Author: Richard Jones

I recently came across an article in the Dundee Courier, dated Wednesday 26th December 1888, which spoke of Dr Tumblety as a suspect for the Whitechapel atrocities that had occurred in the autumn of that year. The article bore […]

‘Tis the season to be jolly. The season of mince pies, mulled wine and general overindulgence. But, it is also the season for sending and receiving Christmas cards and so, in today’s blog, I thought I’d digress away […]

During a recent delve into the newspaper archives, I came across several articles concerning a murder in Hyde Park in 1915 which bore certain similarities to at least one of the Whitechapel murders of 1888. Indeed, one intriguing […]

One of the questions we get asked an awful lot on our Facebook Page is “what do the murder sites look like today?” The sad thing is that the majority of the scenes of the Jack the Ripper […]

Today sees the anniversary of a murder that, although perhaps not on a par with the Jack the Ripper crimes, most certainly did shock the people of late 19th century London. The victim of this particular atrocity was […]

The Metropolitan Police force was founded by Sir Robert Peel in 1829. Initially, there was a great deal of distrust of these new Bobbies on the beat as people were worried that they would become a surveillance, military […]

At 25 years of age, Mary Kelly was the youngest of Jack the Ripper’s victims. She’s also the one that we know the least about. Researchers have been able to trace huge amounts of information about the other […]

Whenever you see those vivid black and white press illustrations depicting the Jack the Riper murders, there is a very good chance that they came from The Illustrated Police News, a newspaper which had been founded in 1864 and […]

In a previous blog we looked at the Whitechapel murders through the eyes of the reporters and artists from The Illustrated Police News who were tasked with conveying an impression of the scenes, the horror and the surroundings […]

When the Whitechapel Murders began in 1888, photography was beginning to catch on as a medium by which to explore the streets and places of cities the World over. Photographers were beginning to record for posterity the streets […]