Author: Richard Jones

On Friday the 26th of October, 1888, there were several reports in the newspapers that demonstrate how the name of “Jack the Ripper” had caught on, not just in the East End of London but also in places […]

There’s been a strange development in the study of the Jack the Ripper case in recent years. A tendency has crept in to ignore the facts, and, instead, to concentrate on feelings. Now, to be honest, this isn’t […]

On Monday the 22nd of October, 1888, The Edinburgh Evening News, published a roundup of events concerning the Whitechapel murders. The story revealed that numerous letters, purporting to come from the killer, had been sent and received, and, […]

In its edition of Saturday the 20th of October, 1888, The Dundee Courier published a summary of the progress that had been made with regard to tracing the perpetrator of the East End atrocities who, by this time, […]

Joseph Hall Richardson (1857 – 1945) was a stockbroker turner journalist who in 1927 published his reminiscences in his book  From the City To Fleet Street. The Aberdeen Press and Journal introduced its readers to the volume in […]

On Saturday, 10th June, 1911, Judge Bacon, a man who had become famous in Whitechapel for his witty and acerbic way of dealing with litigants and witnesses who appeared before his at the Whitechapel County Court, died. The […]

One of the buildings that we encounter on our nightly tour of the East End of London is the former Providence Row Night Refuge. Although the building is now student accommodation, the Providence Row charity is still going […]

Following the murder of Annie Chapman, which took place on the morning of the 8th of September, 1888, people living in the neighbourhood where the murders were occurring began talking of their belief that the police response to […]

John Burns (1858 – 1943) was a prominent trade unionist and politician who was very active during the dock strike of 1889, during which time he found himself, on one notable occasion, arrested on suspicion of having been […]

Recently I began work on what I though would be an easy YouTube video to produce – a video about Aaron Kosminski. Just by way of a brief recap – Aaron Kosminski is reputed to have been the […]