LONDON MUSEUM DOCKLANDS
Executions
Welcome to London Museum Docklands' exhibition, Executions: 700 years of public executions in London, which ran between 14 October 2022 – 16 April 2023. Join us on a journey to explore how public executions shaped Londoners’ lives and the city’s landscape.
This tour takes you through each chapter of the exhibition, exploring one object or theme in each. You will also hear six of the individual cases told in execution 'broadsides' – a type of newspaper style street literature of the time which were cheaply produced and often sensationally written accounts of criminals, their crimes and execution.
Age recommendation: 12+
30 mins
Introduction
Chapter I
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1:32
Charles I Execution vest
Chapter 2: City of gallows
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2:43
Elizabeth Fry bonnet
Chapter 3: Preparing for Execution
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2:27
Newgate Prison Debtors’ Door
Chapter 4: Execution Day
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2:38
The Gibbet
Chapter 5: The Executed Body
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2:34
Execution Broadsides: The Dreadful Murder of Mrs Crouch
Execution Broadsides
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2:01
Execution Broadsides: Mary Wittenback
Execution Broadsides
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2:33
Execution Broadsides: Annette Meyer
Execution Broadsides
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2:24
Execution Broadsides: Thomas Corrigan
Execution Broadsides
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2:41
Execution Broadsides: Eliza Ross
Execution Broadsides
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3:36
Execution Broadsides: François Courvoisier
Execution Broadsides
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2:38
Punch cartoon: Murder Mania
Chapter 6: The Decline of Public Executions
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2:49
Executions today
Chapter: Remembering the executed
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2:13
