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@TranscriBentham @ourcriminalpast As it evolved in Tasmania's Port Arthur prison (image: https://portarthur.org.au/separate-prison/):
@BritSocCrim The next Yorkshire & Humberside regional group meeting is at Sheffield Hallam on Weds 8 March 2023: theme is Social Justice Research: Making Change Happen? contact me for more information or to submit abstract!
Join Dr Maya Avis (Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany) for: "Geopolitics of Aerial Surveillance in Palestine/Israel"
The first free seminar, as part of the @CrimSocHull Criminology, Sociology & Policing, Rising Star Guest Speaker Series, 2023.
📅 8th February 23
Bentham wrote to William Pitt (1759–1806) #onthisday in 1791, sending in two parts his 'Outline of the Plan of Construction of a Panopticon Penitentiary House'—detailing first the panopticon's basic principles, and second some of his own obligations as its potential governor:
Applications for the 2023 - 25 Past & Present #ECR Scholarships in #SocialHistory tenable @ihr_history have now opened.
Deadline this year is 28th Feb 2023.
Full details on how to apply are here:
https://www.history.ac.uk/join-ihr/fellowships/junior-fellowships/past-present
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Applications are open for The New Curators Project 2023!
For more information visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/collections/special-collections/schools-and-outreach/new-curators-project
Looking to kick start your #FamilyHistory journey this year?
Here are 6 essentials you need to get going with your #Genealogy.
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Today we visited Stockwell Head, @PoliceHinckley first police station from 1842-1937. Truly historic building. Well what’s left of it. @CCRobNixon @LeicsFedChair @leicspolice
Amazing new @HistoryWO website launches today!
This digital magazine is a platform for everyone - to write, read, listen to and discuss radical history and its place in the world today.
Take a look >
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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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