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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Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
Who was publicly executed in London?
Thirteen tales of the cooks, rebels, bankers and king who died in front of a watching crowd
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
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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Saxon & Medieval
Saxon & Medieval
Priory of St Leonard, Stratford-at-Bow (seal impression)
Early Medieval; mid-late 13th century
Printed Ephemera
Printed Ephemera
Mrs Pankhurst on the Country in Danger. Kingsway Hall. Women's Social and Political Union (notice)
Women's Social and Political Union
1914-11-30