Author: Richard Jones

Dorset Street, in Spitalfields, is now universally known as the street in which Mary Kelly, who many believe was the last victim of Jack the Ripper, was murdered on the 9th of November 1888. It was also the […]

It is easy to miss the Aldgate Pump. Indeed, many people who pass it take any notice of it. And yet, the venerable London antiquity is an important part of the history and the folklore of the East […]

Fake news and conspiracy theories are nothing new. In fact, they have probably been around since the news began, which was goodness knows when! In the first half of the 19th century, as the Industrial Revolution brought untold […]

What did Jack the Ripper look like? The honest answer to that question is, we don’t know, as we do not know who Jack the Ripper was, and there are as many descriptions of the perpetrator of the […]

In many ways, the Victorian age was a very different one from our own. But, in other ways, it was very like ours. Bullying was as big a problem then, as it is today, and the newspapers the […]

Woohoo, it’s time for another Jack the Ripper Quiz. Yes, indeed, the March 2023 challenge is ready to, well, err, challenge you. TAKE THE MARCH 2023 JACK THE RIPPER QUIZ So, if you know how our quizzes work […]

On the far eastern fringe of London, you come to the Green Man Interchange, formerly known as the Green man roundabout and named after the Green Man Inn, a coaching Inn that stood on the main London to […]

It would appear that, when the detectives of the Victorian Metropolitan Police went on short breaks, they found it all but impossible to switch off completely. Indeed, if the following story, which appeared in The Illustrated Police News […]

The 19th-century East End of London could be a harsh and unforgiving district. Not only were the living conditions tough, but crime  – often of a violent nature – was commonplace. It could be a terrible place for […]

Although the main letter in the saga of the Whitechapel murders has to have been the infamous “Dear Boss” missive – I say main because it was signed Jack the Ripper and thus gave the murderer thane name […]