"Truth is stranger than fiction"
Subtitle: true account of the proceedings leading to, and a full & authentic report of, the searching inquiry, by Her Majesty's Commissioners, into the horrible system of discipline practised at the Borough Gaol of Birmingham
By: edited by Joseph Allday, Churchwarden, one of the deputation that presented to Lord Palmerston the memorial adopted at a public meeting of the inhabitants of Birmingham, and who appeared, during the thirteen days' inquiry, on behalf of the memorialists
Contributors: Great Britain. Commissioners appointed to enquire into the Condition and Treatment of the of the Prisoners confined in Birmingham Borough Gaol
Series: Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890; Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890
Publisher: John Tonks; J. Pitman
Published: 1853
Place of publication: Birmingham; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Prisons; Prison discipline; Birmingham (England). Borough Gaol; Birmingham (England)
Notes: Dated (page 5): May 12th, 1853.

Reproduction of the original from the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, Senate House Library, University of London.

Shelfmark number: [G.L.] B.853 [Allday].