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Everything you wanted to know: British prisons

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Dr Rosalind Crone answers all the key questions on the history of British prisons   Just how bad was life in Victorian prisons? How hard was hard labour, and how revolting was the food? In the latest in our series tackling the big questions on major historical topics, Dr Rosalind Crone responds to listener queries on the history of British prisons. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Eli Korthorn. Just how bad was life in a Victorian prison? How hard was hard labour and how disgusting was the food? Well, on today's Everything You Wanted to Know podcast, we'll be going behind bars to explore the history of British prisons with Dr. Rosalind

1:12.9

Crone. Putting your questions to Rosalind was our content director, David Musgrove.

1:18.9

Today I am joined by Dr Rosalind Crone, who is Senior Lecturer and History at the Open

1:25.0

University and Director of the Centre for the History

1:28.1

of Crime, Policing and Justice, and also project leader on the website, prisonhistory.org,

1:34.5

which is well worth visit and has lots of information there.

1:38.0

Now, Rosalind is joining us because we are doing the next in our Everything You Want to Know series,

1:43.8

and today we are looking at the history of the prison in Britain.

1:48.3

And just to remind listeners who aren't familiar with this, the way this series works is we've

1:53.4

asked you our listeners to come up with questions that you would like to know on the topic.

1:57.6

And we've also looked at the most popular internet search queries on the subject too. We've collated them all together, and I've passed them over to Rosalind to have a look at, and then we're going to run through them and hopefully give you a good introduction to the topic. So Roslyn, thank you very much for joining us. How are you this morning? Yeah, good, thanks. Thanks for having me on, Dave. Pleasure. Absolutely pleasure.

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