Author: Richard Jones

By early January, 1889, although the actual alarm and fear that was associated with the early Whitechapel murders had, to an extent, begun to abate, letters from the supposed perpetrator of the crimes were still being sent, and, […]

Combing through the newspaper reports on Jack the Ripper one does come across some quite bizarre events and escapades in which his name of  turned up. Indeed, by January, 1889, it is more than apparent that the name […]

Friday the 9th of November, 1888, was the day of the murder of Mary Kelly, which took place in her room, at 13, Miller’s Court, which was located off Dorset Street in Spitalfields. That day was also the […]

By the 8th of January, 1889, the persona of the murderer who was now widely known as “Jack the Ripper” was infiltrating the public consciousness far and wide. Indeed, it could almost be argued that the criminal himself […]

The Spitalfields neighbourhood that comprised Flower and Dean Street, Thrawl Street and George Street, was, in the late 19th century, notorious as a hotbed of vice and villainy, and it crops up time and time again in the […]

By early 1889, the name of Jack the Ripper had spread far and wide, and the fear of him was reaching place that were far, far away from the epicentre of the district in which the Whitechapel murders […]

And so a New Year has begun! May I take this opportunity to wish all our dedicated quiz takers a very happy and a prosperous 2022. It is as sure as night follows day, or 2021 is followed […]

As the year 1888 drew to its close, the newspapers were still attempting to fathom the mystery of exactly who the Whitechapel murderer was and what had become of him. They we also still making suggestions about ways […]

On Wednesday 6th December, 1911, The Forres Elgin and Nairn Gazette, Northern Review and Advertiser published the following article about the fear that visitors to London might experience in the streets of London at night. A COUNTRYMAN’S FEAR […]

It is inevitable that a case such as the Jack the Ripper case should have some strange and bizarre facts and stories associated with it, and so, I decided to make a video covering ten of them. Now, […]