Crime & Legislation
Spanning criminals, prisons and the Metropolitan Police, find out about London’s laws and its lawbreakers in our objects, stories and blogs.
Top-Results
Top-Results
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Executions & death-penalty reforms in Britain
How 18th-century British reformers questioned capital punishment and the fight continues today
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
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
The Zong Massacre Trial
The appalling case of 130 enslaved Africans murdered for an insurance claim
