Author: Richard Jones

By the summer of 1087, William the Conqueror, like so many gentlemen of a certain age, was trying desperately to come to terms with the onset of the dreaded middle age spread. He therefore retreated to his power […]

The major story being covered in the newspapers on Sunday the 9th of September 1888, was the murder of Annie Chapman, which had taken place the previous day. However, other crimes were happening throughout the country, including a […]

One of the first places we pass on our nightly tour of Jack the Ripper’s East End haunts is the White Hart, on Whitechapel High Street. On the exterior wall of the pub is a board which informs […]

It’s time for the September 2023 Jack the Ripper Quiz. If you are a seasoned quiz taker, then the chances are that you may not need any guidance on how the quiz works. In fact, and to be […]

On Saturday the 1st of September, 1888, newspapers across the country were giving a great deal of coverage to the most recent murder in Whitechapel, that had taken place in the early hours of August the 31st. There […]

Th East End of London was a teeming mass of humanity, and, with so many people crammed into the district, it is inevitable that a huge number of ghostly tales should, over the years, have emerged from its […]

On Friday the 23rd of November, 1888, The Flintshire County Herald treated its readers to  summary of a performance that had been given in London by the celebrated thought-reader Stuart Cumberland:- THOUGHT-READING AND THE DETECTION OF CRIME At […]

Approaching the Jack the Ripper murders with tunnel vision – what I mean by that is just focussing on the Whitechapel atrocities – can mean that one misses so much of the everyday life that was going on […]

If the truth be told, if you lived in Whitechapel or Spitalfields in 1888, you were probably more in danger of dying from cholera, typhoid, measles, smallpox, being trampled by a horse, falling into the River Thames in […]

It is often stated that Jack the Ripper was the first modern serial killer. There is even a 2006 documentary titled “Jack the Ripper:- The First Serial Killer.” NOT THE FIRST SERIAL KILLER However, he was unequivocally not […]