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Exploring the history of prisoner education
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Acknowledgements

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

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Figure 1: Prison library at Strangeways, Manchester, 1910: Manchester Libraries Information and Archives https://secure.manchester.gov.uk/ terms

Figures 2 and 3: Southgate prison records: Devon Heritage Centre, Southgate Prison book, ECA Book 251 devonarchives@swheritage.org.uk

Figure 4: Surrey House of Correction ‘Crank Labour’: Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom. Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International — CC BY 4.0

Figure 5: The dormitory at Coldbath Fields Prison, London. From: Henry Mayhew and John Binny, The Criminal Prisons of London (London, 1862). Image: Courtesy: Rosalind Crone

Figure 6: Frederick Hill: H. Manesse https://www.nationalgalleries.org/ https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc/ 4.0/

Figure 7: Private Collection © Look and Learn/Bridgeman Images

Figure 9: Front cover of The Saturday Magazine, published by the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge held by British Library.

Figure 10: Separate cell in Brixton. From Henry Mayhew and John Binny, The Criminal Prisons of London (London, 1862). Image: Courtesy: Rosalind Crone.

Figure 11: Image of a small prison: Hulton Archive/Stringer/Getty Images.

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