Author: Richard Jones

By October, 1888, with the number of Whitechapel murders having increased with the murders of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowesm both of which took place in the early hours of the 30th of September, 1888, the people of […]

In 1879, Parliament passed the Summary Jurisdiction Act, which came into force on the 1st of January, 1880. The day before the Act came into effect, The Derby Daily Telegraph, in its edition of Wednesday, 31st December, treated […]

Drunkenness was a huge problem in Victorian London, especially amongst the poor as it was about the only way in which they could hope to forget the nightmare of the harshness of their everyday living conditions. It was […]

On the evening of Wednesday 26th September, news broke that a man had walked into a London police station and confessed to having murdered Annie Chapman, whose body had been found in the backyard of 29, Hanbury Street, […]

On April 3rd, 1892, The St Paul Sunday Globe, published the following article, which demonstrates how the Jack the Ripper crimes, of 1888, had so captured the imagination of people the world over, that many criminals, murderers and otherwise, were […]

By mid-November, 1888, the Jack the Ripper murders had, most certainly, attracted the attention of people all over the world. The fear and panic, that had marked the early stages of the atrocities, had all but given way […]

In February, 1908, several American newspapers published an article on life in the East End of London, which had been written by leading temperance campaigner Lady Henry Somerset (1851-1921). The article painted a vivid picture of the living conditions […]

The London police came in for a huge amount of criticism for their inability to solve the Whitechapel murders mystery and bring jack the Ripper tour justice. From early September, 1888, the detectives on the case ere subjected […]

Throughout the autumn of 1888, many men decided to become amateur detectives and headed for the streets of the East End of London to join the hunt for Jack the Ripper. The police had mixed feelings about these […]

On September 10th, 1889, a woman’s torso was discovered under a railway arch in Pinchin Street in Whitechapel. Given that this was the area in which the murders of 1888 had caused so much consternation the previous year, […]