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  • Zanzibar’s Prison Island: The Prison That Never Was, by Sarah Longair

    Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on October 23, 2014 My initial research on peculiar history of Zanzibar’s so-called Prison Island as part of the Carceral Archipelago project began last year delving into the records in the National Archives and the...

  • The Carceral Archipelago conference – an early career perspective

    Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on September 28, 2015 By Jennie Jeppesen.

  • Convicts and other (“free” and “unfree”) workers. Views from the First ELHN Conference

    Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on December 19, 2015 How can we frame convict labour in the broader context of entangled labour relations? This is one of the key-questions in the Carceral Archipelago project, which seeks to understand how (especially...

  • Life-Writing, Prisoners of War and the Carceral Archipelago

    Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on November 10, 2015 by Grace Huxford Lecturer in Nineteenth/Twentieth Century History, University of Bristol At the Carceral Archipelago conference held in September at the University of Leicester, I delivered a paper on...

  • Convicts and the Sea

    Blog about the influence of naval practice on the punishment of convicts on the royal dockyard in Gibraltar in the nineteenth century.

  • Attitudes to Convict Ancestry: Documentary Review

    Posted by Katy Roscoe in Carceral Archipelago on December 2, 2016 In this blog post I review the documentary ‘A Secret History of my Family: Gadbury Sisters’ , which aired in 2016, and discuss how it reflects changing attitudes to convict ancestry amongst British and...

  • The closed prison and the memory of anywhere-but-here

    Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on March 21, 2016 The prison of the wolvenplein (Wolves Square), located in the city centre of Utrecht (The Netherlands), closed down in June 2014 as part of the budget cuts that have also affected the prison administration.

  • The Platform recordings – trains, planes, automobiles and volunteers.

    Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on January 28, 2020   In 1974 John Kirby and Geoff Smith started ‘Platform’, a BBC Radio Leicester series about transport.

  • Spanish Pacific – the exhibition and the catalogue

    Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on June 18, 2014 During my research trip to Seville in January 2014, and then again in March, I had the opportunity to visit the exhibition Pacífico: España y la aventura de la Mar del Sur ( Pacific : Spain...

  • Carceral Archipelago: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 2

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

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