While they were cast out of society, they succeeded in creating their own subculture, one which offered them 'emotional and ...

Mary Anne McCracken had frequently argued for improvements in women’s lives. In the second half of the 19th century ... and went to prison. From the start of the 20th century to the beginning ...

Amelia’s plea of insanity was rejected by the court and she was hanged at Newgate Prison on 10 June 1896. Marriage for working-class women was an economic necessity in 19th-century Britain ...

An illustration based on a mid-19th Century painting, showing a largely fictionalised version of her Bible readings to women and child inmates and prison visitors Elizabeth Fry's plan had three ...

A murky tale of misogyny and class prejudice has been unearthed from the ledgers of Cambridge University's prison. Throughout the 19th Century, it locked up women it suspected of soliciting ...

Young working class women who were seen strolling with undergraduates after dark were imprisoned under an Elizabethan charter ...

The Late Great Planet Earth' was a huge bestseller. Its message about the Book of Revelation explains why evangelical ...

Talitha LeFlouria presented her research about “the South’s most inconspicuous workforce” — incarcerated Black women — Tuesday ... gang systems of late 19th-century Georgia.