We’re on the give away trail again and this time you have the opportunity to win one of our Gift Vouchers that will entitle yourself and three friends to take our world famous Jack the Ripper Tour on […]
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Stoke-on-Trent is not the sort of place you’d readily associate with Jack the Ripper and yet recently it became the scene of the murder of the woman who, many believe, was the last of his victims, Mary Kelly. […]
Read ArticleOur Charles Dickens London Walking Tours are proving hugely popular and our next one sets of from Chancery Lane Underground Station tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11.30am. The great thing about these tours is that the group numbers are nice […]
Read ArticleToday in 1888 the police were desperately seeking a lead that might shed any light on the identity of the perpetrator of the recent series of murders that had taken place in the East End of London. The […]
Read ArticleToday, September 30th, is the anniversary of the murders of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes. So what better night to take a Jack the Ripper Tour through the very streets where the murders occurred. As the 29th September […]
Read ArticleToday, being Saturday, I thought I’d have a bit of fun with the current press coverage over Andrew Mitchell and his exchange with a police officer at the gates of Downing Street. Needless to say, the following piece […]
Read ArticleOn 28th September 1888 there had been no Whitechapel Murders since the killing of Annie Chapman on 8TH September 1888. The press were discussing various theories that had come out of the inquest into the inquest into Annie […]
Read ArticleIt was around this day in the autumn of 1888 that the Whitechapel Murderer was given a name. The newspapers were buzzing with all sorts of rumours about the killer’s identity and motives. Predominant amongst the theories in […]
Read ArticleRichard’s Dickens Tours of London go live today with the first one A Journey Through Dickens London setting off from Chancery Lane at 11.30am. By way of introduction, with Charles Dickens you are talking the undisputed chronicler of […]
Read ArticleThis Wednesday sees the launch of our Charles Dickens London Walking Tours which look at Dickens life and works and visit places that featured in both. One of the intriguing things about the tours is the glimpse they […]
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