Author: Richard Jones

The Jack the Ripper murders not only drew worldwide attention to the districts of Whitechapel and Spitalfields in the East End of London, but they also focussed the attention of newspapers across the globe on the Metropolitan Police, […]

On the same day that the news of the Jack the Ripper murder of Mary Kelly broke, it was also announced that Sir Charles Warren, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, had resigned. It is often suggested that the reason […]

Florence Fenwick Miller (1854 – 1935) was an English journalist, author and social reformer of the late 19th and early 20th century. Although she studied medicine at Edinburgh University, she was unable to complete her degree on account of […]

By November, 1888, the radical press had discovered that it could use the Jack the Ripper murders, and the police’s inability to bring the perpetrator of the atrocities to justice, to heap ignominy upon the head of their old […]

One of the problems that the Victorian journalists faced, when trying to report on the Whitechapel murders, was that the police were reluctant to share any information with the press about their investigation into the crimes. There were […]

The Jack the Ripper murders were most certainly shocking, and they caused a huge amount of fear and panic in the East End of London. Yet, there was another killer loose on the streets of London at the […]

By Monday, October 8th, 1888, the two most recent murders – those of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes, both of which had occurred in the early hours of the 30th of September, 1888 – had led to the […]

Justice was the weekly newspaper of the Social Democratic Foundation, an organisation which had been established in 1884, and one which had been actively involved in the Trafalgar Square political meetings and unrest of 1886 and 1887. As a […]

It’s time for another quiz. I hope those little grey are tingling, jumping, bumping and connecting, because, as the year races towards its end – another two quizzes and it will be Christmas – the dedicated “professors” in […]

As the Whitechapel murders intensified, along with the fear and panic that accompanied the aftermath of each atrocity, more and more attention was paid to the part played by the district in which the crimes were occurring in […]