Printed Ephemera

London’s courts condemned more people to die than the rest of England, and six facts you may not know

An estimated 100,000 people died in London’s last major plague epidemic

And showed the complexity of social class in the late 19th century

All you need to know about glove-wearing while handling objects at London Museum

Members of the Prison Art Group at HMP Pentonville present an honest account of prison food and call for change

How these hand-embroidered WWI silk postcards are beautiful examples of sentimentality and wartime industry

Resourceful and heroic – how incarcerated Suffragettes used toilet paper

Camp out, help others, work for world peace: Hargrave’s youth movement aimed for a better society

We delve into our collections to find historical evidence of cats living in London

How a 19th-century animal celebrity gave us a massive new word

Hung, drawn and quartered. Beheaded, boiled or burned

London’s biggest street festival is a celebration of Caribbean culture and Black identity

Musical cats. Violent clowns. Friendly flies. Greetings cards looked a little different in the 1800s

A stuffed canary on a card? A lobster in love? The Victorians had curious ways of showing romance