Shades of the Prison House – A History of Incarceration in the British Isles

Introduction Bonds of Iron Gaols Ordained Prisons, Peasants, and Pastons Bridewells, Counters and the Clink Higher than the Stars Treason in the Cheese Plague, Pudding and Pie A Newgate Pastoral The Ordinary and Extra-ordinary Gaol Delivery Diving into the Depths of Dungeons Flotsam and Jetsam Mr Bentham's Haunted House The Angel of the Prisons Mr Holford's Fattening-House Goodies and Noodles Silence or Separation The 'Model Prison' The Universal Syllabub of Philanthropic Twaddle Bleak House Top Marks Discipline and Deter The History and Romance of Crime Reaping and Sowing Kittle Cattle The Sins of our Fathers Suffer the Little Children Sanitising Death A Good and Useful Life The Pioneer Spirit Borstal Boy The Nutcracker Suite The Search for Security Crying Woolf Tea-Bags for the Chaplain The Old Imprisonment Blues Bibliography