As mentioned in a previous article, in 1888 it was quite the fashion for‘respectable’ upper and middle class Londoners to go ’slumming’ in the East End and this poverty tourism saw thousands of well-to-do men and women being […]
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Yesterday’s article looked at whether Jack the Ripper’s early crimes, the murders of Mary Nichols and Annie Chapman, suggested that their killer demonstrated any medical knowledge. Today’s article looks at the last three vicitms, Catherine Eddowes, Elizabeth Stride […]
Read ArticleThere is a great deal of debate over whether or not Jack the Ripper possessed any medical knowledge. The question of whether he did or not was raised several times during the inquests into the deaths of the victims, and, although several […]
Read ArticleAt 1am on 30th September 1888 Louis Deimshutz , who along with his wife, ran the International Polish and Jewish Working Men’s Socialist Club in Berner Street, came back from a day spent hawking cheap jewellery in South […]
Read ArticleHave you ever wondered who Jack the Ripper was? It might seem an odd question as everybody at some stage or another, or at least anyone with the remotest interest in the crimes must have, at some stage […]
Read ArticleYou’d be forgiven for thinking that nothing of Jack the Ripper’s London has survived. fter all the march of time, the London Blitz of the Second World War, and property devlopers have all played a hand in chnging […]
Read ArticlePardon the dreadful pun on today’s Jack the Ripper news update, but I just couldn’t resist it! The reason for this dreadful title is because today I wanted to look briefly at what the area where the murders […]
Read ArticlePaul Begg, one of the world’s leading names in Jack the Ripper studies and Richard Jones were the first people to view the files on Thomas Cutbush when they were opened to the public in November 2008. Cutbush […]
Read ArticleOn our jack the Ripper Walks we don’t actually go to Durward Street, which in 1888 was known as Buck’s Row, and was the place where the body of Mary Nichols, the first of Jack the Ripper’s victims, […]
Read ArticleOne of the more intriguing Police Officers whose name crops up time and gains in investigation of the Jack the Ripper Murders was Sergeant William Thicke (also spelled Thick in some newspaper accounts). It was Thicke who, in […]
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