Author: Richard Jones

It is always intriguing to read accounts written by people who had experienced the East End of London as it was around the time of the Whitechapel murders. On Saturday the 7th of March, 1891, The Eastbourne Chronicle […]

It’s time for our second Jack the Ripper quiz of the year. To be honest, our quizzes are pretty straightforward. We don’t ask for any personal information – no name, no email address – you simple have to […]

Although we offer the original Aldgate East Jack the Ripper tour – which has now been going strong since 1982 – we also like to act as a resource on the case. JACK THE RIPPER RESOURCES To that […]

The Jack the Ripper murders certainly did expose the conditions in some of the common lodging houses of Spitalfields, which were frequently portrayed as being little more than dens of iniquity by the Victorian media. It cannot be […]

The murder of Alice Mackenzie took place in Castle Alley, off Whitechapel High Street, in the early hours of the morning of the 17th of July, 1889, and the inquest into her death took place over the course […]

In the early stages of the police hunt for Jack the Ripper, the prostitutes of Whitechapel began telling the police about a sinister character whom they had given the nickname of “Leather Apron”, so called because he was […]

Reading some of the newspaper accounts of the experiences of many people, and particularly those of young girls and women, in London in the 19th century, you would think that people would give the Victorian metropolis a wide […]

In January, 1889, the name of “Jack the Ripper” was turning up in all sorts of places, both in Britain and abroad. There were, for example, reports in many of the newspapers throughout the month that the murderer […]

Early on the morning of Saturday the 15th of January, 1870, an “unfortunate”, whose name was Cecilia Aldridge was murdered at a private hotel in Finsbury Square, by a porter at the establishment whose name was Jacob Spinas. […]

From October, 1888, when the name of “Jack the Ripper” entered the public consciousness, there were numerous reports, all over the country, of men (and, occasionally, women) who preyed on neighbours – and even friends and family – […]