Stories
- Article
Raising a baby in prison
Gary’s second child spent much of her babyhood in a prison mother-and-baby unit, after his wife was given a custodial sentence. Here he explores the family’s experiences of that time.
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
- 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.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Women Prisoners' Resource Centre
Date: c.1985Reference: SA/DRS/B/1/450aPart of: DrugScope- Books
Women political prisoners in Germany : narratives of self and captivity, 1915-91 / by Kim Richmond.
Richmond, KimDate: 2016- Pictures
Shanghai: three Chinese women prisoners locked at the neck into one cangue (portable pillory). Photograph, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 663411i- Pictures
- Online
Serbo-Turkish War: series of sketches including the convalescent hospital, the Chapel at Lazare and prisoners of war. Wood engraving.
Reference: 22118i- Books
Prisoners of ritual : an odyssey into female genital circumcision in Africa / Hanny Lightfoot-Klein.
Lightfoot-Klein, Hanny.Date: [1989], ©1989