Author: Richard Jones

One of the most fascinating things about studying the Jack the Ripper case is the opportunity it affords to gain a sneak peak into the everyday lives of some of the honest, and not so honest, folk of […]

Annie Chapman, whose murder took place in the backyard of 29 Hanbury Street, on 8th September 188, is thought to have been the second of Jack the Ripper’s victims. It was with her death that the general unease […]

As has been mentioned in many of our recent blogs on the Jack the Ripper murders, the newspapers were falling over themselves as they attempted to bring as many of the facts about the killing spree to their […]

On Tuesday 2nd October 1888 the newspapers were bursting with the latest information on the two new murders that had occurred in the early hours of the 30th September. The press criticism of the Metropolitan Police showed no […]

Since the 30th September 1888 was a Sunday, few newspapers went to press that day and so Londoners at large only heard rumours of another two murders in the East End of London that had happened that day. […]

As you make your way around the East End of London you encounter many locations that are still much as they were in 1888 at the time of the Jack the Ripper murders. These wonderful locations are almost […]

Adam Wood has, over the years, made a huge contribution to Jack the Ripper studies and to the study of Victorian and East End history in general. He has published scholarly  articles on major players in the investigation, […]

It was on this day (September 24th) in 1888 that George Bernard Shaw’s letter entitled Blood Money to Whitechapel was published by The Star newspaper. Today, of course, the name of George Bernard Shaw is famous throughout the […]

On Saturday 22nd September 1888, The East London Advertiser reported that the inquest into the murder of Mary Nichols – which had taken place in Buck’s Row, Whitechapel on August 31st 1888 – had resumed on the previous Monday. […]

One of the things that many people who join our nightly tour notice is just how much wonderful and colourful street art adorns the walls of the buildings that we pass as we go round. So, for today’s […]