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What Does Jack The Ripper Teach Us?

Posted on April 25, 2013April 25, 2013 by Richard Jones

It’s an intriguing part of our nightly walking tour to see just what people know about the Jack the Ripper crimes and the history of the East End of London in general. The Whitechapel Murders could easily be […]

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Tagged Jack the Ripper, Jack the Ripper Police investigation, Spitalfields, Victorian London., Whitechapel, Whitechapel Murders

Jack The Ripper’s Legacy

Posted on April 23, 2013May 30, 2013 by Richard Jones

There has been much talk over the last year, or at least ever since the end of the London 2012 Olympics, about the Olympic legacy. It got me thinking about whether or not it could be argued that […]

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Tagged CSI, East End of London, Jack the Ripper, Police Investigation Methods for Jack the Ripper, Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Whitechapel Murders

The Ever Changing East End

Posted on March 6, 2013July 16, 2014 by Richard Jones

The East End of London has seen an awful lot of change since Jack the Ripper’s day. Indeed, in some ways, Jack the Ripper might have been the catalyst that sparked off a lot of the initial change […]

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Tagged 1888, East End of London, Jack the Ripper Photos, Jack the Ripper Tour, Jack the Ripper Walk, Spitalfields, Victorian East End, Whitechapel

Ripper Street Premier

Posted on January 19, 2013January 19, 2013 by Richard Jones

The 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 […]

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Tagged INspector Edmund Reid, Jack the Ripper, Jack the Ripper Tour, Jack the Ripper Walk, Ripper Street, Spitalfields, Whitechapel

Victims

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Richard Jones

Jack 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 […]

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Tagged East End of London, Emma Smith, Jack the Ripper, London Hospital, Spitalfields, Victims of Jack the Ripper, Victorian London., Whitechapel, Whitechapel Murders

Jack the Ripper – A Lesson From The Past

Posted on January 8, 2013January 8, 2013 by Richard Jones

In 1888 the East End of London was a veritable melting pot of many different nationalities. It was very much the immigrant district of London, due largely to its proximity to the London Docks. Newly arrived immigrants would […]

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Tagged 1888, Agricultural Revolution, East End of London, Eastern European Immigration, Jack the Ripper Murders, London Docks, Spitalfields, Whitechapel

The Price of Prostitution

Posted on December 21, 2012December 20, 2012 by Richard Jones

It’s often bandied about by writers, historians and amateur sleuths that the going rate for a prostitute on the streets of Jack the Ripper’s East End was 4d. Indeed, the term “a fourpenny knee trembler” has passed into […]

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Tagged doss house, East End, Jack the Ripper, Spitalfields, Whitechapel

Possible early Jack the Ripper victim

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Richard Jones

Since we will never be 100% certain who Jack the Ripper was it follows that we will never know for sure the exact number of victims that he had. Although it is generally said that he had five […]

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Tagged 1888, Annie Millwood, Dorset Street, Jack the Ripper, Mary Kelly, Spitalfields, White's Row, Whitechapel Workhouse Infirmary

It’s Foggy

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Richard Jones

When you think of Jack the Ripper you, inevitably, thing of foggy and  gas lit streets. Now, in all honesty, on the nights when the murders took place fog was conspicuous by its absence. For that matter, as […]

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Tagged Jack the Ripper, Jack the Ripper Tour, Jack the Ripper Walk, Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Whitechapel Murderer

How Jack The Ripper Impacted On Society

Posted on November 27, 2012November 26, 2012 by Richard Jones

The Jack the Ripper murders impacted on Victorian society in several ways. As far as some of the wealthier citizens who lived in the west of London were concerned he was the embodiment of all the fears and […]

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Tagged George Bernard Shaw, Jack the Ripper, Jack the Ripper Suspects, Nemesis of Neglect, Spitalfields, Victorian London., Whitechapel

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