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
Six things you didn’t know about executions in London
London’s courts condemned more people to die than the rest of England, and six facts you may not know
Crime & Legislation
Crime & Legislation
The Cato Street Conspiracy: A failed revolution
This 1820 plot to kill the cabinet ended at the Newgate Prison gallows
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
The Zong Massacre Trial
The appalling case of 130 enslaved Africans murdered for an insurance claim