Author: Richard Jones

Today is the 150th anniversary of the Staplehurst Railway disaster, a calamity that saw loss of life and serious injury to many of the passengers.  But, it also came close to exposing the secret life of the greatest […]

So, you think you know about Jack the Ripper? Why not try our latest quiz and test your knowledge to see if you can answer the 10 questions we have set about the infamous Whitechapel Murders? There’s no […]

How good are you at solving puzzles? How well do you know the locations at which the infamous Jack the Ripper murders took place? Well, today we’ve got the ultimate challenge for you. Below we’ve listed the locations of […]

Those who join us for our nightly tour of the Jack the Ripper murder sites might, as they are waiting for the tour to begin, glance briefly over Whitechapel High Street and notice a man sitting the wrong […]

Had the Victorian Police achieved their objective, and had actually brought Jack the Ripper to justice, the he would almost certainly have faced the death penalty and would have been hanged. Of course, with over 126 years having […]

Now, this one’s hard! I devised it and I found it a struggle to solve it! So, can you beat the clock (you have 15 minutes) to get the names of four of the detectives who hunted Jack […]

Having resolved that Sherlock Holmes must die, and having decided on Switzerland as the country that could provide a suitable backcloth against which to do the deed, Arthur Conan Doyle began planning the dramatic demise of his creation. […]

Today you have the opportunity to test your knowledge on the Jack the Ripper crimes. We have designed a 10 question quiz that will allow you to see how much you know about the Whitechapel Murders. Most of […]

One of the most memorable images of the Jack the Ripper murders, aside from the haunting photographs of the victims themselves, has to be the image of the phantom figure that appeared in the Punch article entitled “The Nemesis […]

By 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson, were proving hugely popular and had achieved a level of success that Conan Doyle could only have dreamed about a few years earlier. But, as […]