Author: Richard Jones

One things that crops up time and time again as you read the various reports on the Whitechapel murders, is the number of people who had been prophesying that, unless something was done to improve the appalling and […]

The following article, concerning what seems to have been a senseless murder that took place in south London, appeared in The Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser on Wednesday the 1st of November, 1876:- MURDER IN LONDON A most […]

On Saturday the 10th of November, 1888, a reporter from The Evening News, who had visited Dorset Street, where the murder of Mary Kelly had taken place the previous day, published the following report:- THE LATEST HORRIBLE MURDER […]

The murder of Mary Kelly took place in he room, 13 Miller’s Court, off Dorset Street, in Spitalfields. As news of this latest atrocity began to spread throughout London, journalists began descending on the vicinity in order to […]

There were many horrible murders that were reported in the Victorian newspapers, and many of them are still shocking to us today. In 1863, a case was heard that was, in many respects, reminiscent of the horrific murder […]

One of the questions that any investigation into the Jack the Ripper crimes inevitably throws up is, how did the Whitechapel murderer escape from the scenes of his atrocities? HIS ESCAPE ROUTE FROM BUCK’S ROW The latest video […]

Although the Victorian era is often portrayed as being one of endless possibilities, as Britain surged ahead of the rest of the World as an industrial and financial powerhouse, this expansion came at a cost. Indeed, more than […]

Everyday life in the Victorian East End was, for many of the inhabitants, hard, and they fought a daily battle for survival. Violent deaths were frequently featured in the newspapers of the day, be they husbands murdering wives, […]

Murder was extremely common in the 19th century metropolis, and the murders of prostitutes especially so. Indeed, the newspapers of the age testify to a huge number of such crimes. The Newcastle Journal, on Saturday the 6th of […]

For those seeking tales of true crimes, the Victorian newspapers provide a trove of stories that show some dreadful – as well as some very mundane – homicides. The Jack the Ripper murders aside, you can’t help thinking […]