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A rioter in the Gordon Riots has a cudgel in his hand and Newgate Prison is on fire in the background. Etching attributed to J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: June 9th 1780Reference: 36239i- Books
Sakharov : a biography / by Richard Lourie.
Lourie, Richard, 1940-Date: [2002], ©2002- Pictures
Episodes in the last days of King Charles I. Engraving, 16--.
Date: [between 1650 and 1680?]Reference: 2629678i- Books
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Observations moral and political, particularly respecting the necessity of good order and religious oeconomy in our prisons. Occasioned by Fidelio's letters to the common council of London. In fifteen letters. by J. H. Esq.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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The conduct of the late administration examined. With an appendix, containing original and authentic documents. [Seven lines in Latin from Cicero]
Lloyd, Charles, 1735-1773.Date: 1767- Pictures
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The Bastille, Paris. Line engraving by J.F. Borgnet after J.M. Gudin (?).
Gudin, Jean Marie, approximately 1782-1824.Reference: 21512i- Books
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Memorial concerning the state of the prisoners on account of the late rebellion,
Dalrymple, David, Sir, approximately 1665-1721.Date: Anno Dom: 1716- Books
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Letters containing a sketch of the politics of France, from the thirty-first of May 1793. till the 10th of Thermidor, twenty-eighth of July 1794. And of the scenes which have passed in the prisons of Paris. By Helen Maria Williams.
Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827.Date: 1795- Books
Abortion, execution, and the consequences of taking life / James D. Slack.
Slack, James D., 1952-Date: [2009], ©2009- Pictures
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Maria-Theresa of Savoy-Carignan, Princess of Lamballe, is led out through the gates of La Force prison to the street in Paris where she is killed by the Revolutionary mob. Wood engraving.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 42840i- Pictures
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Torture in a Sicilian prison in Monreale: the prisoner has a tourniquet applied to his forehead. Wood engraving.
Reference: 43432i- Books
Koryagin : a man struggling for human dignity / Robert van Voren (ed.) ; with contributions by Dutch Parliamentarian Group in Defence of Koryagin, Dr. A Koryagin [and 6 others].
Date: 1987- Books
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Khrushchev's cold summer : Gulag returnees, crime, and the fate of reform after Stalin / Miriam Dobson.
Dobson, MiriamDate: 2009- Books
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A narrative of Col. Ethan Allen's captivity, from the time of his being taken by the British, near Montreal, on the 25th of September, 1775, to the time of his exchange, on the 6th of May, 1778. Containing his voyages and travels ... Interspersed with some political observations. Written by himself, and now published for the information of the curious, in all nations.
Allen, Ethan, 1738-1789.Date: 1780- Books
Pregnancy and power : a short history of reproductive politics in America / Rickie Solinger.
Solinger, Rickie, 1947-Date: [2005], ©2005- Books
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A narrative of Col. Ethan Allen's captivity, from the time of his being taken by the British, near Montreal, on the 25th day of September, in the year 1775, to the time of his exchange, on the 6th day of May, 1778: containing his voyages and travels ... Interspersed with some political observations. Written by himself, and now published for the information of the curious in all nations. [Two lines from Franeau's [i.e., Freneau's] American independence]
Allen, Ethan, 1738-1789.Date: M,DCC,LXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Sick of it! Volume 3 / a Disability Inside/Outside project.
Date: [2022]- Books
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Letters containing a sketch of the politics of France, from the thirty-first of May 1793, till the twenty-eighth of July 1794, and of the scenes which have passed in the prisons of Paris. By Helen Maria Williams.
Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827.Date: 1796- Books
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Letters containing a sketch of the politics of France, from the thirty-first of May 1793, till the twenty-eighth of July 1794, and of the scenes which have passed in the prisons of Paris. By Helen Maria Williams.
Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827.Date: 1796- Pictures
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The murder of Maria-Theresa of Savoy-Carignan, Princess of Lamballe: French revolutionaries dragging her naked, headless, body along the streets of Paris with her head on a pike. Etching by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig, 1815.
Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829.Date: 16 January 1815Reference: 42866i- Books
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Letters containing a sketch of the politics of France, from the thirty-first of May 1793, till the twenty-eighth of July 1794, and of the scenes which have passed in the prisons of Paris. By Helen Maria Williams. Vol.IV.
Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827.Date: 1796- Books
Les avenues de la République : souvenirs de F.-V. Raspail sur sa vie et sur son siècle, 1794-1878 / [présentés par] Yves Lemoine, Pierre Lenoël.
Raspail, F.-V. (François-Vincent), 1794-1878.Date: [1984], ©1984- Books
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Death and redemption : the Gulag and the shaping of Soviet society / Steven A. Barnes.
Barnes, Steven AnthonyDate: [2011], ©2011- Books
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Letters containing a sketch of the politics of France, from the thirty-first of May 1793, till the twenty-eighth of July 1794, and of the scenes which have passed in the prisons of Paris. By Helen Maria Williams. Vols. I. and II.
Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827.Date: 1796- Books
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Seven letters to the Common Council of the City of London, and one to the livery, relative to their committees, the expenditure of the City cash, Black Friars Bridge, the state of the prisons, Court of Conscience Debtors, and the partial Distribution of Justice to them; with Some Observations on the bad Policy and Inhumanity, of keeping such Multitudes in Confinement. By Fidelio, a member of the court.
Fidelio.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]