As the Assistant Commissioner and the head of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Dr Robert Anderson (1841 – 1918) was the highest ranking police official with direct responsibility for the Jack the Ripper investigation, and this put him […]
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It might seem that fake news is a modern phenomenon, but, in fact, it’s been around for a long, long time. One thing is certain about the Jack the Ripper murders – they most certainly sold newspapers. Indeed, […]
Read ArticleWell, it’s February, it’s freezing cold, and it’s just the sort of weather to stay indoors and find ways of enjoying Victorian history without having to venture out into the winter. Enter, the February 2019 Jack the Ripper Quiz […]
Read ArticleBy the time of the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888, the Metropolitan Police force, under the command of the Chief Commissioner, Sir Charles Warren, was coming under constant criticism in the newspapers. Several high profile cases – […]
Read ArticleIn February, 1889, Thomas Murphy was sentenced to ten years penal servitude for feloniously wounding Police Constable Walter Whittimore (many newspaper reports spelt his name as Whittemore) in the course of a burglary in December, 1888. Constable Whittimore was […]
Read ArticleOn 14th December, 1888, Police Constable Walter Whittimore (the early newspaper reports spell his name as Whittemore), of the Metropolitan Police’s X Division, was shot in the leg whilst trying to apprehend two burglars in the district of North […]
Read ArticleToday, there is a general consensus – though, as with so many things relating to the Whitechapel murders, not a 100% certainty – that the Jack the Ripper atrocities ended with the murder of Mary Kelly, on the […]
Read ArticleDrunkenness was a huge problem – not just in London but throughout the whole of the country – in the latter decades of the 19th century. However, thanks largely to the press coverage that tended to focus on […]
Read ArticleBy the 10th of October, 1888, the Jack the Ripper crimes were being reported upon and pondered upon by newspapers across the country. From Land’s End to John O’Groats, journalists were pondering what sort of person could be […]
Read ArticleThroughout the 1880’s, the belief was widespread that, when it came to tracing the perpetrators of murders in London, the detectives at Scotland Yard were, to put it mildly, lacking in success. SOLVING MURDER CASES In an article […]
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