Author: Richard Jones

On Wednesday the 19th of September 1888, Eddowes’s Shrewsbury Journal provided its readers with two very different views about the efficiency of the Metropolitan Police in London:- TWO OPINIONS OF THE POLICE The Spectator does not see that […]

The former mortuary building in the churchyard of St George In The East is a truly curious little relic of times gone by. It is somewhat dilapidated, and the fact it is still standing is something of a […]

The police came in for an awful lot of criticism over the course of the Whitechapel murders. The newspapers – or, to be precise, the radical newspapers – were on their case almost from the outset, mostly as […]

On Monday the 10th of September, 1888, with the East End of London still reeling from the shock of the murder of Annie Chapman, which had taken place two days previous, The Pall Mall Gazette published a roundup […]

As somebody who has been conducting Jack the Ripper tours now for over 40 years, I have lost count of the number of times that a member of one of my tour groups has approached me, and informed […]

Welcome to another Jack the Ripper Quiz. As per our usual quizzes, the September 2022 offering consists of 10 questions pertaining to the Jack the Ripper crimes in particular or the Whitechapel murders in general. There are questions […]

Although it wasn’t foggy on the nights when any of the Jack the Ripper murders occurred, fog was a constant problem for the residents of Victorian London. As well as causing problems for the smooth running of the […]

In the wake of the murder of Annie Chapman, which took place in the backyard of number 29, Hanbury Street on the 8th of September 1888, newspapers began taking a close look at the district in which the […]

The extent to which the Whitechapel murders permeated the consciousness of society as a whole is somewhat surprising, to say the least. Indeed, with the publication of the Dear Boss Jack the Ripper letter, in early October 1888, […]

On Tuesday the 13th of November, 1888, with the Jack the Ripper murders causing panic in the East End of London, the local M.P., Mr. Samuel Montagu, addressed a committee in the House of Commons, pondering why an […]