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.
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London’s dark public execution history in 5 objects
A look at 700 years of public executions in London through five objects
Love, Sex & Relationships
Love, Sex & Relationships
The toilet photos that saved gay men on trial
Fighting the prosecution of gay encounters in the 1980s and 1990s
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Saxon & Medieval
