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In its edition of Saturday the 20th of October, 1888, The Dundee Courier published a summary of the progress that had been made with regard to tracing the perpetrator of the East End atrocities who, by this time, […]

Joseph Hall Richardson (1857 – 1945) was a stockbroker turner journalist who in 1927 published his reminiscences in his book  From the City To Fleet Street. The Aberdeen Press and Journal introduced its readers to the volume in […]

On Saturday, 10th June, 1911, Judge Bacon, a man who had become famous in Whitechapel for his witty and acerbic way of dealing with litigants and witnesses who appeared before his at the Whitechapel County Court, died. The […]

One of the buildings that we encounter on our nightly tour of the East End of London is the former Providence Row Night Refuge. Although the building is now student accommodation, the Providence Row charity is still going […]

Following the murder of Annie Chapman, which took place on the morning of the 8th of September, 1888, people living in the neighbourhood where the murders were occurring began talking of their belief that the police response to […]

John Burns (1858 – 1943) was a prominent trade unionist and politician who was very active during the dock strike of 1889, during which time he found himself, on one notable occasion, arrested on suspicion of having been […]

Recently I began work on what I though would be an easy YouTube video to produce – a video about Aaron Kosminski. Just by way of a brief recap – Aaron Kosminski is reputed to have been the […]

By the 6th of October, 1888, the newspapers were attempting to ascertain what sort of person the Whitechapel murderer might be. There was a belief that he might be an educated person who was a homicidal lunatic. There […]

When the Whitechapel murders exposed the horror of the social conditions in large parts of London, and especially in the East End of the Victorian metropolis, newspapers began looking for a possible moral to the atrocities. The Eastern […]

Welcome to the Jack the Ripper October 2021 True Crime Quiz. Yes, it’s October already and the year is heading into its last three months with what seems like alarming speed. But, do not worry, there is an […]