Author: Richard Jones

When you arrive at Aldgate East Underground Station for our Jack the Ripper Tour, why not spend a few moments on the platform to look for some of the curious artworks that can be found on the tiled […]

On Sunday, April 22nd, 1934, The Sunday Post Magazine, in Washington, published the following article which looked back at the career of Frederick Porter Wensley (1865 – 1949), who had joined the Metropolitan Police as a constable in […]

Let’s travel back to Victorian Whitechapel in the year 1869. Our guide for this time-slip journey will be the Penny Illustrated Paper, which, on Saturday, 1st May, 1869, presented its readers with an article that, whilst lamenting the […]

With the seeming cessation of the Jack the Ripper murders, following the murder of Mary Kelly, on 9th November, 1888, the police and public alike sought to find the answer to the mystery of who the perpetrator of […]

A constant theme that runs through the Victorian newspapers around the time of the Whitechapel murders was, did the depiction of violent crime in popular culture have an effect on the mental health of some of the more […]

It’s Quiz Time! Yes, indeed; the February 2020 Jack the Ripper Quiz is now up, and is ready for our quiz aficionados to get to grips with. Obviously, if you are regular taker of our monthly challenges then […]

On July 28th, 1902, John Macdonald, aged twenty-four, murdered an elderly gentleman named James Groves, by cutting his throat in Old Castle Street, Whitechapel. This was the same thoroughfare in which Alice McKenzie had been murdered in July, […]

The 3rd of February, 1889 was a Sunday, so only a handful of newspapers hit the stands that day. The Jack the Ripper scare was still strong in London, albeit the terror and panic that had been present […]

As the end of September, 1888 approached, the fear of the Whitechapel murderer had begun to recede, there having been no fresh outrage since the murder of Annie Chapman on the 8th September, 1888. As the nervousness began […]

The murder of Alice Mckenzie, in July, 1889, brought renewed press interest in the Whitechapel murders. However, the several newspaper reporters noticed a marked difference in the reaction from the public to that of the reaction to the […]