How did London punish, and what's left of those it punished?
4 walks with different starting points and stories. Compare their maps, stops and duration, then choose where to begin.
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London's history of crime is also a history of justice and punishment. These routes look at the places, decisions and people involved, with attention to documented events. They ask how judgement was made and how those who were punished were remembered, beyond the reputation that a particular case may have acquired later.
In “Fleet Street and the Temple”: Sweeney Todd distinguishes a fictional criminal from the real places of Fleet Street, alongside the history of the Temple's lawyers.
In “Crime and Punishment in London”: Newgate and the condemned prisoners' bell place punishment in the city's public spaces.
In “Whitechapel, 1888”: Kate, Liz, Polly and Annie place the women and their lives at the centre of Whitechapel's history in 1888.
Choose from 4 independent walks in London. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.
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You start in Seven Dials, the star of seven streets whose column vanished in 1773, and not for the reason you'll hear, in the old neighbourhood of gallows ballads; on Rose Street, a poet was beaten up over a poem he hadn't written.
Sweeney Todd distinguishes a fictional criminal from the real places of Fleet Street, alongside the history of the Temple's lawyers.
Newgate and the condemned prisoners' bell place punishment in the city's public spaces.
Kate, Liz, Polly and Annie place the women and their lives at the centre of Whitechapel's history in 1888.
London makes more sense an area at a time than as one vast walk. Neighbourhoods change pace within a few streets; the sky may change while you find the next one.
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