Let’s start at the beginning, with the arrival of new prisoners at prisons during the 1800s. In the video for this session, Rosalind Crone visits the reception cell at Lincoln Castle Gaol. What happened to prisoners on arrival? Why was there such an interest in recording information about them?

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