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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Fashion & Style
Fashion & Style
The Forty Elephants: South London’s supreme shoplifters
How an all-women clan of career criminals hounded West End department stores
Collections
Collections
London’s dark public execution history in 5 objects
A look at 700 years of public executions in London through five objects
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Executions & death-penalty reforms in Britain
How 18th-century British reformers questioned capital punishment and the fight continues today
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Post-Medieval
Post-Medieval
Enamelled chain of flowers, bows and leaves (necklace)
Late 16th century - early 17th century
