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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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.
Crime & Legislation
Crime & Legislation
Horsemonger Lane Jail
Where rooftop executions became a violent Southwark spectacle
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Executions & death-penalty reforms in Britain
How 18th-century British reformers questioned capital punishment and the fight continues today
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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