Thanks to funding from BA/Jisc Digital Research in the Humanities, the Digital Panopticon has a new baby project!
Tattooing has a long history, but the practice increased significantly in Britain and Australia in the nineteenth century, when a growing number of criminal convicts acquired tattoos. Their many meanings include expressions of love, hope, pain, defiance, fraternity, and religious commitment, and aspirations […]
A guest post by Emma Barrett, University of Sheffield.
On what basis were people sentenced to death in late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century England? Between 1780 and 1880, 253 defendants were convicted of murder and sentenced to death at the Old Bailey, but only 28% were executed; instead, many were imprisoned, transported or pardoned. My initial research hypothesis focused on gender as the […]
The First Fleet entering Port Jackson (26 January 1788, Wikimedia Commons).
Digital Panopticon PhD student Emma Watkins (University of Liverpool) has created an educational resource on transportation for A-Level students. Throughout 2017, Emma developed this resource by running schools […]
To complement the ‘Criminal Lives, 1780-1925: Punishing Old Bailey Convicts’ exhibition at the London Metropolitan Archives, the AHRC Digital Panopticon team are contributing a free public events programme. Event information and booking details can be found below. We hope to see you at the LMA in Spring 2018!
20 Dec 2017
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The convict biographies of Thomas Limpus, Charlotte Walker, Annie Sullivan, William Buckley, Mark Jeffrey and Ikey Solomons will be exhibited in the latest Bob Shoemaker and Tim Hitchcock collaboration ‘Criminal Lives, 1780-1925: Punishing Old Bailey Convicts’. After nine months of picture researching, object sourcing, narrative writing and caption creating, the exhibition plan has been passed to the London Metropolitan Archive’s […]
Between 16th and 21st July 2017, Dr Will Pooley (The University of Bristol), recipient of a British Academy Rising Star Public Engagement Award, convened a conference on ‘Creative Histories’ at the Clifton Pavillion, Bristol Zoo Gardens. Amidst a highly diverse programme, there […]
To mark completion of the four year AHRC funded project ‘The Digital Panopticon: The Global Impact of London Punishments’ we are hosting a three day conference. Join us at Liverpool’s St George’s Hall for three days of papers, round-tables, and events on the topic of crime and Punishment in Britain and Australia 1780-1925.
Date: Wednesday 13th- Friday 15th September […]
Digital Panopticon teamed up with the London Historians for a transportation themed ‘History in the Pub’ event, on 16 May at The Sir Christopher Hatton, London. We were joined by around 60-70 people for a lovely evening of talks, music and a quiz.
Lucy Williams told the wonderful story of convict […]
‘I beg for mercy; I am sorry for what I have done’
‘I was very heavy in liquor; I got this tankard and I did not know how’
‘It was extreme distress drove me to do it’
‘I declare myself righteous between God and myself’
‘I did not know my first husband was alive, as he had left me seventeen years’
‘I don’t know what […]
Henry Skewes
The Digital Panopticon team are getting out and about in May and June to talk eighteenth and nineteenth century criminal history and what it’s like to build a really, really big website!
Professor Tim Hitchcock and Lucy Williams will be hosting […]