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
Jack the Ripper
How the murders of five women birthed an infamous East End crime story
Crime & Legislation
Crime & Legislation
London’s public executions
Hung, drawn and quartered. Beheaded, boiled or burned
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Printed Ephemera
Printed Ephemera
Proclamation by His Highness and the Parliament (proclamation)
Hills, Henry, Field, John
1657