Author: Richard Jones

It’s time for our April 2022 Jack the Ripper quiz. Goodness me, the year is already four months old. So, without further ado, let’s get down to the nitty gritty of another fiendish quiz that has been designed […]

In the early hours of the morning of Tuesday the 3rd of April, 1888, a widow by the name of Emma Elizabeth Smith was attacked at the junction of Brick Lane and Wentworth Street. Although she survived the […]

It was common in the 19th century for police officers to be attacked in the line of duty, and this was a danger that could befall any policeman, no matter where he was in the country. On Saturday […]

One of the most startling revelations about the East End of London during the Victorian period is the high rate of infant mortality. One in five children were destined to die before they reached the age of five […]

The murder of Mary Kelly took place on the 9th of November, 1888, and led to an increase in the terror and panic that had been gripping the East End of London throughout the autumn of that year. […]

In the course of researching the Edgar’s Guide to Jack The Ripper’s East End, I happened upon a photograph of Whitechapel High Street that shows it as it would have appeared around the time of the Whitechapel Murders. […]

Today I thought I would mention a series of guidebooks that I have been involved with writing over the last few years, and which have, I must say, proved an absolute joy to research and to write. EDGAR’S […]

Mention the phrase “Whitechapel atrocity” today – or even the “East End atrocity” – and the chances are that most people will think that you are referring to the Jack the Ripper murders. However, the crimes of Jack […]

On Friday the 11th of April, 1890, despite a dedicated campaign to commute his sentence to one of life imprisonment, Richard Davies was executed for the murder of his father, which had taken place in the January of […]

On Monday, 27th January, 1890, people awoke to news that, on the Saturday night just gone, a terrible and brutal murder had taken place on a lonely stretch of highway between Crewe and the village of Hough. The […]