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
The Sidney Street siege: An East End shootout
A tale of revolutionaries, murder and Winston Churchill
Crime & Legislation
Crime & Legislation
Mapping London’s execution landscape
In central London, you’re never further than 5km from a known site of execution
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Printed Ephemera
Saxon & Medieval
Saxon & Medieval
Labourer's pass, Flaxwell, Lincs (seal impression)
Late Medieval; late 14th century
