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Background imageLaw Collection: Young Trickster

Young Trickster
4th November 1925: A practical joker attaching a firework to a policemans jacket. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: Cat Burglar

Cat Burglar
1924: A man demonstrating how a cat burglar works. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: Jack Sheppard

Jack Sheppard
July 1907: The house of the English robber Jack Sheppard (1702-1724) in Southwark, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: Petrol Wagon

Petrol Wagon
7th May 1926: Mounted police escort a petrol wagon along St Georges Road, Southwark, London, during the General Strike. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: Back To School

Back To School
27th August 1935: A police officer helping a group of children to cross Rosebery Avenue, London, on their way to school. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: Luard Murder Case

Luard Murder Case
circa 1908: General Luards house at Ightham Knoll, Kent. The body of Luards wife was found in nearby woods with gunshot wounds to the head. The case remains unsolved

Background imageLaw Collection: Justice Fountain, Berne, Switzerland

Justice Fountain, Berne, Switzerland
Picture of the Justice Fountain taken in Berne, Switzerland

Background imageLaw Collection: Inside Ananda Phaya Bagan Buddhist Temple Unesco Myanmar

Inside Ananda Phaya Bagan Buddhist Temple Unesco Myanmar
Inside Ananda Phaya temple at Bagan, UNESCO world heritage place at Myanmar. Asia

Background imageLaw Collection: Inside Ananda Phaya Bagan Buddhist Temple Unesco Myanmar

Inside Ananda Phaya Bagan Buddhist Temple Unesco Myanmar
Inside Ananda Phaya temple at Bagan, UNESCO world heritage place at Myanmar. Asia

Background imageLaw Collection: Santa And The Law

Santa And The Law
Father Christmas walking down the street flanked by two policemen. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: Festival Force

Festival Force
25th August 1973: Police keep an eye on the crowd at Windsor Pop Festival in Windsor Great Park. (Photo by Tim Graham/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: River Police

River Police
13th October 1976: A police boat at speed on the river Thames in London, with Tower Bridge behind. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: Police Line

Police Line
circa 1980: Police forming a line in front of demonstrators at Llanwern Steel. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: Speed Trap

Speed Trap
1st December 1978: PC Alex McHattie aiming a radar speed gun (VASCA) at a car. (Photo by Roy Chaplin/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: City Snow

City Snow
20th November 1965: A policeman directs traffic on a snowy day in Ludgate Circus, London as a frozen food van drives past. (Photo by Sydney O Meara/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: Beauty contest

Beauty contest
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: Female competitor in beauty contest, wearing one-piece bathing suit and heels in front of crowd, rear view, Roosevelt Raceway, New York. (Photo by H)

Background imageLaw Collection: Wethersfield Prison For Women

Wethersfield Prison For Women
A group of women in hoop skirts play croquet on a lawn as two men in top hats look on, at the Wethersfield Prison for Women, Connecticut, early 1860s. (Photo by Lightfoot/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: Searching Car

Searching Car
2nd September 1950: A customs officer searching the boot of a car at Calais. Original Publication: Picture Post - Through The French Customs - pub

Background imageLaw Collection: Public Nuisance

Public Nuisance
28th January 1939: An unusual sign in Londons Mayfair warns passers-by against making a public nuisance of themselves. Original Publication: Picture Post - 80 - Mayfair - pub

Background imageLaw Collection: A police officer on the street, San Francisco, early 20th century

A police officer on the street, San Francisco, early 20th century (photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: Elevated Train On Sixth Avenue

Elevated Train On Sixth Avenue
Train rides over elevated tracks past the Jefferson Market courthouse on Sixth Avenue, Greenwich Village, New York City, circa 1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes
Portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935) American poet, essayist, novelist and physician, seated with his elbow on a table, circa 1881. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: Evicted Family

Evicted Family
A mother and children with their belongings after being evicted from their house near Errismore in the west of Ireland, circa 1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: Praying For Food

Praying For Food
An advertisement depicting a group of hungry peasants praying for food, with the slogan Give us this day our daily bread, part of the Anti-Corn Law Leagues campaign

Background imageLaw Collection: The First Fleet

The First Fleet
Some of the First Fleet - eleven British Navy ships under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip, which took 750 British convicts to Botany Bay

Background imageLaw Collection: The Prison Group

The Prison Group
A group of prisoners sharing a cell, circa 1600. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: Dublin Riot

Dublin Riot
Rioting outside the Liberty Hall headquarters of the Transport Workers Union in Dublin, 31st August 1913. Trouble flared after a meeting by striking tramway workers when crowds gathered

Background imageLaw Collection: J1693688, diry 18758, print, H / LAW / PUNI / TRANSPORTATION, punishment, law, H 89916 ORIG H 89915

J1693688, diry 18758, print, H / LAW / PUNI / TRANSPORTATION, punishment, law, H 89916 ORIG H 89915
A convict working in the British Penal Settlement in Bermuda, circa 1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: J1693688, diry 18758, print, H / LAW / PUNI / TRANSPORTATION, punishment, law, H 16539 BOX 294 1 / 4

J1693688, diry 18758, print, H / LAW / PUNI / TRANSPORTATION, punishment, law, H 16539 BOX 294 1 / 4
Chained prisoners being sent from Newgate Prison in London to Blackfriars, for transportation to America, circa 1760. From the The Newgate Calendar. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: Garden Execution

Garden Execution
1871: Taking place in a back garden, the execution by firing squad of Generals Thomas (without hat) and Lecomte which started the Paris Commune

Background imageLaw Collection: Palais De Justice

Palais De Justice
The Palais de Justice or law courts, and the Conciergerie prison on the Ile de la Cite in Paris, 1856. The Pont au Change is under construction on the right

Background imageLaw Collection: Palais de Justice

Palais de Justice
August 1955: View of the Palace of Justice from The Seine in Paris. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: Charlie Boy

Charlie Boy
A gentleman pushing over a watchmans hut to the delight of passers by. Entitled, Getting the Better of a Charlie. Original Artwork

Background imageLaw Collection: Bow Street Runner

Bow Street Runner
John Townsend, a Bow Street Runner. The Runners were forerunners of the modern police force and policed the streets in conjunction with nightwatchman but were more efficient

Background imageLaw Collection: Keeping The Peace

Keeping The Peace
Cartoon titled A Slap At The Charleys or A Tom And Jerry Lark published in response to Robert Peels reorganization of the London metropolitan police force

Background imageLaw Collection: Safer Streets

Safer Streets
A line of policemen in beards striking terror into the hearts of the local children, entitled, The Police wear Beards and Moustaches - Panic Among The Street Boys

Background imageLaw Collection: Peelers

Peelers
31st January 1837: Policemen assembling at Bow Street, London. Original Artwork: Engraving from the Penny Magazine (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: Captured At Last

Captured At Last
circa 1838: Fagin sits alone in the condemned cell after his capture by the police in Charles Dickens Oliver Twist. Original Artwork: Engraving by George Cruikshank

Background imageLaw Collection: Stand And Deliver

Stand And Deliver
1851: A Victorian highwayman takes two travellers on horseback by surprise, from The life of the late John Mylton (1608 - 1674) by Charles Apperley or Nimrod

Background imageLaw Collection: Newgate Execution

Newgate Execution
1st December 1809: An execution in front of the Debtors door at Newgate prison, London. Original Artwork: Engraving by Turnbull (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageLaw Collection: Antique illustration of tortures and death penalty

Antique illustration of tortures and death penalty

Background imageLaw Collection: Jury Nobbling

Jury Nobbling
A humorous cartoon showing a courtroom scene, in which a defendant threatens the members of a jury, circa 1800. The caption reads: Gentlemen of the jury

Background imageLaw Collection: Holloway Prison

Holloway Prison
The inner gate of Holloway Prison in London, circa 1850. Published in The Criminal Prisons of London, a compilation of articles entitled The Great World of London by Henry Mayhew, pub. 1862

Background imageLaw Collection: Antique illustration of parliament

Antique illustration of parliament

Background imageLaw Collection: Antique illustration of tortures and death penalty

Antique illustration of tortures and death penalty

Background imageLaw Collection: Antique illustration of tortures and death penalty

Antique illustration of tortures and death penalty

Background imageLaw Collection: Antique illustration of tortures and death penalty

Antique illustration of tortures and death penalty

Background imageLaw Collection: Antique illustration of tortures and death penalty

Antique illustration of tortures and death penalty



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