Part of the plan for the public engagement for this project was to enable the audience to follow the process and explore some of the research themselves. Several blogs have been published, as well as directions for further reading.

Blogs

• Blog 1: The Asylum Trilogy: theatrical performances exploring the history of mental illness and its institutions, April 2017
• Blog 2: Using Innovative Theatrical Strategies to Explore Solitary Confinement, May 2017

Background reading: Full text online

• Lawrence Goldman ‘Crofton, Sir Walter Frederick (1815–1897)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Mrs Maybrick’s Own Story: My Fifteen Lost Years (1904)
• Susan Willis Fletcher Twelve Months in an English Prison (1884)

Background reading: Books

• John T. Burt Results of the System of Separate Confinement: As Administered at the Pentonville Prison (1852)
• Carey, Mountjoy. The Story of a Prison (2000)