Author: Richard Jones

The people who lived in the East End of London in the late 19th century had many terrors to deal with other than Jack the Ripper. Indeed, some of the horrors and dangers that were present every day […]

One thing that was, most certainly, exposed by the horrific spate of Whitechapel murders that occurred between 1888 and 1891, was the horrors of everyday life inside the common lodging houses of Spitalfields and Whitechapel. Indeed, as journalists […]

Whitechapel most certainly had a reputation for all sorts of crime and violence, even before the onset of the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. However, one of the most common forms of crime was that of domestic […]

On the morning of Monday, 7th September, 1891, Walter Hargan, who had been convicted of murdering two men in Kingsland, East London, in September, 1890, was freed from the Sussex County Gaol at Lewes. At his trial the […]

Parts of the Victorian East End of London, were extremely rough enclaves in which crime was commonplace, and gangs brought daily terror to the lives of law-abiding citizens. Even without the Jack the Ripper murders, a trawl through […]

Being a police officer in 19th century London must have been a challenging, not to say, on occasions, terrifying task – and, being a police officer in Victorian Spitalfields must have been the ultimate challenge that would have tested […]

The people of the 19th century East End of London had fought a daily battle for survival with forces seen and unseen for decades, prior to the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. Indeed, in many ways, it […]

In October, 1868, a young woman from Whitechapel, by the name of Louisa Kingherst, was brought up before Mr. Newton, the Magistrate at Worship Police Court, on charges of having obtained money by deception. It transpired that Louisa […]

Goodness me, 2019 is now halfway through. Where does the time go? Still, on the upside, that means we have time to squeeze in another six of our Jack the Ripper quizzes before we bid another year farewell! […]

To understand the police investigation into the Jack the Ripper crimes, it is essential to first understand how the Metropolitan Police of 1888 worked. Thankfully, newspapers were quite intrigued by the police, and numerous articles were published that gave […]