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
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
Fashion & Style
Fashion & Style
The Forty Elephants: South London’s supreme shoplifters
How an all-women clan of career criminals hounded West End department stores
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?
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