Death & Disasters
Discover objects, stories and blogs that tell us about death and disaster through London’s history.
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Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism
The New Cross fire
13 young Black people died in this 1981 tragedy, which led to the Brixton Uprising
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
The medieval graveyard on Newgate Street
How 1970s archaeologists recorded the remains of 234 people buried nearly 1,000 years ago
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
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Saxon & Medieval