Author: Richard Jones

It is time for another quiz. To be precise a Jack the Ripper Quiz to test your knowledge of the case. The main question, however, that had to be asked is, how many of the ten challenges can […]

In early November, 1888, the Jack the Ripper murders, and the subsequent press reporting on them, had resulted in Whitechapel being universally regarded as a district where nothing good went on. However, many locals were beginning to resent […]

Although the Jack the Ripper murders are generally agreed to have occurred over a period of just three months in the autumn of 1888, numerous murders that occurred fro many years afterwards were often attributed to the Whitechapel […]

On Tuesday, 24th April 1877, The Sussex Advertiser treated its readers to an idea of the sort of delights they could expect to view if they were to pay a visit to the Metropolitan Police’s Black Museum at […]

By the end of September, 1888, speculation was rife in the newspapers as to who the murderer might be, what sort of person could have carried out such horrific crimes, and why the police had had no success […]

A question that I often ask on my tour, and on our Facebook page is – If we could find out who it was that wrote the Dear Boss Jack the Ripper letter, would we at last know […]

Although the Jack the Ripper murders were, most certainly, dominating the newspaper headlines in October and November, 1888, it did not mean that other violent crimes were not taking place in London. The Morning Post carried the following […]

On Saturday, 19th May, 1888, just a few months before the onset of the Jack the Ripper murders, Robert Bright, apparently without any provocation whatsoever, attempted to murder his wife, Maria. Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper gave a summary of […]

Murderous attacks and murder itself were both extremely common in the East End of London around the time of the Jack the Ripper crimes. The Manchester Evening News  broke the news of one such case on Saturday 18th […]

On Saturday, 17th October, 1908, 18 year old Esther Praager was found murdered at the house in which she was lodging, in Bernard Street, Bloomsbury, in London. The Aberdeen Press and Journal gave details of the murder in […]