Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Rosalind Crone and Daniel Weinbren.

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Figures

Figure 1: Mary Evans/Peter Higginbotham Collection.

Figure 2: https://www.bl.uk/ collection-items/ the-bottle--a-series-of-temperance-themed-illustrations-by-george-cruikshank-with-poetry-by-charles-mackay https://creativecommons.org/ publicdomain/ mark/ 1.0 /

Figure 3: Prisoners at exercise at Pentonville Prison in the late 1850s. From: Henry Mayhew and John Binny, The Criminal Prisons of London (London, 1862). Image: Courtesy: Rosalind Crone.

Figure 4:Classrooms at Parkhurst Juvenile Prison in 1847. © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans.

Figure 5: Pages from the schoolmaster’s journal at Littledean House of Correction, Gloucestershire. Gloucestershire Archives, Schoolmasters’ journals, Littledean House of Correction, Gloucestershire, 1844-1877, Q/Gli/22/2: 1848-1852 https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/ archives/

Figure 6: Convict life at Portland. Illustration for The Graphic, 31 March 1883. Bridgeman Education

Figures 8 and 9: Mrs Trimmer’s Charity School Spelling Book https://www.bl.uk/ collection-items/ the-charity-school-spelling-bookhttps://creativecommons.org/ publicdomain/ mark/ 1.0/

Figure 10: The new gaol at Reading. Illustration for the Illustrated London News. Private Collection Look and Learn/Illustrated Papers Collection/Bridgeman Images.

Figure 11: Misconduct book from Chester City Gaol. Cheshire Archives, QAG/35 copyright ©Cheshire Archives and Local Studies.

Figure 12: The chapel, on the ‘separate system’ at Pentonville Prison. Photographic image: Granger/Shutterstock.

Figure 13: Women who had given birth shortly before entering prison or who gave birth in prison. From: Henry Mayhew and John Binny, The Criminal Prisons of London (London, 1862). Image: Courtesy: Rosalind Crone.

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