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Seven centuries of London crime read out of the paperwork the courts kept, from Dick Turpin to Oscar Wilde, free at the city's own archive.
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The archive holds the records of the courts that tried Londoners, and this is what it has made of them: how a growing city was policed and governed from the medieval period to the twentieth century, and how long Londoners have been fascinated by the details. The cases run from Moll Cutpurse, the seventeenth-century thief and fence, through the highwayman Dick Turpin and the serial escaper Jack Sheppard to the trial of Oscar Wilde and the arrests of Sylvia Pankhurst. The point the show keeps making is that a court record describes a life, a home and a street, not only an offence.
Curators walk visitors through it once a month, and there are talks and document viewings alongside it through the run. It is free, and the archive asks that you book so it can manage numbers.
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