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Exploring the history of prisoner education
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This free course was written by Rosalind Crone and Daniel Weinbren.

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Figure 1: Photograph: © The Open University

Figure 2: Horsley House of Correction, Registers of prisoners. courtesy Gloucestershire Archives https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/ archives/

Figure 3: Wymondham Bridewell in Norfolk https://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/ File:Cmglee_Wymondham_Heritage_Museum.jpg https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 4.0/ deed.en

Figure 4: courtesy Preston Digital Archive

Figure 5: Sarah Martin, Private Collection/Bridgeman Images

Figure 6: A separate cell at Pentonville Prison. From Henry Mayhew and John Binny, The Criminal Prisons of London (London, 1862) Image; Courtesy Rosalind Crone

Figure 7: Girls’ schoolroom at Tothill. From Henry Mayhew and John Binny, The Criminal Prisons of London (London, 1862) Image; Courtesy Rosalind Crone

Figure 8: Leicester Chronicle, 9 July 1842. Private Collection / Peter Jackson Collection/Bridgeman Images

Figure 9: advertisement: Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 24 April 1852.

Figure 10: A letter of application from John Sutton Moore. Buckinghamshire Archives archives.buckinghamshire.gov.uk

Figure 11: The chapel on board the Defence prison hulk at Woolwich. From Henry Mayhew and John Binny, The Criminal Prisons of London (London, 1862) Image; Courtesy Rosalind Crone.

Figure 12: The boys’ schoolroom at Tothill Fields. From: Henry Mayhew and John Binny, The Criminal Prisons of London (London, 1862). Image: Courtesy: Rosalind Crone.

Figure 13: Adult School at the Surrey House of Correction, Historical Picture Archive/Contributor/Getty Images

Figure 14: The treadwheel (or treadmill). From: Henry Mayhew and John Binny, The Criminal Prisons of London (London, 1862). Image Courtesy: Rosalind Crone

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