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 our experts
From our experts
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
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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Printed Ephemera
Printed Ephemera
Miss Christabel Pankhurst on National Defence. London Opera House. Women's Social and Political Union. (notice)
Women's Social and Political Union
1914
