Newgate: The Prison Wall That London Built Into Its Own Streets

For more than seven hundred years, London kept its darkest institution not on the edge of the city but in the middle of it. Newgate was a Roman gate that became a dungeon, a dungeon that became the most feared address in the English-speaking world, and a building that London burned, rebuilt, and finally absorbed into its own streets. This is the story of how a prison shaped a city's laws, its literature, and its idea of justice, and why, even now, London never quite tore it down.

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