On Tuesday the 20th of November, 1888, the big question being asked by newspapers across the country – and, for that matter, by almost everybody who lived in the country – was who is Jack the Ripper? That […]
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Victorian Whitechapel often receives a great deal of negative coverage in histories that retell the story of the Whitechapel murders and the Jack the Ripper crimes. It is certain that parts of Whitechapel were pretty bad when it […]
Read ArticleIn early October, 1888, the news about Whitechapel was dominated by the murders of Elizabeth Stride (in Berner Street) and Catherine Eddowes (in Mitre Square), both of which had taken place in the early hours of the morning […]
Read ArticleOur Jack the Ripper nightly walking tour has been going now since 1982 – that’s forty years this year! Since then we have introduced thousands of people to the streets of Whitechapel and Spitalfields. A few years ago, […]
Read ArticleDr Francis Tumblety (1833 – 1903) is one of the more eccentric of the all the various suspects whose names have been forward in connection with the Jack the Ripper crimes. In fact, its is safe to say […]
Read ArticleOne of the least likely suspects in the eternal hunt for the perpetrator of the Whitechapel murders, who we now know as Jack the Ripper is Prince Albert Edward Victor, the Duke of Clarence, grandson to Queen Victoria […]
Read ArticleThe 19th century East End of London was an area in which many mysteries unfolded, in addition to the major cases such as the Jack the Ripper murders. All manner of crimes and unexplained happenings in the area […]
Read ArticleThere can be no doubt that Victorian Whitechapel – and the 19th century East End of London for that matter – was portrayed and perceived as being a hotbed of villainy. It frequently happened that those who lived […]
Read ArticleIt is fascinating to be able to venture back and walk the streets of the East End of London as they were in the Victorian era. Of course, it is impossible to actually do so physically; but thanks […]
Read ArticleThe East London Observer, on Saturday the 14th of December, 1872, carried the story of the murder of an unknown woman that had taken place in Whitechapel:- MURDER IN WHITECHAPEL “At the Thames Police-court on Wednesday Jean Forzalez, […]
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