Welsh Legal History Society The Carmarthen Gaoler's journal 1845 -1850 : part 1

Type

Book

Authors

Ireland, Richard W.

Ireland, Robert I.

The Welsh Legal History Society

ISBN 10

095416377X

ISBN 13

9780954163778

LCCN

KD 9430 .W45

Tags

Carmarthen Gaol, History, Sources, Punishment, Wales, Carmarthen, 19th century, Prisons

Series Name

Welsh Legal History Society

Abstract

"Carmarthen's Gaoler's journal, transcribed and annotated in this and the following volume, is a worthy tribute to Victorian bureaucracy. A large, calf-bound book, its contents are to a great degree routine and entirely predictable. this is as it should be. A Victorian prison is supposed to be a place in which the predictable both happens and is recorded as having happened: weeks should pass and pages should turn with the monotonous regularity of the revolving treadwheel which features throughout the manuscript..." - Introduction

Description

Content:
The Carmarthen Gaoler's Journal and Welsh Legal History / Richard W. Ireland -- The present Edition / Robert I. Ireland -- TEXT, 22 September 1845 - 18 June 1847 -- TEXT, 19 June 1847 - 1 October 1850 -- Commentary / Richard W. Ireland -- Textual and interpretative notes / Robert I. Ireland -- Appendicies, I: The Gaoler's Journal and the Felon's register -- II: Carmarthenshire JPs, 1837 -- III: Carmarthen Gaol in 1850.

Biblio Notes

Item donated by Graham Price.

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