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Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Want to learn the truth behind the fiction? Good availability for our #Forensics125 exhibition in both October and November, December slots released on 2nd November.

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

90 years ago, on the 4th of October 1936, antifascist counter protesters stopped a British Union of Fascists march through London’s East End. The Metropolitan Police tried to clear the way for the fascists resulting in violent clashes known as the Battle of Cable Street. #otd #history 🗃️

The mounted police conduct a charge against the dense crowd to clear the way to Cable Street.

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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

British classic directed by #BasilDearden THE BLUE LAMP (1949) 9:20pm stars #JackWarner #JimmyHanley #DirkBogarde crime drama #TPTVsubtitles

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Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hello Bloomberg Buddy! Our new virtual verson of our current exhibition is due out there at the end of October.

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Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the slightly lesser-known sieges from our collection, alongside Sidney Street and the Iranian Embassy.

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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Directed by #BasilDearden Our Saturday Night Big Film! #JackWarner #JimmyHanley #DirkBogarde in THE BLUE LAMP (1949) 9:05pm crime classic #TPTVsubtitles

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Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

He gets a (dis)honourable mention at the start of our new exhibition on fingerprinting and forensics (opened today and on for a year)!

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Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Also literally and metaphorically on your patch, School of Law and Criminology of @uniofgreenwich.bsky.social !

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Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Painting from Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust via @artukdotorg.bsky.social used for non-commercial research purposes, under UK exception to copyright permitted to users based in the United Kingdom under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. artuk.org/discover/art...

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Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Come to our new exhibition to find out how the Marsh test was crucial to solving two poisoning cases. Its inventor James Marsh was also an artillery inventor and assisted Michael Faraday at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich. #Forensics #fingerprints #new #Victorians #Museums #Exhibitions

Oil painting of a Regency white man in black neckcloth and black coat with four large medallions.

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Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Counter-forensics doesn't just involve trying to destroy the evidence - come to our exhibition from Tuesday onwards to learn how these brothers were foiled in their attempt to deceive the Met's Criminal Record Office ... #F125 #Forensics125 #Forensics #Museums #Exhibitions #TrueCrime

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Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"But we thought museums loved shelving - why are you taking some down?" we hear you ask. It's all to do with our new exhibition, launching in five days' time! Spaces in September and October now available to book at met-police-museum-tour.eventbrite.co.uk #shelfie #truecrime #F125 #museums

Wooden battens, grey metal shelves and other parts of a shelving unit neatly stacked in the corner of a room with red carpet and cream walls.

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Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

1963, replacing this 1896 station on part of the same site, which had been built next door to an 1891 Police Court. That station and the court both escaped damage in the Blitz, though an area to the north of the station became a "Clearance Area" postwar.

Large brick building with three rows of windows, one slim long chimney stack and triangular gables. In the left background, with no gap between the buildings, is a more neo-classical stone building with chimney stacks and a triangular pediment over the main entrance.

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Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's only a week until our #Forensics125 exhibition opens and tour slots for October have just been released. Come learn how two Indian police officers invented modern fingerprint classification, how #forensics has developed since then, & who was the 'Queen of Poisons'. #TrueCrime #CSI #fingerprints

Left, two palm prints in ink on paper with handwritten notes on a wooden stand. Right, the reverse of the stand.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Lavender Hill is such a mix of gentrification and normalness, and great postwar architecture

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Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Jack Warner will return as George Dixon in Avengers: Doomsday.

Colour photo of Jack Warner in costume as Dixon of Dock Green, including helmet and tunic.

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Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Two poisoning cases (Seddon and Armstrong) which formed part of Christie's inspiration also form part of our next exhibition, opening on 8 September. #Christie50 #F125 #Forensics125 #TrueCrime

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Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We'll take a tiny bit of reflected glory if we may, having loaned that exhibition a 1990s Provisional IRA mortar and a replica by our Bomb Data Centre of a drink-bottle bomb from 2006 ...

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Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The 'Acid Bath Murderer' is one of the cases in our new exhibition, opening on 8 September. He assumed this convention would mean he avoid a murder conviction, but pathologist Keith Simpson was able to find remains of his victims. #Forensics125 #forensics #TrueCrime #pathology #museums

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Brick Cop ©️ @brickcop.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Remembering Sgt Christopher Head, DC David Wombwell, and PC Geoffrey Fox. The crew of 'Foxtrot 1 : 1', they were murdered on duty, 60 years ago today in 1966 on Braybrook Street W12. Murdered in the Line of Duty, protecting the public, pursuing armed suspects. #ThinBlueLine 🚨

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Codex Silens @codexcultus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

#OTD On Aug 8, 1963, a 15-man gang intercepted a Royal Mail train at Bridego Railway Bridge in England, stealing £2.61 million. Led by Bruce Reynolds, they tampered with signals to halt the Glasgow-to-London train before escaping to a nearby hideout,where they were later captured #truecrime #history

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Call for participation: 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳 Engaged pasts, meaningful futures: The value of archives, practice and historical inquiry. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

Promotional image for History and Archives in Practice with the heading “Call for participation”. On the left, logos for The National Archives, the Institute of Historical Research (School of Advanced Study, University of London), and the Royal Historical Society appear above the event title in large black text. Beneath the title are the details: “Senate House, London” and “Wednesday 28 April, 2027”. On the right is a colourful collage-style artwork featuring classical statues and a sculpted head on a red background, a hot-air balloon, a chalkboard with “E = mc²”, a molecular structure diagram, a seated figure holding a stringed instrument, and a rocket against purple and black backgrounds. The poster has a light cream background with black text.

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Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In 1921 Astor was joined by Margaret Wintringham (Liberal) and in 1922-1923 they joined forces to defeat the abolition of the Met's Women Patrols on austerity grounds and to gain them power of arrest. #WomensHistory #Herstory #PoliceHistory

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Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

#OnThisDay in 1949 John Haigh was found guilty of murder. He is sometimes known as the 'Acid Bath Murderer', though he in fact used barrels rather than bathtubs. His case is included in the counter-forensics section of our #Forensics125 exhibition, due to open in early September. #TrueCrime

Red handbag in several pieces, namely the body, lid and four pieces of the handle. Tied to the body is an exhibit label from its being used as evidence in Haigh's trial.

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Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Booking is still open (just about!) for this week's talk, which should whet your appetite for our #Forensics125 exhibition in September! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leaving-a-...

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Leaving a mark: 125 Years of fingerprinting at the Met

Discover the evolution of fingerprinting over the last 125 years.

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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

A look into how police dogs and guide dogs for the blind are trained. LOOK AT LIFE: EARNING THEIR KEEP (1966) 3:50pm on #TPTV the short also looks at horse training.

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Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Sorry for the delay! We've consulted our pool of retired officers and a 1978 joiner remembers them being as you say whereas a 1980 joiner remembers being issued with them as standard. So hopefully that answers your question!

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