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
Crime & Legislation
Crime & Legislation
The punishing past of London’s prisons
A list of the most notorious and historic prisons in the city
Crime & Legislation
Crime & Legislation
Jack Sheppard: An 18th-century working class hero
How one young criminal became a working class hero by escaping London prisons four times.
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Printed Ephemera
Printed Ephemera
A Women's Demonstration, Royal Albert Hall, Thursday November 10, 1910 (notice)
Women's Social and Political Union
1910-11-10