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Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on October 23, 2014
My initial research on peculiar history of Zanzibar’s so-called Prison Island as part of the Carceral Archipelago project began last year delving into the records in the National Archives and the British Library. Relying on Foreign Office correspondence, I was able to piece together some of the original documents of the construction of prison buildings […]
Posted in Africa, Carceral Archipelago, Convict labour, Convicts, Global History, Heritage, Penal Colonies, Uncategorized, University of Leicester |
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on October 6, 2014
During a recent research trip to the State Library of Western Australia I had the opportunity to examine the journal compiled by William Smith, Surgeon Superintendent, on board the Merchantman’s second voyage to the Swan River Colony. [1] Leaving Portland on July 1st 1864, 257 convicted men were transported directly to Fremantle in a voyage […]
Posted in Australia, Carceral Archipelago, Convicts, University of Leicester |
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on September 29, 2014
At the end of August, I visited Tsukigata, a small town in Hokkaido where the Kabato Central Prison was located from 1881 to 1919. The town was established in the year when the prison opened, and named after its first director, Kiyoshi Tsukigata. This town has unique sites that show the history of Hokkaido as […]
Posted in Carceral Archipelago, Convict labour, Convicts, Heritage, Japan, Uncategorized, University of Leicester |
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on September 17, 2014
During the first week of September, members of our European Research Council funded project, Carceral Archipelago, attended the Fourth European Congress on World and Global History, held in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure. While at the Congress, a number of the project’s researchers had the exhilarating opportunity of presenting aspects of their research on a shared […]
Posted in Australia, Carceral Archipelago, Convict labour, Convicts, Global History, Penal Colonies, Russia, Sakhalin Island |
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on September 15, 2014
“Reconsidering Southern African Studies from the Indian Ocean.” This challenge underpinned two wonderful days of discussion at the University of the Western Cape last week. As a conference, we wanted to explore what the burgeoning Indian Ocean historiography and literature means for southern African studies; including how land and sea might come together, in our […]
Posted in Africa, Australia, Bermuda, Carceral Archipelago, Conference, Convict labour, Convicts, Global History, Penal Colonies, Prisons, Robben Island, Slavery | Tagged Australia, Cape Colony, Carceral Archipelago, Conference, Convicts, Global history, Migration, Penal colonies, Robben Island, University of Leicester |
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on July 21, 2014
By Sarah Longair, Carceral Archipelago Project Researcher. Having been aware of the work of The Clink Charity, an innovative and exciting initiative which establishes restaurants in prisons, I was thrilled to hear that the latest one to benefit was HMP Brixton, not far from where I live. The Clink has been established with the aim […]
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Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on June 26, 2014
I have long been interested in Bermuda. Like the island that I studied for my PhD thesis, Mauritius, it has no indigenous population. It was settled during the age of European expansion, and developed using indentured servants from Europe and African slaves. In Mauritius the call for a new form of unfree labour in the […]
Posted in Bermuda, Carceral Archipelago, Convict labour, Convicts, Global History, Heritage, Migration, Penal Colonies | Tagged Carceral Archipelago, Convicts, Migration, Penal colonies, prisoners, University of Leicester |
Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on June 18, 2014
During my research trip to Seville in January 2014, and then again in March, I had the opportunity to visit the exhibition Pacífico: España y la aventura de la Mar del Sur (Pacific : Spain and the adventure of the South Sea). It was hosted in the magnificent building situated between the Cathedral and the Real […]
Posted in Carceral Archipelago, Exhibition, Global History, Latin America, Philippines, Spanish America, Spanish Empire, University of Leicester |
Posted by Katy Roscoe in Carceral Archipelago on June 11, 2014
A few weeks ago, it was wonderful to have our first Carceral Archipelago project panel. The three postgraduates working on the project – Carrie Crockett, Kellie Moss and Katy Roscoe – showcased their progress so far in three twenty minutes papers at the School of History’s postgraduate conference at the University of Leicester. We were […]
Posted in Carceral Archipelago | Tagged Carceral Archipelago, Cockatoo Island, Conference, Penal colonies, Postgraduate, Rottnest Island, Sakhalin, University of Leicester, Western Australia |
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on June 3, 2014
We are excited to open the Call For Papers (CFP) for the Carceral Archipelago’s upcoming international conference, The Carceral Archipelago: Transnational Circulations in Global Perspective, 1415-1960, to be held in September 2015. Scholars of penal settlements and colonies from all over the world are warmly invited to submit proposals for papers and panels. […]
Posted in Carceral Archipelago, Conference |
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