Chalke Talk

The podcast from the Chalke Valley History Festival
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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN THE VICTORIAN COUNTRYSIDE

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In this talk for junior pupils at the Chalke Valley History Festival for Schools, Jamie Byrom tells of ‘Sarah’s Sad Story’. Using the local records in Devon from the Victorian era, he follows her from early childhood to her first job as a servant aged ten (although claiming to be thirteen) to her incarceration in prison a few years later.



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