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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.

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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.

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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.

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  • Millbank penitentiary, London. Engraving by J. Tingle after T. H. Shepherd.
  • Newgate Prison, London: visitors talking to prisoners through a grill. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1873, after M. Fitzgerald.
  • Middlesex House of Correction: male prisoners treading on the boards of a treadmill: in the foreground others sit resting. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1874, after M. Fitzgerald.
  • The Fleet Prison, London: the courtyard, with prisoners playing racquets while others stand and talk. Wood engraving by Fleming after A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.
  • Middlesex House of Correction: prisoners are sitting in a room sewing large pieces of cloth. Wood engraving by H.H. after M. Fitzgerald.
  • Middlesex House of Correction: prisoners sitting on long benches untangling bundles of twine (picking oakum); a guard raises his hand. Wood engraving. after M. Fitzgerald, 1874.
  • Newgate Gaol in the City of London: a long building with arches at the entrance and many windows. Engraving.
  • The criminal prisons of London, and scenes of prison life / by Henry Mayhew ... and John Binny.
  • An episode in the novel 'Paul Periwinkle': Colonel Sprightly in prison having his hair cut. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London: a prisoner in the chain-room where manacles are stored: he is cleaning them. Process print after Paul Renouard.
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