1920s juries were not taken to crime scenes and so the murder scene of Emily Kaye in an Eastbourne bungalow was brought to them in 1924 thanks to the craft skills of PC Edward Er Onan Shelah (1890-1962) at Brixton Police Station. #CM150 #Museum30 #making #truecrime

Since November last year we've selected the objects for our #CM150 exhibition, written the tour for it, welcomed over 1500 visitors and created a Bloomberg Connects tour which launches soon! #Museum30 #recycling

From 19th century onwards St John's Ambulance trained Met officers in first aid. We have certificates awarded, kit used to mock up injuries for major incident rehearsals, and even the odd photograph on the topic ... #Museum30 #kindness

Franz Müller was executed at Newgate Prison #OnThisDay in 1864 after a three-day trial for the murder of 70-year-old chief bank clerk Thomas Briggs on a North London line train between Hackney Wick and Bow, the first known railway murder. #OTD #OnThisDayInHistory #CM150

One of the heaviest items in the Crime Museum collection is this payphone used in 1992 by Te Rangimaria Ngarimu, the UK's only recorded female assassin. #heavy #Museum30 #CM150

The #background to this image of all the Met's women officers (including four in CID) in 1937 is the imposing stone structure of Canon Row Police Station, near the present-day New Scotland Yard. #Museum30 #ThisGirlCan #womenshistory

It's still in its soft-launch phase (official launch later this month!), but we recently completed a virtual audio tour of our current exhibition thanks to Bloomberg Connects, available at links.bloombergconnects.org/6Ggw/10m94pg7 or on their app. #Museum30 #Digital

Sgt Harry Joseph Battley of Special Branch was killed when his aircraft had to ditch off Lampedusa on 1 February 1945 whilst on his way to the Yalta Conference with members of Churchill's staff. #SWW #WWII #remembrance #remembranceday #poppy

Found in a handbag on the settee in Evelyn Oatley's flat in Soho, fingerprints on this mirror helped convict her murderer Gordon Frederick Cummins, also guilty of five other murders or attempted murders of women in 1942. It is on display in our #CM150 exhibition. #Museum30 #reflection #wwii

Today we remember all Met officers and staff killed in conflict, whether with the armed forces or still with the Met, and all who came home from war to resume their Met roles. #remembrance #remembranceday #remembrance2025

We are always expanding our #LGBThistory holdings, for example by close contact with the Met's liaison officers to that community, but they began with our acquisition of 'This Small Cloud', the 1986 publication of the memoirs of a gay officer who served from 1925 to 1950. #Museum30 #rainbow #LGBT

This is probably the earliest #map in our collection showing the Met's original 17 divisions (geographical areas) as of 1837, only three years before its remit expanded from a 7 to a 12 mile radius from Charing Cross. #Museum30

Annie Parker #stitch ed this sampler (now on show in our #CM150 exhibition) using her own hair as thread and gave it to the Rev John Horsley, chaplain to Clerkenwell Prison. In 1884 he gave it to our collection - Parker herself died the following year of TB aged only 35. #Museum30 #womensart

16-year-old Daisy Pollex Adams appeared in the witness #box during a November 1901 Marylebone hearing into the practices of Ann and Frank Jackson's Theocratic Unity Temple near Regent's Park. At the Old Bailey the following month he was found guilty of Daisy's rape and Ann of abetting it. #Museum30

This isn't just a chamber pot, this a G (Finsbury) Division-branded chamber pot ... #Museum30 #clay

Met history is shared across many collections other than our own - for instance, the Albert Medal awarded to PC William Cole for getting a bomb out of the crypt of Westminster Hall 140 years ago is now in the @ukparliament.parliament.uk collection. #Museum30 #sharing #CM150 #BonfireNight

It's that time of year again! We'll be linking all our posts into a thread right here. #Museum30

We have 18 binders of sketches by John Worsley, who provided them for the Met & other constabularies from 1969 to 1999. He also created the PC49 comics, artwork for the 1980s 'The Wind in the Willows' TV series, & (as a #WWII naval POW) the dummy 'Albert RN'. #sketchbook #Museum30 #remembrance

Get your skates on - it's only six tour weeks 'til Christmas! December slots for our #CM150 exhibition are now available at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/metropolit....

The #eyes definitely have it in this Photo-Fit kit from our collection. Invented by Jacques Penry, it replaced the American Identikit in 1970 and was itself replaced by E-FIT in 1988. This one is on the object shortlist for our #Forensics125 exhibition next year - stay tuned! #CM150 #Museum30

This #signage was put up at the Crime Museum under Commissioner Sir Edward Bradford - his first wife Elizabeth Adela Knight was great-niece to Jane Austen. Our collection holds the claws of the tigress which claimed Bradford's left arm at Guna in central India in 1863. #Museum30 #CM150 #Austen250

We are two Museums (founded in 1875 and 1949), an archive and a reference library, covering the lives of Met officers and staff ever since 1829 and the crimes they have solved. #CM150 #Movember #Museum30 #Introduction

Today sees the 171th Anniversary of the Charge of the Light Brigade. Here is my tribute to the great Benjamin Beeson, a survivor who went on to serve as a member of the Metropolitan Police Mounted Division, based at Sanderstead: youtu.be/iHykEUsqw0I @mpsheritage.bsky.social

#OnThisDay 115 years ago began the trial of the murderer of Cora Crippen, a Polish-American music hall artiste also known by her stage name Belle Elmore. The investigation leading to it is fully covered in our #CM150 exhibition in Sidcup. #OTD #OnThisDayInHistory #truecrime #storyofamurder

Ruth Ellis born #OTD in 1926. The Welsh nightclub hostess shot her lover outside a Hampstead pub. She was the last woman to be executed in Britain. Hear her story in our Women and Crime podcast: tinyurl.com/4hducnyh #history #truecrime

I was married but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

A busy day on C (St James's) Division in 1963 ...

The secret's out! Read more about ⚰️VICTORIAN MURDER CLUB⚰️ here! www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

Today we're remembering all the #goodboys in Met history, from the bloodhounds loaned by Commissioner Warren in 1888 for use in Whitechapel to Dexter the wellbeing dog today. #dogsofbluesky #worlddogday #jourinternationalduchien #doglover #blackandwhitephotography #policedogs #goodboy

'The Crime Museum Uncovered' opened #OnThisDay ten years ago at @londonmuseum.bsky.social, the first of only two public exhibitions of the collection ever. The second is now on in Sidcup and runs until April 2026, with December bookings opening in early November. #OTD #ThrowbackThursday #CM150

My husband's great-grandfather William Henry Symonds was a Police Constable with the Metropolitan Police. He joined in 1882 (King's Cross Division) and transferred to Willesden in 1887. He was assaulted in 1890 (account below) and retired in 1908. I would love to find a photo of him! #genealogy

This year's edition is themed around Police #Museums. We have a story of the Crime Museum, about @mpsheritage.bsky.social, a look in the National Emergency Services Museum, and the Kent Police museum. #PoliceHistory

The Police History Society is delighted to preview the front cover of this year's Journal which will be landing slightly earlier than normal this year, due to conference being earlier. This year marks our 40th anniversary, so we are celebrating our ruby anniversary with a change of cover colour.

#BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2025 #BlackBritishHistory

#Hivemind time again! We've had an enquiry about the medals of this smart-looking chap (Grenadier Guards c. Boer War, then Met 1903-1928, plus army for the First World War), photographed in Elephant and Castle. Any thoughts @nationalarmymuseum.bsky.social @se1.news and @kennintonrunoff.bsky.social?

Only a month til this year’s Police History Society Conference, so still time to book if you’re quick!Includes talks on policing in America and Germany, the impact of WWII on @citypolice.bsky.social and @mpsheritage.bsky.social on 150 years of the Crime Museum www.policehistorysociety.com/conference

She and Tory MP Nancy Astor joined forces to help save the Met's women patrols when the Home Office threatened them with abolition as part of the 'Geddes Axe' package of cost-cutting measures in 1922.

After his colleague was shot dead... he got a new partner... a four-legged one! 🐕 POLICE DOG (1955) 10:30am Stars #JoanRice #TimTurner #SandraDorne #CharlesVictor and Rex III. Drama #TPTVsubtitles

For us, every day is #EmergencyServicesDay - we're spending it discussing our 2026 exhibition (stay tuned!), educating new officers on Met history, giving tours of our #CM150 exhibition, advising fellow police historians from Teeside, putting the finishing touches to a display at Hendon ... #999Day

Slightly diminish a book: And Then There Was One

He's back on the beat tomorrow! Beginning Monday 8th September #JackWarner is DIXON OF DOCK GREEN. Every weekday at 12noon on #TalkingPicturesTV

Threading the wonderful day-by-day look at the coverage of the #GreatTrainRobbery by @hannahhowe.bsky.social - we wish we had this many newspaper cuttings on the topic so we could join in! bsky.app/profile/hann...

We are spoilt for choice for the letter P in our #1832AtoZ – Parliament, politics, petitions... – but we are starting with P for Peel and for party, looking at the Conservative leader’s role in the creation of the modern Conservative party: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2020/02/05/s...

This sort of comes into my #OnePlaceStudy as they were remanded at Linslade Court House for trial at Aylesbury. Then in Bucks, the robbery was on the Linslade border, so extra police were stationed there throughout the search. I will be writing about the Court House and Police Station very soon!

At 3 am #OnThisDay in 1963 a London gang used a fake signal in Buckinghamshire to stop the London-bound mail train in what became known as the Great Train Robbery. Fingerprint evidence from the gang's hideout features in our #CM150 exhibition (September tickets now available). #OTD #truecrime

#OnThisDay in 2006 surveillance began for Operation Overt. This is a replica of one of the devices from the plot that operation foiled, made by the Met's Bomb Data Centre especially for our collections and on display in our #CM150 exhibition at Sidcup. #OTD #OnThisDayInHistory

#cm150 #truecrime #museums #fridayfeeling vm.tiktok.com/ZNd96JfF4/

In Manchester's suburbs #OnThisDay in 1876 burglar Charles Peace shot PC Nicholas Cock, who died of his wounds the following day. Peace's crimes appear in our #CM150 exhibition since he was arrested in Blackheath on 10 October 1878 by PC Edward Robinson. #truecrime #OTD #OnThisDayInHistory

It's new tickets day! Tour slots have just been released for September for our #CM150 exhibition, including two slots for Saturday 27th September. #Friyay #museums #truecrime #FridayFeeling www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/metropolit...

Born in Harrogate in 1837, Corporal Robert Grant was awarded the VC for actions with the 5th Regiment of Foot at Alambagh during the Indian Rebellion. He left the army after 10 years' service and was a labourer when he joined the Met #OnThisDay in 1864, serving until his death in 1867. #YorkshireDay