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Explore the hidden history of education within the nineteenth-century English prison system. While prisons were often defined by hard labor and hard fare, they also served as unexpected sites for learning. This book examines the schemes used to teach prisoners to read and write, tracing these efforts back to the early 1800s. Discover how state-funded elementary education for inmates actually predated universal and compulsory education for children by fifty years. The text follows the evolution of penal policy from the 1860s, when arithmetic was added to reading and writing as core skills, through the late nineteenth century. This work provides a detailed look at how literacy and numeracy were integrated into the lives of incarcerated individuals during the Victorian era.

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Published by Oxford University Press, this book provides a historical account of nineteenth-century English prisons.

The text explores how prisoner education schemes began as early as the 1800s.

Learn how state-funded elementary education for prisoners existed fifty years before compulsory education for children.

The book details how arithmetic, reading, and writing became core skills in English prisons during the 1860s.

This historical study covers the development of national penal policy through the end of the century.

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Amazon UK
Release Date
12 May 2022
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05 November 2021

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