London's Bastille

'London's Bastille is both fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable.' - Fiona Rule, author of The Worst Street in London In 1794, Britain's newest and much-heralded prison opened its gates in Clerkenwell, north London. Built on the principles laid down by John Howard, the most vocal and committed prison reformer of the eighteenth century, the new Coldbath Fields House of Correction was intended to be ...