A Note from Reading's Governing Governor | |
List of illustrations | |
Timeline | |
The Old Reading Gaols | p. 17 |
The New Prison | p. 30 |
Punishments of Former Times | p. 44 |
Executions | p. 52 |
Prisoner C.3.3 Oscar Wilde | p. 77 |
Illustrations | p. 95 |
The Ballad of Reading Gaol | p. 103 |
Illustrations | p. 119 |
The Easter Rising and Internment | p. 127 |
Invisible Prisoners | p. 139 |
A Pioneering Borstal Correctional Centre | p. 144 |
Starting Again with a Clean Sheet | p. 148 |
Life as a Local Prison | p. 153 |
HM Remand Centre and Young Offender Institution | p. 159 |
'Reading Gaol' Today and in the Future | p. 165 |
Appendix | |
'Arrested Development' | p. 174 |
Rules for Prisoners (c.1850) | p. 181 |
Prison Dietary Scales (c.1850) | p. 183 |
List of Executions | p. 185 |
Primary Sources, Internet Sites and Select Bibliography | p. 187 |
Index | p. 189 |
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Pit of Shame : The Real Ballad of Reading Gaol
by Stokes, Anthony-
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