Author: Richard Jones

As the panic over the Jack the Ripper murders increased, in October, 1888, the demand for news concerning the atrocities was such that newspapers covering the crimes could sell for several times their value. On Friday the 5th […]

In January, 1875, forty-five-year-old Edward Hanratty, a railway worker, died after a long illness. At the subsequent inquest into his death, it transpired that, in his final days, he had been treated by a man who had been […]

One of the intriguing things about searching for stories to do the the Jack the Ripper Whitechapel murders is the number of tangents it can lead you off in. You can be delving into a particular story, following […]

A question that we often discuss on the Jack the Ripper tour is, would modern methods of policing have caught Jack the Ripper had they been available to the Victorian police in 1888? It is an intriguing questions […]

At the height of the Jack the Ripper scare, with more and more outcry for the police to be given more powers in order to bring the perpetrator of the Whitechapel outrages to justice, The St James’s Gazette, […]

The East End of London held a great fascination for many people who visited Victorian London, and no trip to London was considered complete without a visit to its streets, courts and institutions. The Newbury Weekly News and […]

Pearson’s Weekly, on Thursday the 27th of April 1911 took a close look at how the children of Whitechapel entered the City of London to search the dustbins for anything that could be sold or which might prove […]

March is upon us and the year is simply marching by. It seems hard to believe that we are now three months into 2022, but, as the current parlance goes, it is what it is! As we emerge […]

In early October, 1888, London, and the nation at large, had been deeply shocked by the murders of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes, both of which had taken place in the early hours of Sunday, 30th September. All […]

The last name on the Whitechapel Murders file was that of Frances Coles, who was murdered on Friday the 13th of February, 1891. Her funeral took place on Wednesday the 25th of February, 1891, and, in its next […]