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  • Remembering Exile and Transportation: some thoughts from Cape Town

    Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on November 2, 2014   Before I began T he Carceral Archipelago project , my research was loosely centred on the history of Indian Ocean penal settlements and colonies, from the late nineteenth century to the Second World War.

  • Comparisons and Connections (part 1)

    Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on March 2, 2015 In her last blog (https://staffblogs.le.ac.

  • The largest prison in the world

    Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on December 19, 2014 Several days ago, I broke from reading through the notes of nineteenth-century Russian penal inspectors to admire the 23rd edition of the International Prison News Digest , a publication of the Institute...

  • Convicts, Collecting and Knowledge Production in the Nineteenth Century

    Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on July 27, 2015 In previous blogs, I have explored some of the circulations and connections that linked nations, colonies and empires, and wove together practices of punishment and penal labour across polities and imperial spaces.

  • Protection for Whom? Aboriginal rights in the Swan River Colony

    Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on May 15, 2016 by Kellie Moss   Captain Stirling’s exploring party 50 miles up the Swan River, Western Australia, March, 1827 http://nla.gov.au/nla.

  • The “Pains of Imprisonment”: an historical sociology of penal transportation?

    Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on November 11, 2016   A few years ago, the eminent scholar of the Russian Gulag , Professor Judith Pallot , challenged me to consider the relevance of the sociology of incarceration as a means of understanding convict...

  • Forced Labour and Shifting Borders

    Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on January 10, 2016 Some may argue (for good reason) that the collapse of space and time is a commonplace condition of twenty-first century life.

  • Adrian Mole material exhibited alongside new musical adaptation

    The world premiere of Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ The Musical by Leicester’s Curve Theatre will be accompanied by an exhibition of previously unseen material from the University's Special Collections.

  • Lessons to learn from Leicester success in urban policy

    With a Premier League winning football team and World Snooker Champion to its name, eyes have turned to Leicester as a force to be reckoned with in the sporting world.

  • People and Places

    Archaeology and Ancient History at Leicester's Producing People research theme on the making of bodies and personhood from a range of different perspectives, with key projects including Hellenistic Women and Richard III.

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