Author: Richard Jones

In 1888, there was an acknowledged problem with the number of firearms that people possessed. There were no gun controls as such, and, in consequence, there were so many altercations that involved guns that the press was referring […]

In the early hours of the morning of Saturday the 22nd of August 1891, 29-year-old Percy Greathead, having spent two weeks drinking heavily, had the bright idea of heading to the East End of London in order to […]

The Right Honourable David Williams Wire was, no doubt, getting right honourably sick of the case that had hounded him for over a month now, and he was probably wishing that, for just one day, he could enjoy […]

The press criticism of Lod Mayor Wire rumbled on throughout April, as people sided with Mary Ann Donovan. Her solicitors Messrs Tucker and New began delving into the accusations made against her by the Lord Mayor, The Rev […]

If Lord Mayor Wire thought that his and James Cohen’s character assassination of Mary Ann Donovan was going to end the press opprobrium towards him, he was vey much mistaken. LORD MAYOR WIRE IN TROUBLE “The statement made […]

On Monday the 21st of March, the story of the courtroom exchange between Mary Ann Donovan and David Williams Wire, Lord Mayor and Chief Magistrate of the City of London, was given prominence in newspapers all over the […]

In the 1850s, two people became synonymous with the street sellers of Victorian London. The first was the reporter and social historian Henry Mayhew, whose 1851 study London Labour And the London Poor – in which he observed, […]

It has to be said that, when it came to crime, the Victorian East End could boast a huge variety. It wasn’t just the Jack the Ripper murders – or, for that matter, any form of murder – […]

On Tuesday, 7th March, 1876, Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice visited Whitechapel in order to open a new wing at the London Hospital on Whitechapel Road. According to The Illustrated London News, “It was a high festival for […]

It has always been the attention of the Jack the Ripper tour to bring you as much information as we can on the Whitechapel murders and the Victorian history that surrounds them OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL To that end, […]