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Dear all,

We’re delighted to announce the creation of an official blog on the Conference at www.ripperconference.com/blog.

Mike Covell will be updating you all each Saturday from now until October, sharing his thoughts on the latest developments as the event takes shape.

Best wishes Adam Wood and Andy Aliffe Conference Organisers www.ripperconference.com

Latest comment by MikeCovell 3 months ago

Week 3- Planes, Trains and Automobiles! How are you getting there? I have thought this over quite…

Hull Ripper Craze A look at Hull based Ripper Crazes 1888-1988 Mike Covell

Kingston upon Hull during the late 1800’s was similar to London in many respects, it was a thriving City, one of the busiest ports in Europe but it also had it’s problems. Bodies were often found in many of the docks that surrounded the City, prostitution was rife and drunken attacks were common place. Infanticide, theft and murder were daily occurrences. Influx…

Latest comment by MikeCovell 3 months ago

I have posted a full album of locations featured in the 1888 articles here, http://www.facebook.com…

August 18th 1988 The Hull Daily Mail wrote a follow up article again mentioning the imminent tourist boom.

New Ripper file to spark tourist boom? By MATTHEW LIMB NEW EVIDENCE from the Jack the Ripper case could shed light on speculation that Britain’s most chilling mass murderer came from Hull. Original documents and photographs of the killers victims, which went missing from official records many years ago were put on show at Scotland…

The following article appeared on July 1st 1988 in The Hull Daily Mail

TV special on “Jack” may spark boom Ripper tours set for Hull Hull is set for a macabre tourist boost….thanks to Jack the Ripper. By Jonathon Carr-Brown For the centenary of London’s Whitechapel murders this August will be heralded by a prime time American TV show centering on new claims that the fiendish killer was the son of a Hull mill owner. An expert Melvyn Harris…

Earlier this year Philip Hutchinson and Robert Clack, two of East London’s finest historians released "The London of Jack the Ripper- Now and Then".

The book was an instant best seller, and was highly praised by ripperologists and historians, and features modern photographs, alongside contempory photographs of locations associated with the infamous Victorian serial killer.

Several of the shots were from a private collection, which had lay…

Queen Victoria visted Hull in 1854, staying at the newly built Royal Station Hotel, before listening to the Hull Sunday School children performing, and visiting the Hull Docks, aboard her Royal Yacht.

The visit had a lasting affect on Hull, with the Old Dock renamed as "Queens Dock", and several buildings named in her honour.

But how many people are aware she was listed as a suspect in the Jack the Ripper" crimes of 1888?

The story goes…

The next letter was sent to the Thames Police Court, for the attention of Mr Saunders, the Chief Magistrate. The letter was featured in the Hull Daily Mail, which at the time was located on Whitefriargate.

Below is a full transcription of the article and letter.

5th December 1888 Hull Daily Mail THE EAST END OUTRAGES TEXT OF THE “JACK THE RIPPER” LETTER On Tuesday Mr Saunders, the presiding magistrate at the Thames Police Court, received…

Below is another Ripper letter featured in The Eastern Morning news on 15th October 1888. The letter was sent to a Welsh newspaper called the Western Mail. I have a good friend and ripperologist in Wales who is looking into this letter!

Below is the full transcription of the letter,

15th October 1888 Eastern Morning News ANOTHER LETTER FROM “JACK THE RIPPER” “Jack the Ripper” writes to a Welsh newspaper the following letter, bearing a…