On Saturday, December 20th, 1924, the following article appeared in The Sphere in which the author, Thomas Burke, took readers on a nighttime wander around the streets of Spitalfields. In the introduction, the editor explained that, for the subject […]
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On Friday, 20th January, 1889, Police Constable Graham, of the Gateshead police force, in the north of England, was murdered, and Edward Wilkinson was charged with the crime. That very night, the Mayor of Newcastle received a letter in […]
Read ArticleOne of the issues that was being discussed by the Victorian press in the years leading up to the Jack the Ripper murders, was the reliability of witness statements in court, especially with regards to the evidence given […]
Read ArticleEither late in the evening of Thursday, 12th January, 1899, or early on the Friday morning of 13th January, 1899, a lady named Emily Wood was, supposedly, attacked as she made her way along Commercial Road in Whitechapel. She […]
Read ArticleAlois Szemeredy claimed that he was a “military surgeon.” In 1892, he was arrested in Vienna, on suspicion of murder and robbery, but he committed suicide whilst being held for questioning. In late September, 1892, articles began appearing […]
Read ArticleBarely has the year 1889 got underway than the residents of the East End of London were learning of another outrage that had taken place in their midst, this time in Limehouse. On Thursday, 10th January, 1889, John […]
Read ArticleWell, 2019 has now, well and truly arrived and, to celebrate, here is our first Jack the Ripper Quiz of the year. For those of you, and the number grows each month, who are seasoned veterans of our […]
Read ArticleThe area now occupied by Bethnal Green Gardens, Paradise Row Gardens, and Museum Gardens, actually comprises the remnants of the area’s medieval green, which was known as “the Bethnal Green Poor’s Land.” From the 1860’s onwards, there was […]
Read ArticleDorset Street, where Jack the Ripper carried out his final and most gruesome murder, that of Mary Kelly, on 9th November, 1888, was frequently in the news in Victorian times, and, it has to be said, most of […]
Read ArticleAs January, 1889, began, and the spectre of Jack the Ripper began to diminish in the East End of London, many people were wondering what had happened to the fiend that had terrorised the enclaves of Whitechapel and […]
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