Crime and Punishment Session Information

This session is taught as a one-hour online session.

If you would like to come to Palace Green Library for this session instead, please contact us for further details.

Online Session:

Before your session:

You will be sent a letter from our archives from the debtors of Durham. We would ask you to look at this letter with your class and have them consider answers to the accompanying questions in preparation for their session with us. 

During the session:

You will look at four varied sources from our archive reviewing the prisons from various points during the period of very active prison reform. We will encourage the pupils to consider the sources and their reliability and create a sense of what is changing in the prisons over this period of time. 

After your session:

You will be sent a map of the new Durham jail with some features to spot and further improvements that were made. 

Need to know:

• An online session for KS3 is one hour in length.  
• Session times are generally fixed to fit in with your timetable as best we can.  
• You will need to book a short test call with us to check that you can see and hear us on the whiteboard in your classroom. These are available at 3.30pm, 3.45pm and 4pm.  
• We will ask you to book separate sessions for each of your classes so that we can keep them as interactive as possible.   

• You will be sent an email with resources to print out for the pre-session work, the class session and then the post-session activity.  
• These sessions are free for KS3 students.  

Session costs