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Crime & Punishment

A digital storytelling heritage collection project, focusing on the heritage of incarceration, exploring public memories and understandings of penal regulation/social justice.

This project will encourage our young learners to visit historical sites, buildings that used to be prison sites, consult library collections, archives and on-line learning resources in order to acquire an awareness of the evolving nature of social justice and to produce a collection of digital stories exploring notions of social justice, punishment and crime.

Participants will accomplish a ‘back-to-history’ tour in the past by visiting different sites such as Newcastle’s Castle Keep (former prison), Durham Gaol, immerse themselves in Tyne and Wear’s archives of young peoples’ mug shots during Victorian times and consult special collections at Newcastle University's Robinson Library and Palace Green Library's special collections in Durham.

This project has been supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund and would not have been possible without their generous contribution.

This project has also been supported by match funding available via Community Foundation and Awards for All, grants. Project partners include Space 2 Youth Centre, Sangini, Newcastle University, Durham University and Bridge + Tunnel Productions.

Get in touch to find out more:

info@bridgeandtunnelproductions.com