Crime, Punishment and Protest Through Time, c.1450-2004
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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

 

Twentieth Century

1900-1999

HMP Bristol

Welcome to the Prison Gallery at Learn History where we present a fascinating look at the prisons of this island from an angle rarely seen. Unless of course you are used to flying into the prison yard in a helicopter to help your mates escape!

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

 

Prisons of England and Wales.

 

Look out for:

 

Early prisons based on medieval castles,

 

Victorian Panopticon gaols

 

Prisons reusing old WW2 camps and bases

 

Modern designs

 

Contents
What is? Crime, Punishment, Protest

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, Peterloo, 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 and Wales

North, Midlands, Wales

 

South of England

 

HMP Acklington, Northumberland

HMP Altcourse, Lancashire

HMP Ashwell, Rutland

HMP Askham Grange

North Yorkshire

HMP Birmingham,

Warwickshire

HMP Blakenhurst,

Worcestershire

HMYOI Brinsford, Staffordshire

HMP Brockhill, Worcestershire

HMP Buckley Hall, Lancashire

HMP Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales

HMP Castington,

Northumberland

HMYOI Deerbolt,

County Durham

HMP Doncaster, South Yorkshire

HMP Drake Hall, Staffordshire

HMP Durham, County Durham

HMP Everthorpe & HMRC Wolds

East Yorkshire

HMP Featherstone, Staffordshire

HMP Forest Bank, Lancashire

HMP Foston Hall, Derbyshire

HMP Frankland, County Durham

HMP Full Sutton, North Yorkshire

HMP Garth, Lancashire

HMP Gartree, Leicestershire

HMP Haverigg, Cumbria

HMP Hewell Grange

Worcestershire

HMYOI Hindley,

Lancashire

HMP Holme House,

County Durham

HMP Hull,

East Yorkshire

HMP Kirkham, Lancashire

HMP Kirklevington Grange, N Yorks

HMP Lancaster Farms, Lancashire

HMP Leeds,

West Yorkshire

HMP Leicester, Leicestershire

HMP Lincoln, Lincolnshire

HMYOI Lindholme & HMP Moorlands (Closed)

South Yorkshire

HMP Liverpool, Lancashire

HMP Manchester, Lancashire

HMP Moorlands (Open)

South Yorkshire

HMP Morton Hall, Lincolnshire

HMP New Hall,

West Yorkshire

HMYOI Northallerton

North Yorkshire

HMP North Sea Camp, Lincolnshire

HMP Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

HMP Onley, Warwickshire

HMP Parc, Glamorgan, Wales

HMP Preston, Lancashire

HMP Ranby, Nottinghamshire

HMP Risley, Cheshire

HMP Shrewsbury, Shropshire

HMP Stafford, Staffordshire

HMP Stocken, Rutland

HMP Stoke Heath, Shropshire

HMP Styal,

Cheshire

HMP Sudbury, Derbyshire

HMP Swansea,

Glamorgan, Wales

HMP Swinfen Hall, Staffordshire

HMP Thorncross,

Lancashire

HMP Usk,

Gwent, Wales

HMP Wakefield,

West Yorkshire

HMP Wealstun,

West Yorkshire

HMYOI Wetherby, North Yorkshire

HMP Whatton, Nottinghamshire

HMP Wymott,

Lancashire

 

The Dandy Highwayman

The stocks as drawn by Hogarth

Riots @ Brixton, London, 1981

Peelers from the 1800s

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