Uncovering London's criminals, victims and law enforcers

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Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Dick Turpin...are all among the famous - and infamous - Londoners that have been on trial in the capital over the years. In this episode we find out about at a free exhibition at the London archives, which is all about crime and disorder in the capital between the thirteenth and twentieth centuries. It beings together victims, defendants, witnesses, and law enforcers and will tell fascinating stories of those who found themselves in the dock, the stocks, the cells, and at the end of a hangman’s noose - as well as those who put them there. ‘Londoners on Trial: Crime, Courts and the Public 1244 – 1924’, and is open at the City of London Corporation’s archives in Clerkenwell. (Images: Hulton Archive via Getty Images)