Newgate Prison

No Sir Lancelot: A Good Deliverance, by Toby Clements, reviewed

29 June 2024 9:00 am

Imprisoned in Newgate, Sir Thomas Malory spins wondrous tales of his ‘gentle acts of valour’ to the jailor’s son. And who cares whether they are true or not?

Scrawled outpourings of love and defiance

13 April 2024 9:00 am

Examples of 18th-century graffiti range from romantic rhymes scratched on windowpanes to the haunting marks of political prisoners incised on dungeon walls

Why is there no God in the British Library's latest exhibition?   

11 January 2014 9:00 am

Georgians Revealed: Life, Style and the Making of Modern Britain at the British Library (until 11 March) would have you…