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STEPHEN HADDELSEY is the author of multiple works of historical non-fiction, including Poor Bickerton: A Journey to the Dark Heart of Georgian England and Icy Graves: Exploration and Death in the Antarctic. He was awarded a PhD by the University of East Anglia and has been elected to fellowship of both the Royal Geographical and Royal Historical societies. He is an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of East Anglia and lives with his wife, son and terriers in rural Nottinghamshire.
‘I admired London’s Bastille a great deal: a feat of patient and forensic scholarship, it is also vividly written and driven by a propulsive historical narrative, full of fascinating biographical anecdotes as well as intriguing details about London in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. At a time when Britain’s prison system is once again in crisis, London’s Bastille is also all too relevant.’ -- Professor Matthew Beaumont, author of ""Night Walking: A Nocturnal History of London"" ‘In this remarkable book, Stephen Haddelsey… paints a wonderfully compelling portrait of the great, centuries-long struggle in British public life between reformers and reactionaries, between the desire for social progress and a concomitant drive to protect the present.’ -- Lord Ken Macdonald Kt., KC, President of The Howard League for Penal Reform ‘A deep dive into the history of London’s most notorious gaol to discover whether the punishment really did fit the crime in late Georgian England, London’s Bastille is both fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable.’ -- Fiona Rule, author of The Worst Street in London
