Welsh Legal History Society The Carmarthen Gaoler's journal 1845 -1850 : part 2
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Book
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Special Collections
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Publication Year
2009
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Volume
9
Pages
434 pages
Subject
Wales
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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
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Content:
TEXT, 19 June 1847-1 October 1850
NOTES
Commentary - Richard W. Ireland
Textual and interpretative notes - Robert I. Ireland
TEXT, 19 June 1847-1 October 1850
NOTES
Commentary - Richard W. Ireland
Textual and interpretative notes - Robert I. Ireland
Biblio Notes
Item donated by Graham Price.
Part 2 of 2.
Part 2 of 2.
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