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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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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Collections
London’s dark public execution history in 5 objects
A look at 700 years of public executions in London through five objects
Crime & Legislation
Crime & Legislation
London’s public executions
Hung, drawn and quartered. Beheaded, boiled or burned
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Post-Medieval
Post-Medieval
Seal for St Katharine's-by-the-Tower and the Royal seal for Ecclesiastical Causes (seal matrix)
1548; 16th century