(Description) Figure 6 Bound volumes of some of Charles Dickens’ works. Standing Order 118, sent to chaplains on 3 February 1864, ordered them to remove specific books from their libraries. These included, for example,: all of Charles Dickens’ books, William Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, The Newcomes, and Pendennis, Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Towers, George Eliot’s Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner.

Session 6: Education in a changing penal regime

This is a colour photograph of five books bound in red leather. Their titles are tooled in gold on the spines, and include Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, and Little Dorrit.