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

 

South of England

North, Midlands, Wales

 

South of England

 

HMP Albany,

Isle of Wight

HMP/YOI Ashfield,

County of Bristol

HMP Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

HMP Bedford,

Bedfordshire

HMP Belmarsh,

Kent

HMP Blantyre House,

Kent

HMP Blundeston, Suffolk

HMP Horfield,

County of Bristol

HMP Brixton,

Surrey

Broadmoor Hospital, Berkshire

HMP Bullwood Hall,

Essex

HMP Camp Hill,

Isle of Wight

HMP Channingswood Devon

HMP Coldingley, Surrey

HMP Cookhamwood

Kent

HMP Dartmoor,

Devon

HMP Dorchester, Dorset

HMIRC Dover,

Kent

HMP Downview & HMP Highdown, Surrey

HMP East Sutton Pk,

 Kent

HMP Eastwood Park, Gloucestershire

HMP Elmley, HMP Standford Hill, HMP Swaleside,

Kent

HMP Erlestoke, Wiltshire

HMP/YOI Feltham, Middlesex

HMP Ford,

West Sussex

HMP Grendon,

Buckinghamshire

HMP Guy's Marsh,

Dorset

HMIRC Haslar,

Hampshire

HMP Highpoint, Suffolk

HMP Hollesley Bay, Suffolk

HMP Holloway,

Middlesex

HMP Huntercombe,

Oxfordshire

HMP Kingston, Hampshire

HMP Latchmere

House, Surrey

HMP Lewes,

East Sussex

HMP Leyhill, Gloucestershire

HMP Littlehey, Huntingdonshire

HMP Maidstone,

Kent

HMP Parkhurst,

Isle of Wight

HMP Pentonville,

Middlesex

HMYOI Portland,

Dorset

HMP Rochester,

Kent

HMP Send,

Surrey

HMP The Mount, Hertfordshire

HMP The Verne, Dorset

HMP The Weare, Dorset

HMP Wandsworth, Surrey

HMYOI Warren Hill, Suffolk

HMP Wayland, Norfolk

HMP Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

HMP Whitemoor, Cambridgeshire

HMP Winchester, Hampshire

HMP Woodhill,

Buckinghamshire

HMP Wormwood Scrubs,

Middlesex

 

The Dandy Highwayman

The stocks as drawn by Hogarth

Riots @ Brixton, London, 1981

Peelers from the 1800s

Portland Bill, Dorset

Enlarge this picture. Why are there two prisons and a young offenders institution in this location?

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