There is now a sign up in Mitre Square – where the murder of Catherine Eddowes, the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper, was murdered on 30th September 1888 – suggesting that it is to close as a […]
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Jack the Ripper
Hunting for Jack the Ripper throughout the East End of London can be a, to say the least, frustrating task. There you are, following up a clue or a sighting, thinking you’re getting close to a possible solution […]
Read ArticleCharles Dickens most certainly knew the East End of London well. Indeed, had he not died in June 1870, 18 years before the commencement of the Whitechapel Murders, then there is little doubt that, by now, an author […]
Read ArticleIt is a sad fact of the Jack the Ripper murders that his victims – Mary Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Kelly – often get forgotten in the annual rush to hunt down and […]
Read ArticleRecently 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 […]
Read ArticleThe programme Ripper Streethas been playing on UK Television over the last few weeks and it tells the story of the hunt for Jack the Ripper. It airs tonight on BBC America and features Matthew Macfadyen as Detective […]
Read ArticleAlthough our walking tour of Jack the Ripper’s London follows a chronological route and dives straight into the atmospheric, and rather sinister, thoroughfares where the ambience of the 1880’s still holds sway, there are other parts of the […]
Read ArticleJack the Ripper’s victims shared many things in common and, in a way, they reflected the shortcomings of Victorian society. Early on in the Jack the Ripper case the police were following the line of enquiry that the […]
Read ArticleIn many ways Victorian society was a forge ahead society. There was a huge belief in people being self sufficient and making their own way in the world. The newly emerged middle class was, in many ways, justly […]
Read ArticleGreetings and salutations and welcome to 2013. This year is a big year as far as Jack the Ripper studies go in that it is 125 years since the murders took place in the East End of London […]
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