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

You will be visited by three spirits.

@wolfgabe.bsky.social · last wk.

You will be visited by three spirits.

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

Only four days to go! Booking link at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/metropolit... #museums #exhibitions #whattodoinLondon #forensics #forensicscience #CSI #truecrime

"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

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

QTP with a sword ⚔️

Scalawag Jack@scalawagjack.bsky.social · 2w ago

QTP with a sword ⚔️

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle ...

John B@johnbc74.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle...

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

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

TableTopBill@tabletopbill.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sean Bean will return as Boromir, son of Denethor II in Avengers: Doomsday

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

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 3w ago

Poirot is a Belgian refugee. Hastings a wounded WW1 veteran. Agatha Christie was a nursing assistant and dispenser in both world wars. This week on Untitled History Pod i talk with Tina Hodgkinson about how war service helped define Agatha Christie's work. Below or on your app of choice! #history

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 ...

Robert Fleming@flemingrob.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A huge congrats to my colleagues from TNA who scooped the Temporary and Travelling Exhibition award at last night's M&H Awards for the blockbuster MI5: Official Secrets exhibition. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/the-nat...

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

Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · last yr.

The only thing we really know for sure is that the case led to the very unhelpful legal convention ‘no body, no murder’ which stuck until the 1930s

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 🚨

#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

Booking for free September tours of our #Forensics125 exhibition just opened and they're already selling like hot cakes. Have you got yours yet? #TrueCrime #Forensics #CSI #fingerprints

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...

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

Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Nancy Astor, the first woman to sit in Parliament, on being the only female MP in a largely hostile chamber: "When I first spoke about the things women wanted in the House of Commons it was like a voice crying in the wilderness. And the wilderness answered back".

#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

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-...

Leaving a mark: 125 Years of fingerprinting at the Met

Discover the evolution of fingerprinting over the last 125 years.

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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.

Ruth Ellis, last woman hanged in UK, granted posthumous conditional pardon

Ruth Ellis, last woman hanged in UK, granted posthumous conditional pardon

Ellis was executed in 1955 after fatally shooting her partner David Blakely * UK politics live – latest updates Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in UK, has been granted a conditional pardon in light of evidence that she was a victim of domestic abuse and coercive and controlling behaviour. She was executed in 1955 after she shot and killed her partner, David Blakely, who she met while working in the nightclub she managed two years earlier. Continue reading...

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📢 Registration for the 2026 British Crime Historians Symposium is now open! Fantastic range of panels & papers, and non-speakers are very welcome to attend. Join us at OBU this September for two days of all things crime history. Details & registration: sites.google.com/brookes.ac.u... #crimehistory

#OnThisDay 125 years ago Assistant Commissioner Edward Henry set up the Met's Fingerprint Department. Its system was based on the work of Hem Chandra Bose and Qazi Azizul Haque in the Bengal Police, of which Henry had been the head. Our #Forensics125 show in September will mark the anniversary. #OTD

#heatwave #museums #canicule #musées

Jack Bousfield was born in New South Wales, Australia in 1911, and joined the Metropolitan Police aged 21. During #WWII he served in the RAFVR as an air-gunner with 83 and 50 Squadrons, becoming the first London police officer to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross. #policehistory #AnzacDay

If it's the Square Mile surely that's a matter for the City of London Police not the Yard ... 🤔 #SchurelySchomeMistake #niche #CityOfLondon #crossover

Talking Pictures TV@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A travel agent is burgled in SCOTLAND YARD (1962) 7:30pm featuring #DelphiLawrence #JohnWelsh 'The Square Mile Murder' on #TPTV

The best part of Sheepskin is the whole affair was largely caught on film, so the IWM has great footage of bemust Special Branch coppers and bored paratroopers dicking about on a carribean paradise www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

John C@badsocialism.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My favourite is Operation Sheepskin (The Bay of Piglets) when 2 Para occupies Anguilla after it declares indpendence from St Kitts and Nevis only to be greeted as liberators becuase the locals declared indpedence so they could return to British rule

Another Monday, another spell of blocking those who can't tell the Met's Museum from the Met itself ...