Download or read book Sessional Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Police History Society No 25 2010 written by Chris Forester and published by The Police History Society. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: POOR JENNIE - Chris Forester INSPECTOR THOMAS SIMMONS - Fred Feather SHE TOOK THEM ALL TO JAIL. BLACK MARIA - Tony Butler PICTURES FROM THE PAST THE RICHARDSONS - W. T. Walker KEEPING THE PEACE IN WWI - THE MANX POLICE - Jennifer Hawley Draskau SURREY'S WARTIME DREAM TEAM - Luke Franklin BRITAIN UNDER ATTACK - Joan Lock JAMES CRAMER 1915-2010 - Clifford Williams FORTUNATELY THE ONLY ONE? - Terry Stanford
Download or read book Craiginches written by Bryan Glennie and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former prison officer Bryan Glennie spent much of his career within the imposing Victorian walls of Craiginches Prison. Having lived and breathed the life of the prison up to his retirement, his account of the prison and prison life is both fascinating and well informed. In Craiginches - Life in Aberdeen's Prison, Bryan tells the stories behind history of this forbidding place: including the prison's only hanging, rooftop riots, botched escapes, drug smuggling and how prisoners tried to brew their own beer in a dung heap. He also recalls being deployed to the special teams at Peterhead where in one particular riot he was hit by a flying toilet. And he was in Peterhead again when the SAS stormed D Wing to free a prison officer who was being held hostage. Life in Craiginches had its glamorous side too. From Princess Anne to Robbie Shepherd, Billy McNeill, Ally MacLeod, Charlie Nicholas, Toyah Willcox, Dominic Kirwan, Evelyn Glennie and Andy Cameron, many have have a direct connection with the prison thanks to Bryan. Not to mention his very special relationship with Sir Alex Ferguson which has endured through the decades. And as well as the long term prisoners who did their time and often reoffended soon after release, Bryan presents the other side of modern prison work and the efforts made to rehabilitate those who wanted to be helped, including work on a number of big projects when prisoners were taken outside to help install walkways at the nature reserve at Burn O'Vat, clean up Balmedie Beach, help the Donmouth get Conservation status and even adopt a ward at Woodend Hospital. This is a unique insight into prison life in Craiginches, showing both the difficulties and dangers that were a part of everyday life and the rewarding side of the job when inmates gave something positive back to society.
Download or read book Kelly s Directory of the Electrical Industry and Wireless and Allied Trades Throughout England Scotland and Wales and the Principal Towns in Ireland the Channel Islands and Isle of Man written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Barlinnie Special Unit written by Dr Kirstin Anderson and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago, a small unit in HM Prison Barlinnie, Glasgow, became a radical experiment whose approach polarised opinion. It encouraged shared decision-making between prisoners and staff, allowed greater access to families and enabled prisoners to explore creative activities. Through the support of visiting artists, and the voices of the prisoners themselves, notably the sculptor Jimmy Boyle (author of A Sense of Freedom), its impact challenged prevailing, disciplinarian prison culture. Arts of various kinds, plus respectful and challenging dialogue, released dormant abilities and strengths in hitherto recalcitrant, formerly violent prisoners. Always controversial, the legacy of the Barlinnie Special Unit challenges overly punitive ideas around crime to this day. The first edited collection on the Barlinnie Special Unit’s almost 22-year history with contributions by those who were there at the time, or helped preserve its legacy. They include artist filmmaker Bill Beech, Scotland’s first art therapist Joyce Laing, leading Scottish impresario Richard Demarco, Sara Trevelyan, ex-wife of Jimmy Boyle (who also contributes), Rupert Wolfe Murray, son of Boyle’s publisher, Professor Mike Nellis of Strathclyde University, Claire Coia, a curator at Glasgow’s Open Museum, Andrew Coyle, founding Director of the International Centre for Prison Studies and journalist, and former Scottish MP Brian Wilson. Based on first-hand accounts, the book is a definitive retrospective and the first detailed history/analysis of the unit. A supreme record of an ‘iconic’ social experiment which includes diverse and largely unpublished materials. Review ‘Looking again at the BSU is a reminder that we have to reform the prison system. It means treating people in a humane way, even those who have committed serious crime, and by inventing creative projects which restore a person’s self-worth as a better route to redemption than mere punishment’ — Baroness Helena Kennedy KC (from the Foreword).
Download or read book Aberdeen written by Ian R Mitchell and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian R Mitchell recognises his hometown is an often underloved place, but in Aberdeen: Beyond the Granite he sets out an overwhelming case as to why this sentiment is thoroughly undeserved. An Aberdonian born and bred, Mitchell has lived in Glasgow for almost four decades. Returning to his roots, he delves into Aberdeen's rich and often unseen history and culture from an exile's perspective, revealing a proudly unique city, home to the world's oldest surviving company, the UK's oldest newspaper, and perhaps Britain's oldest Italian restaurant!
Download or read book The Railways of Fife written by William Scott Bruce and published by Mercat Press Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aberdeen 1800 2000 written by W. Hamish Fraser and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2000 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Mark the New Millennium Aberdeen City Council has commissioned a new history of Aberdeen in two volumes: Aberdeen, 1800 to 2000 and Aberdeen before 1800.
Download or read book Secret Aberdeen written by Lorna Corall Dey and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest in our popular 'Secret' series, Secret Aberdeen sheds new light on the secrets and historic events that have occurred in, and shaped, this oil-rich city on the northern shores of Scotland.
Download or read book Annual Report written by Aberdeen (Scotland). Royal Infirmary and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Launched Into Eternity written by David Leslie and published by Black & White Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the crowd gathered to see the hangman launching teenager Robert Smith into eternity on a wet Tuesday in 1868, it was the last time this public spectacle would be witnessed in Scotland. Smith's crime was heinous, his public punishment brutal. And, finally, it was the end of a tragic public theatre which had drawn eager, baying crowds for more than a thousand years. Launched Into Eternity is a fascinating account of crime and public punishment in Scotland. From bloody Viking penalties to the execution of William Wallace, and from witch hunts and public drownings to the horrific execution in 1820 of three Scots Radicals whose crime was to campaign for a fairer deal for the downtrodden, this is an astonishing and macabre story. But it is perhaps less surprising when you consider that by 1800, judges had the authority to hand out the death penalty for more than 200 separate offences. Times have undoubtedly changed for the better, but the shadows of our history offer a fascinating insight into the brutality of life and the public punishments of the past.
Download or read book Peterhead written by Robert Jeffrey and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Jeffrey, author of the bestselling "Barlinnie Story" and other true crime books, now tells the remarkable story of the infamous Peterhead Prison in Scotland's far north-east. Built in the 1880s as part of an ambitious humanitarian plan to use convict labour to construct a 'harbour of refuge' on the town's wild, storm-battered coast, it became what some call Scotland's gulag. A cold and brutal place, it has held down the years some of Scotland's most violent criminals and most infamous prisoners, convicted of the most heinous of crimes. In the early days, convicts were controlled by men as hard as their charges. The wardens carried swords and were quick to use them if necessary. And when convict labour was used to build the harbour, they worked with rifles trained on them at all times. Peterhead's wardens were clearly not to be crossed. Throughout the history of the prison, riots and breakouts have made headlines, with the SAS involved in restoring order at one point.Peterhead also had the reputation of being so secure that escape was impossible, with the notable exception of Johnny Ramensky, the safeblower turned war hero who went back to his criminal ways and spent more than forty years of his life in prison, many of them in Peterhead. He became the first inmate to escape and repeated the exercise four more times, often for his own satisfaction and amusement, each time being recaptured after a short taste of freedom. "Peterhead - Scotland's Toughest Prison" tells the remarkable inside story of a truly grim institution with a fearsome reputation.
Download or read book Glasgow s Godfather written by Robert Jeffrey and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Norval was a man marked by destiny to be a career criminal in one of Britain's hardest cities. As a boy he grew up in a world of illegal betting, violent canal bank pitch-and-toss schools, sleazy dance halls, brothels and bars where the denizens of the slums in the north side of Glasgow slaked gargantuan thirsts and plotted murder and mayhem. Before he had reached his teens, close relatives had died as blood was spilled in the streets. As a youngster he ran 'messages' for the toughest gangsters in the city and stood guard over the pots of cash in illegal gambling schools. It was a remarkable apprenticeship, dangerous and sometimes deadly. It honed a latent toughness and a talent for lawbreaking that saw him emerge in the Seventies as the first of a succession of Glasgow godfathers. Dressed in pinstriped style, he controlled his foot soldiers with fearsome fists and planned robberies with the attention to detail of a military general. He organised various Glasgow fighting factions into a single gang, which pulled off a spectacular series of robberies. But, unlike his successors, he abhorred drugs and drug-dealing.And, in a remarkable twist, he joined the anti-drugs war in later life. His story - told by the best-selling crime historian Robert Jeffrey - provides a fascinating insight into the making of a criminal mastermind, from boy to man.
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Download or read book Welcome to Aberdeen the Silver City by the Sea written by Nicky Mair and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is Blair Kensington? An American socialite arrives in Aberdeen, Scotland, and rocks the oil industry, moving the circles of power, introducing Aberdonians to royalty, politicians, and titans of the industry. The grey granite stone, on which the city is built, changes from drab and dreary and becomes the Silver City by the Sea. The madam can move mountains.
