Nineteenth-Century Criminal Tattoos Project
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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 […]