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Dr Causer presented original material from Bentham’s archive including letters, drawings of Bentham’s proposed panopticon prison, and the first page of the earliest Australian convict narrative,ÌýMemorandoms by James Martin, soon to be published in open-access by ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Press.

Treasures of the Written Word was part ofÌý¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Festival of CultureÌýevents and represented a rare opportunity to view highlights from ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Special Collections, Archives and Records, one of the UK’s foremost university collections.

Dr Causer said:

‘¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Special Collections has some wonderful holdings, not least of which are the Bentham Papers, and this event was a great opportunity to discuss some of the material with members of the public’.

Image 1: Bentham Papers, box 169, folio 179 (the first page of theÌýMemorandoms)

Image 2:ÌýBentham Papers, box 9, folio 16 (A letter dated 19 February 1792 from the renowned penal reformer, Sir William Eden to Bentham, expressing his approval for the principles behind Bentham’s panopticon prison scheme. This was published in volume 4 of theÌýCorrespondence)

Image 3:ÌýBentham Papers, box 107, folio 109 (recipes apparently collated for the panopticon prison’s kitchen, to provide inmates with cheap, nourishing food. The recipes wereÌýpublished asÌýJeremy Bentham’s Prison CookingÌýin 2015, and copies of the book will be available to buy for £10)

All the images are ‘Courtesy ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Special Collections’.

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