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
The Cato Street Conspiracy: A failed revolution
This 1820 plot to kill the cabinet ended at the Newgate Prison gallows
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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Decorative arts
Decorative arts
Crouching leopard box; trinket box (snuff box)
1801-1804; 1931; 19th century; 20th century
Saxon & Medieval
Paintings, Prints & Drawings
Paintings, Prints & Drawings
Remember the Poor Prisoners (engraving)
Laroon, Marcellus, Overton, Henry
1705-1715
