The Prison Twist

Exploring everything 'prison' from the 19th century with LJMU's 'Prison Voices' module.

[The Prison Twist @PrisonTwist]

My newest project with LJMU is now in full swing!

I’m back in the Nineteenth-Century, this time looking into the working-class memoir of John Robinson, a butler.

Come check it out!

[A Butlers View @ButlersView]

And, we are LIVE.

For the next six weeks, we will be exploring the life of Nineteenth-Century butler, John Robinson with LJMU's: #writinglives.

Check out the site here: https://t.co/dVVPNdYsw1

[The Prison Twist @PrisonTwist]

Ah. Alas, our #PrisonVoices journey is over!

The past few months have been full of convicts, prisons, penal colonies and accompanying literature.

But, of course, we’ll always have The Prison Twist: https://t.co/6K22BKLEkA

[The Prison Twist @PrisonTwist]

Happy New Year!
We’re back with one final #PrisonVoices Post and boy, if it isn’t a good one!

Come sailing with us as we visit an Australian penal colony, with The Secret River for company...

https://t.co/iEklDfzICw

[International Review of Social History @irsh_iisg]

Read the new International Review of Social @irsh_iisg Blog 'Convict labour and penal transportations in the history of 19th and 20th centuries empires' https://t.co/CgMB2Z1N79 introducing the new IRSH Special Issue, to read for free for a limited period  @IISG_Amsterdam

[Jeanette Sobey @yebosfaye]

Tate Gallery says of Gordon Bennett, Australian artist, 1955-2014,

that his artwork resists and debates racial stereotyping, and is

critical of Australia’s colonial history and postcolonial present.

[The Prison Twist @PrisonTwist]

Alongside Lady Visitor Miss Prior we discuss the #PrisonVoices of Millbank’s female inmates in Sarah Waters: Affinity w/some added help from our old friend Foucault.

Come take a walk: https://t.co/DRCSFghD8f

[London Museum @LDN_Museum]

Bird's-eye view of Millbank Prison, 1862 with central panopticon. Security or invasion of privacy? Explore this theme in The City Is Ours.

[Tate @Tate]

#TateBritain was built on the site of Millbank Prison... Here's what it looked like in the 1820s! #BehindTheArt

[The Prison Twist @PrisonTwist]

A matron and a convict walk into a prison...

It’s female #Prison_Voices this week as take a look at some prison memoirs.

You can too: https://t.co/uEyAdpvV2P

[Inside History Magazine @inside__history]

Working on our title article today. The trials of Lizzie Borden will focus on the media attention the case has had over time and her trials both contemporary and historically.

[Back in Time West London @OldLondonW14]

The Baby Parade at Wormwood Scrubs in 1885 - female convicts are allowed to give their babies some sunshine and fresh air. In 1902 the last female prisoner was transferred to Holloway.

[Whores of Yore @WhoresofYore]

In 1838, 300 female convicts of the Cascades Female Factory, Tasmania, protested their cruel treatment by mooning the Governor of Van Diemen when he visited the factory for a service. The Reverend William Bedford recorded the incident.

(Image by artist Peter Gouldthorpe)

[The Prison Twist @PrisonTwist]

This week we take to the London streets attempting to pick-a-pocket while we delve into the #prisonvoices of the Artful Dodgers!

Take a look: https://t.co/AlpcoWvI1L

[The Prison Twist @PrisonTwist]

A beautiful summary of Liverpool workhouse’s history can be viewed here: https://t.co/fUDVL7hIlf

Which details the workhouse layout, it’s occupants and even the fire that ravaged the building in 1862.

It’s definitely worth a read!

[The Prison Twist @PrisonTwist]

While we’re on the topic of Oliver Twist - Why don’t you take a look at Liverpool’s own workhouse, which stood on Brownlow Hill from 1834-1928.

The workhouse would be demolished in 1931, and replaced with, what is now, the Roman Catholic Church.

[Walter Mason @walterm]

A Social History of Charles Dickens and Oliver Twist https://t.co/uANGFrpMDH

[Helen Rogers @Conviction19c]

What the Dickens! What a fabulous blog by @SarahPassLJMU for @Prison_Voices @JMUEnglish @dap1955 @Dickens_Society @GEReadalong https://t.co/1viFVAvfI9

[The Prison Twist @PrisonTwist]

🎼 We’re... Reviewing, the situation... 🎼

All in a quest to decide if the career criminal Fagin, of Oliver Twist, really is a bad guy...

Help us decide, here: https://t.co/e6LDrb4qjL

[Dickensian London @dickens_london]

Inner courtyard of Newgate Prison.
Dickens devotes one of the Sketches by Boz to describing ‘A Visit to Newgate’. He visits the condemned cells and describes the thoughts of a prisoner awaiting execution.

[abbie @hssascho_prison]

New Post on Oliver Twist! 📚
Twisted Criminal Literature https://t.co/CuOBMZ1yMF via @wordpressdotcom