MAC Lecture 4: Borstal - from building forts to building up young men

An old photograph of the front of Borstal Institution
  • Date: 7th May 2025
  • Location: Medway Archives Centre (MAC), 32 Bryant Road
    Strood
    ME2 3EP
  • Time: 14:00 - 15:30
  • Cost: £4 for a single lecture or £20 for a season ticket to all 6 lectures

There has been a prison at Borstal for over 150 years.

This session is fully booked

Join Ralph Allison as he looks at the history of a prison that has had many different roles, from housing labourers who built defensive fortifications, to starting a self-titled system of youth justice which spread across the country and around the world.

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