Amelia’s plea of insanity was rejected by the court and she was hanged at Newgate Prison on 10 June 1896. Marriage for working-class women was an economic necessity in 19th-century Britain ...

A murky tale of misogyny and class prejudice has been unearthed from the ledgers of Cambridge University's prison. Throughout the 19th Century, it locked up women it suspected of soliciting ...

In the late 19th century, a woman named Sarah Howe concocted an elaborate hoax known as the Ladies’ Deposit Company that ...

Prison reform and the penitentiary itself had become deeply woven into the national fabric. The content in the 19th Century Prison Reform Collection is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of ...