Stories
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
- Photo story
Generation portraits
Photographer Julian Germain’s major project focusing on portraits of multi-generational families came to a sudden halt during the various Covid-19 lockdowns. Here families celebrate coming together again in words and images.
Catalogue
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Newgate Prison, London: male prisoners taking exercise by walking around the prison yard. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1873.
Fitzgerald, Michael, active 1871-1891.Date: 1873Reference: 37852i- Pictures
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Newgate Prison, London: visitors talking to prisoners through a grill. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1873, after M. Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald, Michael, active 1871-1891.Date: [1873]Reference: 37724i- Books
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Prison rules (convict prisons) : draft of rules proposed to be made under the Prison Act, 1898.
Great Britain. Home Office.Date: 1899- Books
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Prison rules (local prisons) : draft of rules proposed to be made under the Prison Act, 1898.
Great Britain. Home Office.Date: 1899- Books
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The matchless rogue: or, an account of the contrivances, cheats, stratagems and amours of Tom Merryman, commonly called, Newgate Tom: Who Stiled Himself, Baron of Bridewell, Viscount of New-Prison, Earl of Holborn-Hill, Marquils of Newgate, and Duke of Tyburn. With A particular Detail of his Life and Actions, both Comical and Tragical, from the Time of his Birth in Newgate, to the Hour of his Unhappy Exit at Tyburn.
Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]