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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Crime & Legislation
Crime & Legislation
The Cato Street Conspiracy: A failed revolution
This 1820 plot to kill the cabinet ended at the Newgate Prison gallows
Crime & Legislation
Crime & Legislation
The punishing past of London’s prisons
A list of the most notorious and historic prisons in the city
Love, Sex & Relationships
Love, Sex & Relationships
The toilet photos that saved gay men on trial
Fighting the prosecution of gay encounters in the 1980s and 1990s
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Saxon & Medieval
