Elizabeth Berry was hanged at Walton Prison in 1887 after murdering her 11-year-old daughter, Edith. Working as a nurse at ...

In historian Robin Bernstein's new book "Freeman's Challenge," raising questions of the for-profit prison industry ...

The attack from all sides was so general, that they were almost instantaneously covered with mud.” These angry scenes took place outside the Middlesex Sessions House in Clerkenwell on 15 January 1819.

The Scottish Prison Service has previously described the new jail as having more in common with a school or college campus than with a 19th-century prison. Community groups from the surrounding ...

She is affiliated with Smart Justice for Women. Francis Markham receives funding ... of land values and the high cost of maintaining 19th-century prisons led to their closure and redevelopment ...

Analysis of dried plants from a colonial institution in 19th-century Australia reveals many ... then as a depot for unmarried women migrating to Australia, and later serving as an asylum for ...

The barracks is World Heritage Listed for its convict history, but is equally important for the story of 19th century Australian ... newly arrived unmarried women and girls who came to New South ...

Netflix Germany was one of the countries that recently participated in Next on Netflix 2025. Each participating region tuned in for a live presentation from Los Angeles showcasing upcoming local ...

“Woman in the Nineteenth Century”; they were, “Bright Circle” suggests, the foundations of the American women’s rights movement. “Bright Circle" brings together five women associated ...

Kansas has a new mural in its Statehouse honoring women who campaigned for voting rights for decades before the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted those rights ...

The legacies of Black women continue to be celebrated in named and traditional memorials, by generations of memorializers and ...

He believed the ‘Gibson Girl’ was the embodiment of the 19th century woman, someone who’s graceful, independent and elegant—starting with the larger-than-life look. “It has a more ...