Nicknamed ‘Hell on Earth’ the prison became so synonymous with terror and misery that even the hangman’s noose became a welcome escape. Let’s travel back in time now to the Middle Ages and find out ...

If you’d been outside Bishop’s Gate, Derry, on St Patrick’s Day 300 years ago this coming Monday, you would have witnessed ...

A Norfolk MP revealed his family link to Norwich prison reformer Elizabeth Fry during a Parliamentary debate to mark International Women's Day.

Norwich's 19th century prison reformer Elizabeth Fry was hailed during a parliamentary debate to mark International Women's Day - as one of the county's MPs revealed he was related to her.

Public domain image. Müller was sentenced to death by hanging. He would be executed in public outside Newgate Prison, Old Bailey. According to a press report, the crowd 'filled all the streets in ...

Newgate Prison was once the most notorious prison in London. Commissioned in the 12th century by King Henry II, Newgate Prison remained in use all the way through to 1902. The prison itself was ...

If you were to find yourself in the condemned cell of Newgate Prison in the eighteenth century that cheerful advice above would be proclaimed, by the St Sepulchre’s church sexton, to every prisoner in ...

She learned about smallpox inoculation in Turkey, and using her influence at the English royal court, trials were conducted on men imprisoned in London's Newgate Prison. This led to the wider adoption ...

Sharing the same roof as the notorious Newgate Prison, the stone blockhouse of the Old Bailey squatted stolidly in the center of the City of London. The courthouse was a five-minute walk from the ...