Crime and punishment

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Policing the Port of London Fighting crime in maritime London

Prostitution in maritime London Throughout its long history women worked as prostitutes in the streets and taverns of maritime London

London and the pirates Separate fact from fiction and find out what pirates were really like

Prison hulks on the River Thames Find out more about the notorious floating prisons that housed London's convicts

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Captain Kidd A 17th-century pirate