Denbighshire Archives and the Ruthin Gaol Museum will be featured on BBC 1's The One Show as part of a focus on Victorian criminals and the early use of photography as a means of identification.
A production team, to include well-know historian, Ruth Goodman, spent a whole day at the Gaol and Archives, and the section is scheduled to be broadcast on 11 June.
Presenter, Ruth, had her ‘mugshot’ taken and developed by a photographer who specialises in Victorian photographic techniques; a school pupil from Penycae found some information on his ancestor who had been imprisoned at Ruthin in 1871 for the theft of a velvet coat; and Ruth and Richard Ireland, a senior lecturer form Aberystwyth who specialises in the history of criminal law, discussed two rare, early ‘mugshot’ books which are part of the Denbighshire Constabulary’s records in the Archives.
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