Wed 24 March 2021 17:00-18:00
Red Lodge was the first reformatory school founded exclusively for young women. It was opened in Bristol in 1854 under the superintendence of Mary Carpenter, a leading female advocate of deprived and delinquent children in mid-nineteenth-century England.
In this talk, historians Laura Harrison and Rose Wallis will use the foundation and operation of Red Lodge to explore wider histories of women as activists and offenders, considering the development of youth justice in the nineteenth century, and addressing how these historical perspectives can help us critically reflect on young women's experience of the criminal justice system today.
Contact: UWE Women's Forum E-mail: womensforum@uwe.ac.uk
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