prison hulks

Here we wrap up our long discussion of prison ships and prison hulks in the British Empire. 

Listen to Parts 1 and 2 if you haven't already! All three parts have now been unlocked for everyone on the main podcast feed. 

Sources:

Forbes, Thomas R. "Coroners' Inquisitions on the Deaths of Prisoners in the Hulks at Portsmouth, England, in 1817 - 1827." Journal of the History of Medicine, July 1978, pp. 356 - 365

Foxhall, Katherine. "From Convicts to Colonists: The Health of Prisoners and the Voyage to Australia, 1823 - 1853." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vo. 39, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 1 - 19

Hobsbawm, E.J. and George Rudé. Captain Swing. Phoenix Press, 2001.

James, Jeff. "'Raising Sand, Soil and Gravel' - Pardon Refusers On-Board Prison Hulks (1776 - 1815)." Family & Community History, vol. 20/1, April 2017

Townsend, Norma and David Kent. "The Men of the Eleanor, 1831: A Case Study of the Hulks and Voyage to New South Wales." The Great Circle, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 109 - 119

**no main episode this week, but we're unlocking a bonus for you**

The January 2022 bonus episode, a continuation of our Part 1 discussion prison hulks in the British empire, with an emphasis on their use in Australia. 

Hosty, Kieran and Bridget Berry. "Convict Hulks." Sydney Living Museums. https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/stories/convict-hulks

McKay, Anna. "A Day in the Life: Convicts on board Prison Hulks." https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/10/10/a-day-in-the-life-convicts-on-board-prison-hulks/

Stavely-Wadham, Rose. "'Colleges of Villainy' - Life Onboard the Prison Hulks." The British Newspaper Archive, 31 Mar 2021. https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2021/03/31/life-onboard-a-prison-hulk/

In Part 1 of a three part bonus series, we discuss the use of prison hulks with an emphasis on their role in the American Revolution.

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Sources:

Bowden, Mary W. "In Search of Freneau's Prison Ships." Early American Literature, vol. 14, no. 2, Fall 1979, pp. 174 - 192.

Cray, Robert E. "The Horror of These Hulks." Naval History, 2006

Freneau, Philip. "The British Prison Ship."

 Freneau, Philip. "To Lord Cornwallis."

Ranlet, Philip. "In the Hands of the British: the Treatment of Americans POWs During the War of Independence." The Historian, vol. 62, no. 4, 2000, pp. 731 - 758.