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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From avoiding the gallows, to leading a mutiny
What happened to convicts who were transported to penal colonies instead of being executed?
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
Frances Burney’s mahogany desk: A symbol of slavery
Exploring histories of pain and exploitation in one English novelist’s writing desk
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From our experts
Changing London: A view from inside Pentonville Prison
From behind the walls of HMP Pentonville, these men share their views of London after the Second World War
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Printed Ephemera
Printed Ephemera
Men & Women Come to the House of Commons (notice)
Women's Social and Political Union
1908
