Author: Richard Jones

Unbelievably, it is now February 2016 – where does the time go? Over the last 12 months there has been a huge amount of change in the East End of London, especially around Spitalfields. It was this seismic […]

One of the most tragic things about studying the oceans of newspaper ink that was expounded in the reporting of the case, is the number of ordinary people, men women and children, who found themselves caught up in […]

It is most interesting to study press reports on the Jack the Ripper murders, as it helps us to glean an impression of how the murders were perceived by the community at large, both at the time they […]

One of the great things about the streets of Brick Lane and Spitalfields, through which we wend our nightly way on the Jack the Ripper tour, is the amount of urban street art that has appeared on the […]

As the last week of the first month of 1889 approached, reports were circulating in the press that Jack the Ripper was on his travels. Indeed, if the following article, that appeared in the Dundee Courier today – […]

Sergeant Stephen White (1854 – 1919) was one of the police officers who investigated the Whitechapel murders in 1888. A member of the Metropilitan Polices H-Division, he was the officer who was tasked with interviewing Matthew Packer, the […]

Goodness gracious me, it’s 2016 already. It’s also been almost a month since our last Jack the Ripper quiz. Nay, it was last year that we last posted one of our cunning collection of conundrums, also known as […]

Satire can be very biting. It can also get its message across in a truly subtle way. So, today I thought I’d digress from things rippery and, instead, bring you one of my favourite cartoons of all time. […]

In January 1888, a murder took place in London that, in some ways, could be said to have heralded the Whitechapel murders that would so shock Victorian society later that year. A SOBER AND TEMPERATE WOMAN The murder […]

The Whitechapel murders – under which the Jack the Ripper crimes are featured – took place in the East End of London in the autumn of 1888. But what was the area like at the time? In this […]