Resources

Below is a list of resources that have come to form many of the artist's research for the Prison Residencies 2021. We invite you to delve into the links and find out more about the prison system, Victorian England, and women's welfare within a prison setting.

Historical Resources:

British Newspaper Archive - https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
Ancestry, a great website for finding names and documents to print - https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
Internet Archive - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.216545/page/n9/mode/2up
The National Archives - https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/prisoners-or-prison-staff/
Taunton information - https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/82e6b037-6591-4c85-80d7-36f9a44fc31b
South West Archives (not all documents are able to be viewed online) - https://swheritage.org.uk/
History of HMP Shepton - https://www.sheptonmalletprison.com/plan-your-day/history/
Muse - https://muse.jhu.edu/article/771434/summary
Criminal Historian How did prisoners communicate - https://www.criminalhistorian.com/how-victorian-prisoners-communicated/
BBC - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z8bd3k7/revision/1
The Treatment of women - https://brewminate.com/the-treatment-of-women-in-prison-in-the-19th-century/
The internet archive - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.216545/page/n9/mode/2up
Dictionary of Victorian London - http://victorianlondon.org/publications5/prisons-07.htm
JSTOR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/650199?mag=treadmills-were-meant-to-be-atonement-machines
JSTOR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/650199?mag=treadmills-were-meant-to-be-atonement-machines
Warwick a learning source about Victorian prisons-https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/research/current/prisoners/toolkit/regform/resourcespage/ .pdf
Women suffragette colours - militancy to achieve change - https://theconversation.com/what-is-suffragette-white-the-colour-has-a-110-year-history-as-a-protest-tool-158957
Prisoners and Solitude - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5053369/

Books:

A history of women's prison's in England, By Susan Menis - https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Womens-Prisons-England/dp/1527541835
Book of Symbols. The Book Of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images (The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism) Hardcover – Illustrated, 13 Nov. 2010 by Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (Author). ISBN: 978-3-8365-1448-4. P. 634. PRISON.