Crime, punishment and protest is one of the fastest-growing GCSE history courses in England and Wales. It is a study in development over a period of over 500 years, and part of the Schools History Project (SHP) GCSE syllabus.

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Early Modern Britain

1500-1750

Industrial Britain

1750-1900

HMP Bristol

The gallery is divided into two sections, geographically. As you browse the pictures, try and work out what era the prison was built.

You learn what crimes have made the news through time - and what the authorities have tried to do about them!

What has made the people of this island rise up and demand change? You'll study the protest movements from Kett through to the Poll Tax Protests.

Have we gone 'soft' on crime? You will also explore how our attitudes to punishment have changed over the centuries.

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How have these changed? Crime, Protest, Punishment and Policing.

What happened in?

Early-Modern

c.1500-1750

Kett's Rebellion, Pilgrimage of Grace, Gunpowder Plot, Vagabonds, Poaching, Smuggling, Highwaymen, Witchcraft, Corporal Punishment, Bloody Code........more

Industrial Britain

c.1750-1900

Theft and robbery, Poverty, Police, Transportation, Prisons, Luddites, Swing Riots, Chartism, Prison Reformers, Dock Strike........more

Twentieth Century

1900-2000

Suffrage Movement, Conscientious Objectors, General Strike, Hanging, Youth Detention, Fingerprinting, DNA, Surveillance, Drug Crime, Hooliganism, Community Service, Race Crime.........more

Who were?

Robert Aske, Matthew Hopkins, Jonathan Wild, Dick Turpin, John Howard, Elizabeth Fry, Derek Bentley........more

Prisons of England and Wales

North, Midlands, Wales

South of England