Penal sanctions
Found in 130 Collections and/or Records:
Public and Political: General: Correspondence H-K., 1910 - May 1934
Public and Political: General: Correspondence N-Z., 1880 - Jun 1934
Public and Political: General: Indian Affairs., 15 Jan 1937 - 19 Nov 1937
Public and Political: General: New Commonwealth Society for the promotion of International Law and Order: correspondence mainly with General Secretary N B Foot., Jan 1939 - Oct 1939
Subjects include: Society publications, including publishing the text of a broadcast by WSC, [16] October 1938; involving Emile Bure in the Society; the Society's International Summer School and Delegate Conference; a meeting of the British Parliamentary Group; a suggested letter to be sent by sympathetic MPs to newspapers in their constituency; Hungarian members; a Europa Union Congress.Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from WSC's secretaries including [Kathleen] Hill.
Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence A-C., Jun 1947 - Dec 1949
Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence D-I., Jun 1946 - Dec 1947
Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence M-Q. (includes copies of wartime documents)., Feb 1941 - Dec 1946
Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence O-P., Nov 1946 - Nov 1947
Records relating to the Spinning House, 1823 - 1894
The Spinning House was a house of correction to which women suspected of 'walking with undergraduates', i.e. prostitution, were committed under the Vice-Chancellor's jurisdiction, which jurisdiction was abolished in 1894 following the notorious 'Daisy Hopkins case'.
Speeches: speech notes., 22 Oct 1945 - 26 Apr 1948
Speeches: speech notes., 10 Jul 1948 - 30 Jul 1948
Speeches: speech notes and source material., 24 Jun 1933 - 17 Nov 1933
(Untitled), 27 Jul 1922
Letter from Sidney Oliver (Old Hall, Ramsden, [? Essex]) to WSC announcing that WSC will receive a copy of the report of Oliver's committee on the effect on prisoners of penal methods in recognition of his work for prison reform when he was Home Secretary.
(Untitled), 03 Apr 1924
Letter from Sir Ernley Blackwell (Home Office) to WSC on WSC's decision in 1911 to respite the sentences of the alleged murderers of Leon Beron.
(Untitled), 06 May 1909
Letter from John Galsworthy (Wingstone, Manaton, Devon) to WSC asking him to read his open letter to the Home Secretary [?on prison reform] in the Nation and to advocate the plea therein if he agrees with it.
(Untitled), 15 May 1909
Letter from John Galsworthy (Wingstone, Manaton, Devon) to WSC thanking him for agreeing to write to the Home Secretary and for his appreciation of Galsworthy's play "Strife".
(Untitled), 21 Sep 1910-28 Sep 1910
Note from WSC (Home Office) to John Pedder enclosing a memorandum [not present] from the Socialist Lord Provost of Dundee [Scotland] on the reduction in crime following the imposition of a new whisky duty, 21 Sep 1910 Typescript annotated with Pedder's comments on the memorandum, 23 Sep [1910, and with note that it was sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer [David Lloyd George], 28 Sep [1910]].
(Untitled), 17 Feb 1910
Letter from Sir Francis Hopwood [later Lord Southborough] (Colonial Office) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment as Home Secretary and urging him to reduce prison sentences whenever possible.
(Untitled), 15 Dec 1910
Copy of a letter from [Lord Northcliffe, formerly Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC in which he expresses concern at the inaccuracy in the press of discussions concerning the treatment of convicts and asks whether WSC would give permission for a writer, artist and photographer to visit prisons to research a series of articles for his London magazine.
(Untitled), 02 Jan 1942 - 28 Feb 1942
(Untitled), 02 Sep 1942
Letter from WSC to Cardinal Arthur Hinsley on lifting of the death sentence from six murderers in Belfast [Ulster, Northern Ireland].
(Untitled), 04 Sep 1942
Letter from WSC to John Andrews [Prime Minister of Northern Ireland] commending his decision to lift the death sentence.
(Untitled), 31 Aug 1942 - 04 Sep 1942
Letter from John Andrews [Prime Minister of Northern Ireland] to WSC informing him of the decision to lift the death sentence from six murderers; with reply.
(Untitled), 25 Aug [1913]
Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on hardship inflicted on fishermen by illegal trawling, and the use of assigning ships to help the police against the trawlers. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 28 Mar 1907
Letter from Herbert Gladstone [later Lord Gladstone] (Home Office) to WSC on the case of William Taylor, a prisoner serving a sentence for the attempted murder of Judge Parry. Signed typescript.