Warwickshire County Council
Crime and Punishment CD
Images of historical sources from Warwickshire County
Record Office to support the GCSE History syllabus
CR2212/48 Known Thieves Album
c.1900 Courtesy of Warwickshire
County Record Office
Would you like to give your students the chance to look at images of original documents
in the classroom?
Warwickshire County Record Office has everything from a nineteenth century Album of
Known Thieves to documents detailing the daily life of inmates in Warwickshire prisons.
Heritage Education has compiled a CD with images of ten of these documents, together
with teachers’ notes and transcripts, for use for study in the classroom.
The documents include:
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a newspaper article describing living conditions in Warwick gaol in the 1700s
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an extract from a burial register from the 1700s depicting a brutal murder
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details of the daily diet for prisoners in Warwick Prison Gaol in 1872
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a page from the nineteenth century Album of Known Thieves
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information from court records on the crimes committed by Victorian children and the
punishments given to them
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parish records documenting the removal of vagrants
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details of criminal activity found in applications for poor relief from Victorian Boards of
Health
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A photograph of daily activities in the Cape Road prison in Warwick from the 1900s.
The CD costs £50 (plus postage and packing) and will be available from May 2013.
To order, or for more information, please telephone Heritage Education
on 01926 412069 or email us at
[email protected]