It’s amazing the type of scams that go on around the streets of London. A few years ago it was the fashion show leather jacket scam. You’d get approached on the streets by someone in a car who […]
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In the course of our walking tour around Jack the Ripper’s London we make our way through several streets that are, quite literally, marinated in London’s past. Even the names some of these wonderful old thoroughfares have a […]
Read ArticleThe programme Ripper Streethas been playing on UK Television over the last few weeks and it tells the story of the hunt for Jack the Ripper. It airs tonight on BBC America and features Matthew Macfadyen as Detective […]
Read ArticleAlthough our walking tour of Jack the Ripper’s London follows a chronological route and dives straight into the atmospheric, and rather sinister, thoroughfares where the ambience of the 1880’s still holds sway, there are other parts of the […]
Read ArticleNot long after Thomas Barnardo’s meeting with Jim Jarvis he [Barnardo] attended a meeting in Islington which was to be addressed by a number of men already working as missionaries in China. However, several of the speakers had […]
Read ArticleOn of the true heroes of the 19th Century East End was Dr. Thomas Barnardo, a man who, by the time of his death in 1905, had cared for and saved more than 60,000 homeless children who would […]
Read ArticleJack the Ripper’s victims shared many things in common and, in a way, they reflected the shortcomings of Victorian society. Early on in the Jack the Ripper case the police were following the line of enquiry that the […]
Read ArticleIn 1888 the East End of London was a veritable melting pot of many different nationalities. It was very much the immigrant district of London, due largely to its proximity to the London Docks. Newly arrived immigrants would […]
Read ArticleIn many ways Victorian society was a forge ahead society. There was a huge belief in people being self sufficient and making their own way in the world. The newly emerged middle class was, in many ways, justly […]
Read ArticleGreetings and salutations and welcome to 2013. This year is a big year as far as Jack the Ripper studies go in that it is 125 years since the murders took place in the East End of London […]
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