One 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 […]
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Here in the East End of London we’re currently enduring the wettest drought I can remember! It doesn’t seem a month ago that we were basking in tropical temperatures, the tube was sweltering hot and London looked like […]
Read ArticleIt seems unbelievable but this June will see the 30th anniversary since I started my Jack the Ripper tour in 1982. Where on earth has the time gone? Mind you, I suppose, in the scheme of things, 30 […]
Read ArticleOne of the questions I am constantly asked when people learn that I have written books on Jack the Ripper is “who do you think it was then?” Indeed, I wait with baited breath for the question to […]
Read ArticleWhitechapel High Street in 1888 The Jack the Ripper Murders took place, mostly, in the vicinity of Whitechapel High Street so this thoroughfare is an extremely important location in the course of any exploration of the area. Inevitably […]
Read ArticleI came across a very intriguing article about the Jack the Ripper Murders in a newspaper article from November 1888. By this time, if we accept that Mary Kelly was the last victim of Jack the Ripper, the […]
Read ArticleDorset Street is no more. Indeed, it has long since vanished in both name and presence, and it is now nothing more than a nameless thoroughfare that squeezes between the White’s Row Car Park on its eastern side, […]
Read ArticleThe Jack the Ripper murders of 1888 were concentrated on a relatively small area of London and they affected a small number of people living in that area. Yet their impact was felt throughout the whole of the […]
Read ArticleThe fact that the Jack the Ripper Murders occurred in one of the poorest quarters of Victorian London meant that, for a period of about fifteen weeks in 1888, the plight 0f the city’s poor was reported in […]
Read ArticleAn intriguing question came up on our Jack the Ripper Tour last night. When we arrived at Dorset Street, where Mary Kelly was murdered on 9th November 1888, a gentleman on the walk asked how we could be […]
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