Imprisonment
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A fettered Samson sits blind and distraught in a gloomy clearing. Stipple engraving by T. Kirk after R. Westall.
Westall, Richard, 1765-1836.Reference: 18362i- E-books
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Beyond walls and cages : prisons, borders, and global crisis / edited by Jenna M. Loyd, Matt Mitchelson, Andrew Burridge.
Date: c2012- Books
The English Bastille : a history of Newgate Gaol and prison conditions in Britain, 1188-1902 / Anthony Babington ; foreword by James Callaghan.
Babington, Anthony.Date: 1971
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A convicted thief sits in prison with his distraught sister who has been acquitted. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1848Reference: 26040iPart of: The drunkard's children- Archives and manuscripts
A woman crying with a barred window behind her on a black ground
Bishop, Mary (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990Date: 29 September 1959Reference: 2870116iPart of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)