Author: Justin AthollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Prison on the Moor
Author: Justin AthollFrench and American Prisoners of War at Dartmoor Prison, 1805-1816
Author: Neil DaviePublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030838919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This book explores the history of Dartmoor War Prison (1805-16). This is not the well-known Victorian convict prison, but a less familiar penal institution, conceived and built nearly half a century earlier in the midst of the long-running wars against France, and destined, not for criminals, but for French and later American prisoners of war. During a period of six and a half years, more than 20,000 captives passed through its gates. Drawing on contemporary official records from Britain, France and the USA, and a wealth of prisoners’ letters, diaries and memoirs (many of them studied here in detail for the first time), this book examines how Dartmoor War Prison was conceived and designed; how it was administered both from London and on the ground; how the fate of its prisoners intertwined with the military and diplomatic history of the period; and finally how those prisoners interacted with each other, with their captors, and with the wider community. The history of the prison on the moor is one marked by high hopes and noble intentions, but also of neglect, hardship, disease and death
Mutiny on the Moor
Author: Simon DellPublisher: Forest Books
ISBN: 9780954908935
Category : Prison administration
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Presents an account of the mutiny that took place inside Dartmoor prison on 24th January 1932.
The Moor
Author: William AtkinsPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 057129006X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
In this deeply personal journey across our nation's most forbidding and most mysterious terrain, William Atkins takes the reader from south to north, in search of the heart of this elusive landscape. His account is both travelogue and natural history, and an exploration of moorland's uniquely captivating position in our literature, history and psyche. Atkins may be a solitary wanderer across these vast expanses, but his journey is full of encounters, busy with the voices of the moors, past and present: murderers and monks, smugglers and priests, gamekeepers and ramblers, miners and poets, developers and environmentalists. As he travels, he shows us that the fierce landscapes we associate with Wuthering Heights and The Hound of the Baskervilles are far from being untouched wildernesses. Daunting and defiant, the moors echo with tales of a country and the people who live in it - a mighty, age-old landscape standing steadfast against the passage of time.
Prison Escapes
Author: Jack ChathamPublisher: Author House
ISBN: 1496980433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
A collection of fourteen true accounts of daring prison escapes. These include Philip Dixon, who walked seminaked from Portsmouth to Wales after escaping from a prison hulk and John Gasken and Fred Amey, who used a ladder to climb over Dartmoor's Wall whilst part of a supervised work party.
My Lady of the Moor
Author: John OxenhamThe Scrap Book
Author: Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Author: William D. PhillipsPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812244915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia provides a sweeping survey of the many forms of bound labor in Iberia from ancient times to the decline of slavery in the eighteenth century.
Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates, During the ... Session of the ... Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the Kingdom of Great Britain ...
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
A Hundred Years on Dartmoor
Author: William CrossingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dartmoor (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description