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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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 […]
Read ArticleWhat is it about the East End of London that makes it so special? As someone who has been leading tours around the area now since 1982, I have seen the East End in all its various incarnations […]
Read ArticleThe 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 […]
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 ArticleOn of the true heroes of the 19th Century East End was Dr. Thomas Barnardo, a man who, by the time of his death in 1905, had cared for and saved more than 60,000 homeless children who would […]
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 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 […]
Read ArticleIt’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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