Author: Richard Jones

On the evening of Tuesday, 3rd September, 1878, the pleasure steamer the Princess Alice, under the command of Captain Grinstead, was returning to London from Sheerness, loaded with between 700 and 800 passengers who had enjoyed sundry day […]

It’s time for another of our quizzes, and this month we are switching to a different format. You no longer have to enter your name, but simply have to scroll down through the questions and decide which answer […]

The Whitechapel murders of Jack the Ripper led to a huge amount of press coverage all over the world, and readers, thousands of miles away from the epicentre of the crimes became fascinated by the district in which […]

Given the amount of press coverage of the East End of London – both before and after the increased newspaper coverage that resulted from form the Jack the Ripper murders – one could be forgiven that the people […]

The Jack the Ripper crimes could be said to have set a benchmark by which future murderers were judged. Indeed, for many years after the Whitechapel murders, homicides all over the world were being compared to them, and […]

London has always been a major draw to people from all over the country, and from all over the world. In the 19th century, people arrived in the Victorian metropolis for all manner of reasons, some of them […]

August, 1888, was the month when the people of the East End of London began to realise that something untoward was occurring in Whitechapel. That “something”, as we now know, with hindsight, was the start of the murders […]

Reading through the accounts of Victorian inquests that took place in Whitechapel, it quickly becomes apparent that life could prove difficult for any of the residents, irrespective of their class or station in life. Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, on […]

Although the Jack the Ripper murders are today about the only homicides of the periods to be remembered, there were many other such crimes during the twelve or so weeks over which the murders stretched. One murder, the […]

Today, I am joined by a very special guest former Murder Squad detective Roy Tyzack, who joined the Metropolitan Police Service in the early 1970s and was actually based in Whitechapel from 1975 until the early 1980s, when […]