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
Frances Burney’s mahogany desk: A symbol of slavery
Exploring histories of pain and exploitation in one English novelist’s writing desk
Crime & Legislation
Crime & Legislation
The punishing past of London’s prisons
A list of the most notorious and historic prisons in the city
Crime & Legislation
Crime & Legislation
The Cato Street Conspiracy: A failed revolution
This 1820 plot to kill the cabinet ended at the Newgate Prison gallows
