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postcard #30.vinegar

Reading Charles Dickens’ Uncommercial Traveller, July 2016 My summer reading this year included Charles Dickens’ The Uncommercial Traveller (published in…

Charles Dickens, Penal tourism, prison

postcard #15. shopping

CAPIC Showroom, Tokyo, July 2015 Prisons in Japan have their own stores attached where it is possible to buy products…

capic, Japan, Labour, prison

Postcard #35. Riots

High Pavement Police Station, Nottingham, September 2016   Yesterday I took a free tour of Nottingham’s Old County Police Station as…

2011 riots, GalleriesofJustice, Miners Strike, Nottingham, Penal tourism, Police Station

postcard #34. Pop-Up

Koestler Trust Pop-Up Art Sale Wormwood Scrubs, London, UK July 2016 Last Saturday, I visited the Koestler Trust Pop-Up art…

exhibition, gift shop, koestler, offender art, prison, wormwood scrubs

postcard #5. Toys

The Prison-Toy-Industry April 2014 Roland Barthes offered the following critique of the toy industry back in the late 1950s: ‘Invented…

dungeon, lego, playmobil, prison, transportation

postcard #22. Reformed

RE:FORM Exhibition, Koestler Trust Offender Arts Awards Southbank Centre, London, November 2015 This was the 8th Annual awards exhibition put…

koestler, offender art, prison

postcard #31. Debt

York Castle Museum, York, UK June 2016 Having now sought out prison museums, exhibitions, attractions and repurposed prison architecture in…

gift shop, Museum, prison, York, York Castle Museum

postcard #8. POW

Wollaton Hall, Nottingham October 2014 Having visited Wollaton again today, I thought it was time I reposted this blogette on their…

camp, War, WollatonHall

postcard #29. Cakes of Soap

La Conciergerie, Paris, France June 2016 Compared to the UK, there are very few prison museums in France and it…

frenchrevolution, laconciergerie, marieantoinette, prison, revolutionaryterror

postcard #9. Fortress Europe (part 1)

Dungeons of the Seven Towers (Yedikule), Istanbul December 2014 Built in 1458 by adding 3 towers to 4 existing ones,…

dungeon, Istanbul, prison, unesco, yedikule

postcard #23. The Carceral Model

Chiayi Prison Museum, Taiwan December 2015 Chiayi is a small city about 1 ¾ hours by High Speed Rail from…

Chiayi, Museum, offender art, prison, Taiwan

postcard #13. CCTV

The Galleries of Justice, Nottingham March 2015 ‘But, in this scene of terror, the role of the people was an…

exhibition, Foucault, gift shop, Museum, prison, Torture

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