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I hate to say it, but the year is ticking by, and, before we know it, it will be Christmas again! I only mention it, because I’ve been doing these Jack the Ripper Quizzes now for eight years, […]

The Jack the Ripper letters are well known, and everybody is certainly familiar with at least two of them, the “Dear Boss” letter, and the “From Hell” letter that was sent to Mr George Lusk. However, there were […]

A common cause of death and injury in Victorian London was from fires that regularly broke out in the overcrowded houses of the district. In an era when houses were heated by and lit by naked flames, it […]

There can be no doubt about it, Whitechapel in the 19th century posed all manner of dangers to unsuspecting citizens who might chance into the area in order to mingle with the locals. All manner of cases, such […]

By 1890 the mystery of the disappearances of Mary Seward and Eliza Carter had, to many people, become little more than distant memories, and the horror and consternation their disappearances had caused in the East End of London […]

The problem of feeding the poor in the large cities across Victorian Britain was a constant problem, to the 19th-century authorities and all manner of solutions were put forward that might ease the blight of hunger and starvation […]

Drunkenness was a problem that confronted society throughout much of the 19th century. It was the cause of endless misery, as well as being the driving force behind much of the violence that plagued society. Terrible as the […]

In addition to its being one of the most crime-ridden parts of the Victorian metropolis, Whitechapel was also a place of considerable political agitation, especially towards the end of the century, as the lower classes began to bare […]

Poverty was endemic to the district of Whitechapel throughout much of the 19th century. It is often said that, if the Jack the Ripper murders did nothing else, they at least drew the attention of the public at […]

Fights were extremely common in 19th-century Whitechapel, and the main cause of a large majority of them was caused by drink. However, every so often, the policemen who were obliged to intervene in the drunken brawls that were […]