Dr Kat and Prisons of the Past

Today I'm combining my two keenest interests - history and true crime ("hi" to any fellow murderinos) - by looking at prisons of the past. I hope you enjoy this video and find it interesting! Please subscribe and click the bell icon to be updated about new videos. Also, if you want to get in touch, please comment down below or find me on social media: Instagram:   / katrina.marchant   Twitter:   / kat_marchant   Email: [email protected] Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [   • Greenery – Silent Partner (No Copyright Mu...  ] Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated): Ivan Lapper’s “Artist's Impression of the Tower of London Site as it looked in 1999” (1999). An engraving Of Newgate Prison, London by an unknown artist. Held by the British Library Shelfmark: Maps K Top 24.18.a http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/online... Prisoner in fetters, Marshalsea prison, London (1729) from “Gaols Committee: A Report from the Committee Appointed to Enquire into the State of the Gaols of this Kingdom: Relating to the Marshalsea Prison; and farther relating to the Fleet Prison, 1729”. [1]Also in Jerry White, "Pain and Degradation in Georgian London: Life in the Marshalsea Prison", History Workshop Journal, Volume 68, Issue 1, 2009 (pp. 69–98), p. 78. A 17th century print of Bridewell Prison as re-built after the Great Fire of London (1666) by an unknown artist. The prison was rebuilt 1666-7. A debtor in the Fleet Prison, London by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (first half of the 19th century). Photograph showing the entrance of the Clink Prison Museum, taken by The Clink Staff (2015) Illumination from “The Dunois Hours” showing St Leonard, Patron Saint of Prisoners, in Yates Thompson MS 3 f. 269v. Held by the British Library. William Hogarth, “The Prison Scene” from “A Rake's Progress” (1732-1735). Held by Sir John Soane's Museum. Portrait of King Edward IV by an unknown English artist (c. 1540). Held by the National Portrait Gallery. Portrait of King Richard III by an unknown artist (late 16th century). Held by the National Portrait Gallery. Ivan Lapper’s “Artist's Impression of the Tower of London Site as it looked in 1547” (1999). Portrait of King Henry VII by an unknown Netherlandish artist (1505). Held by the National Portrait Gallery. Photograph of the river, bridge and house at Chatsworth taken by Rob Bendall /Highfields (2002). John Gerard hanging in chains as part of his torture in the Tower of London (Credit: Public Domain). Photograph of The Salt Tower taken from Water Lane by Richard Nevell (2014). Photograph of the view of the entrance to the White Tower at the Tower of London (2014). © Cody Logan / Wikimedia Commons / "White Tower, London, August 2014" / CC BY-SA 4.0 Photograph of a relief carving by Hew Draper during his confinement in the Salt Tower in 1561. Taken in 2014 by Richard Nevell. Photograph of the reconstruction of Edward I of England apartments in St Thomas’ Tower at the Tower of London. Taken in 2007 by Bernard Gagnon. John Balliol and his wife from the Seton Armorial scanned from “Four Gothic Kings”, Elizabeth Hallam, ed. Hosted on Wikimedia. Hayward and Gascoyne plan of the Tower of London as it looked in 1597. Edouard Cibot, “Anne Boleyn at the Tower of London in the early stages of her arrest” (1835). Held by the Musée Rolin. Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh (Raleigh) by an unknown English artist (1588). Held by the National Portrait Gallery. Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh, attributed to William Segar (1598). Held by the National Gallery of Ireland. Portrait of Elizabeth "Bess" Throckmorton, lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth I of England and wife of Sir Walter Raleigh by William Segar (1595). Held by the Weiss Gallery. Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh (Raleigh) and his son Walter Ralegh by an unknown artist (1602). Held by the National Portrait Gallery. Photograph of fortifications of the Tower of London (from left to right: inner curtain wall, Wakefield Tower, Bloody Tower, and wall of the innermost ward) with the south bank of the Thames (City Hall, The Shard). View from the stairs to the entrance of the White Tower. Taken in 2018 by Tristan Surtel. Photograph of the “Bloody Tower” interior, Tower of London. Taken in 2005 by Kjetil Bjørnsrud. Frontispiece to Sir Walter Ralegh’s History of the World (1614). Reproduced at https://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/... The execution of Sir Walter Raleigh by an unknown illustrator (c. 1860). From The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and Government from the Earliest Period to Our Own Times by Charles Knight.