Recently I posed a question on our Facebook page which, I have to say, was intended to be somewhat tongue in cheek. That question was – Who would win in a fight between Jack the Ripper and Sweeney […]
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You might recall that, just over a week ago, we set a little quiz about that Jack the Ripper mystery and Victorian history in general. The quiz itself was purely for fun, and the answers were all located […]
Read ArticleBy the second week of October 1888 the streets of Whitechapel and Spitalfields had seen an influx of police officers, both uniformed and plain clothed, as the police threshed about, seemingly in the dark, desperately trying to catch […]
Read ArticleToday in 1888 the police were desperately seeking a lead that might shed any light on the identity of the perpetrator of the recent series of murders that had taken place in the East End of London. The […]
Read ArticleIt was around this day in the autumn of 1888 that the Whitechapel Murderer was given a name. The newspapers were buzzing with all sorts of rumours about the killer’s identity and motives. Predominant amongst the theories in […]
Read ArticleOne of the questions we often get asked is “why is he called Jack the Ripper?” The honest answer to the question is that he wasn’t really called Jack the Ripper. Indeed, the name itself was probably the […]
Read ArticleOne of the strangest things I have come across in all my years of conducting Jack the Ripper walks is the number of people throughout the world who think that Jack the Ripper never actually existed. Now I […]
Read ArticleMr George Lusk was the president of the Mile End Vigilance Committee, and organisation which was set up on the 10th September 1888 in the wake of the murder of Annie Chapman, the second of Jack the Ripper’s […]
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