Chosen by staff and the communities they work with, 30 Objects Representing Justice invites you to explore what justice looks like through a powerful selection of artefacts from the National Justice…

‘Stretched to the Limit’ is Steel Door Studios' first solo show of a body of work. This series of evocative pieces shines a floodlight on a prison system in crisis. Spiralling overcrowding,…

Join us over May half-term for a range of family-friendly and exciting creative workshops!

Uncover the stories of women who committed crimes in Georgian Nottingham and were imprisoned within Nottingham County Gaol.

Join writer and poet Leanne Moden for a fun and friendly writing workshop, using images and objects to write about work. Does the work we do define us as people? How can we tell engaging and creative…

Exploring the idea of treasured tools, taking the mundane everyday items we couldn’t do without and how we might embellish them with a charm or personalised detail to celebrate their worth or how a…

Victorian Britain produced many notorious criminals, but few captured the public imagination or troubled the police quite like Charlie Peace.

Inspired by Victorian and Edwardian prison work on household linen, this embroidery workshop invites you to stitch nature inspired motifs onto a cotton handkerchief; just as prisoners would have done.

Trial using hand-held looms with warping threads and string, and learning basic weaving techniques.

Taking basket weaving as a metaphor, this workshop will look at contemporary forms and approaches to creative pieces around the themes of purpose and hope, using a variety of colours, textures, and…

Find out how transportation to America differs from the later penal system established to Australia in Crime Club: Transportation to America.

Head back to the 90s with our murder mystery, where you are a guest at a new magazine launch party.

It’s December of 1953, and you’ve been invited to a Christmas murder mystery dinner at the Shire Hall, which the Broadmarsh Players AmDram Society* will perform.