Author: Richard Jones

By the time of the Jack the Ripper murders, the Metropolitan Police were coming under constant criticism in both the press and Parliament for the heavy handed way in which they were policing London. One newspaper that subjected […]

Welcome to our Jack the Ripper true crime quiz for June 2022. To begin the quiz simply click on the “Take Our Quiz” image below, and you will then be able to start answering the ten questions about […]

Following the evidence given by Mary Malcolm at the inquest into the death of Elizabeth Stride, in which Mrs. Malcolm claimed that the murdered woman was, in fact, her sister, Elizabeth Watts, the Central News Agency, managed to […]

On Wednesday, 3rd October 1888, The Aberdeen Free Press, published a lengthy article on the evidence that had, the previous day, been given by Mary Malcolm, at the inquest into the death of Elizabeth Stride. Contrary to what […]

The Victorian East End of London was, to say the least, notorious. Indeed, newspapers were constantly publishing articles that exposed the conditions under which the people dwelt. On Friday the 3rd of March, 1899, The Torquay Times published […]

We tend to take the delivery of letters to our doors by our postman for granted. After all, postmen have been going about their business since the early Victorian period, and they were as integral part of the […]

The dangers for children in the Victorian East End of London were manifold. Disease was rife. Malnutrition was almost endemic. Drinking the water that was at the time available posed its own threats. And there were also, in […]

One of the most common reasons for people appearing in court in Victorian London was drunkenness. The court reports are ull of people who had been arrested making a nuisance of themselves in the streets whilst under the […]

In its edition of Friday, 5th January 1906, The Western Chronicle reported on the inquest into the death of a guardsman at a party in Spitalfields. The Coroner who presided over the inquest was Wynne Edwin Baxter, the […]

After an absence of several weeks in September, 1888, the Whitechapel murderer suddenly and brutally returned to the streets of the East End of London in the early hours of Sunday the 30th of September, and claimed the […]