Crime & Legislation
Spanning criminals, prisons and the Metropolitan Police, find out about London’s laws and its lawbreakers in our objects, stories and blogs.
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Crime & Legislation
Crime & Legislation
London’s public executions
Hung, drawn and quartered. Beheaded, boiled or burned
Crime & Legislation
Crime & Legislation
The Metropolitan Police: From 1829 to today
Two hundred years of policing London
Crime & Legislation
Crime & Legislation
The Cato Street Conspiracy: A failed revolution
This 1820 plot to kill the cabinet ended at the Newgate Prison gallows
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Post-Medieval
Post-Medieval
Dean & Chapter, St Peter's, Westminster (seal impression)
Tudor; mid-late 16th century