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The Daily Sceptic 23 Oct 2024
Thomas Usk, author of The Testament of Love, in Newgate prison from where he was sentenced in 1388 to be drawn, hanged and then beheaded, and George Ashby, who wrote Complaint of a Prisoner in the ...
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Vive la difference

Islington Tribune 19 Sep 2024
Fry, who recognised the “sexualised nature” of the abuse women prisoners faced, opened a school at the City of London’s Newgate Prison in 1816 and persuaded the authorities to separate women from men.
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Shoplifting is now at record levels. Here’s how it went from a crime punishable by ...

The Conversation 05 Sep 2024
she was executed at Newgate prison in the City of London on July 16 1714 ... The presiding magistrate, Claud Mullins, refused to send her to prison “because he suggested the firm did not take proper precautions to prevent their goods from being stolen”.
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One of Britain’s most evil killers is a woman you’ve never heard of

Metro UK 02 Sep 2024
Newgate Prison was the execution capital of England and between 1783 and 1902, with a total of 1,169 people were put to death there (Picture ... Dyer was sentenced to death and hanged at Newgate prison on 10 June 1896 at 9am.
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I went on a pub crawl to five of London

The Daily Mail 30 Jul 2024
The Viaduct Tavern sits opposite the Old Bailey and is built on the site of Newgate Prison ... The pub is built on the site of Newgate Prison and downstairs are old 'cells' where prisoners are said to have been kept.
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The 50 best podcasts to listen to this summer...  from gripping true crime to soul-baring...

The Daily Mail 28 Jun 2024
Two years later, her 21-year-old husband Leo was convicted and sentenced to life in prison ... After their arrest, they were held in Newgate Prison and Charles Dickens wrote an account of them in the jail.
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Josephine Butler: the forgotten feminist who fought the UK police – and their genital inspections

The Guardian 27 Jun 2024
... her only beloved daughter in a tragic accident and was already involved in what was known as “rescue work”; she had employed a woman freed from Newgate prison after serving a sentence for infanticide.
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No Sir Lancelot: A Good Deliverance, by Toby Clements, reviewed

The Spectator 25 Jun 2024
The story begins in 1468 with the elderly man’s arrest and imprisonment in Newgate Prison ... interruptions and frequent longeurs afforded by a prison cell, often feels patchy and half-hearted.&nbsp;.
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The story of James and John – the last two men to be hanged for homosexuality

Metro UK 17 Jun 2024
The last of those, James Pratt and John Smith, were hanged at the infamous Newgate prison in November of that year ... Newgate Prison was a prison in London, at the corner of Newgate Street and Old Bailey just inside the City of London (Picture.
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The Observer 09 Jun 2024
Computer Weekly exposed which scandal in 2009?. Which lake contains about one-fifth of the fresh water on Earth’s surface? ... Grupo Globo is a media giant from which country? ... Houses of Parliament; Newgate prison; Skerne Bridge; Salamanca? ... Lake Baikal ... .
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B.C. society celebrates 85 years of helping incarcerated women

North Shore News 21 May 2024
In doing so, the Elizabeth Fry Society of Vancouver (EFry) carries on a legacy dating back 211&nbsp;years to when Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845) began visiting female inmates at London, England’s Newgate Prison in 1813.
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Scrawled outpourings of love and defiance

The Spectator 11 Apr 2024
She begins with the Gordon Riots of June 1780 when, nine years before the French stormed the Paris Bastille, thousands of enraged Londoners overran Newgate Prison, freeing those inside and setting much of it alight.
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Chris Bryant: ‘I’m quite an old-fashioned gay, in a way’

The Observer 03 Mar 2024
But then I discovered not only that Charles Dickens visited Newgate prison when they were held there, but also the government had literally just appointed the first inspectors of prisons ... prison ship.
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James and John by Chris Bryant review — the last men to be hanged for sodomy

The Times/The Sunday Times 28 Feb 2024
In 1835 an aspirant young journalist visited Newgate prison. He was writing sketches of London life under the pseudonym of Boz — his real name of Charles Dickens was still unknown to the world ... Two younger men stood apart, as still as statues ... .
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James and John: A True Story of Prejudice and Murder by Chris Bryant - Hanged for the unmentionable crime of sodomy

The Irish Times 17 Feb 2024
The terrifying scene was the city’s dankly medieval Newgate prison, and Dickens was visiting this fearful place for a sight of James Pratt and John Smith, who were due to be executed imminently for ...

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