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Really hope @CityPolice make the right decision over the precious City of London Police Museum. These museums have so much to offer their forces @PoliceChiefs https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/city-of-london-police-museum-risks-staying-closed-b1016904.html
It's GREAT to have another wonderful prison museum featured in our #CollectionoftheMonth. This time it's Dartmoor Prison Museum which tells the story of the infamous convict establishment. Find out more at https://www.capcollections.org.uk/home/cap-collections-of-the-month/
Roy Hackett was a civil rights hero – everyone in Britain should know his name | Olivette Otele https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/03/roy-hackett-civil-rights-hero-britain-bristol-bus-boycott?CMP=share_btn_tw
Did you know that we also have dedicated World War I and World War II areas within Glenside Hospital Museum?
We’re open today for visitors from 10-1pm. No need to book tickets, we have space! 😊
#heritageisopen #bristol #bristolmuseums
The Medieval parade has taken place down High Street and the event is now open!
Let the Medieval Mayhem begin!
📣 Our latest Archives e-newsletter dropped into subscribers' inboxes this week ➡️ https://orlo.uk/BoEjt
In this issue we look at a vengeful poem, a scrapbook donation relating to the Holmes family of Nunburnholme, the renowned tightrope dancers Nicolo & Antonio Plege, & more!
It’s Medieval Mayhem at the Museums Quarter this weekend!
Here’s what to expect… https://www.hcandl.co.uk/medieval-mayhem
#ACEsupported (1/10)
This image is shocking. Even more so next to an image of a Wandsworth prison cell from the late 1850s👇. The hand crank has gone, but little else has changed. As Dostoevsky famously wrote: 'The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.' https://twitter.com/robroballen/status/1552908625013874691
Showing thigh, too! Outrageous. https://twitter.com/Nymph_du_Pave/status/1552304982430429195
Latest Blogs
Heroes and villains: conflicting attitudes to war veterans in peacetime
May 19, 2022How real were the fears that brutalised and battle-scarred soldiers returning from the First World War had developed a propensity for violence and criminality? Dr Ashley Borrett looks at the city of Hull to find out how people responded to war veterans in peacetime.
19 May 1897 – Oscar Wilde is released from prison
May 19, 202219 May 2022 marks 125 years since Oscar Wilde was released from prison. Professor Helen Johnston recounts the criminal past of the notorious Irish poet and playwright.
Criminal records as a way of introducing archives to children
August 25, 2021Hannah Salisbury, Community and Learning Officer at Suffolk Archives, explains how new learning resources on crime and punishment are being used to introduce younger children to the fascinating world of historical archives.
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