Crime in England, 1815-1880 provides a unique insight into views on crime and criminality
and the operation of the criminal justice system in England from the early to the late …

This article interrogates historiographical debates over discipline and charity in the penal
reform era. We cannot evaluate philanthropy solely in terms of class discipline or …

On 24 August 1849 the prominent Chartist publisher Henry Hetherington died aged fifty-
seven, another victim of the cholera epidemic sweeping London. As the eulogy by his friend …

Despite growing interest in “the reading experience,” most studies examine avid and
accomplished readers. We know little of the responses of working-class readers targeted by …

In this article I explore the relationship between mass culture, subjectivity, and the crook life
story between the wars. In so doing I suggest new ways of thinking about the transformation …

Through the biographies of eighty-five travellers, this dissertation traces the history of the
acquisition of tattoos as markers of cultural hybridity crafted through processes of initiation …

Focusing on the interaction between teachers and scholars, this book provides an intimate
account of" ragged schools" that challenges existing scholarship on evangelical child-saving …

This article explores the emergence of schemes for educating prisoners during the first half
of the nineteenth century, focusing on the programme of instruction at Reading Gaol during …

As mass digitization brings new opportunities for analysing criminal and convict records, this
article considers how we can recover the personal histories of the convicted. It proposes …

Since the late nineteenth-century works of criminologists Lombroso and Lacassagne, tattoos
in Europe have been commonly associated with deviant bodies. Like many other studies of …