South of a regular English provincial town is a site that once played a crucial role on the home front of one of Europe's defining conflicts. Norman Cross near Peterborough, though, was a prison active during the Napoleonic Wars at the beginning of what is known by historians as the long 19th century. But it didn't just consist of buildings in which inmates were house, it functioned as a town in its own right, complete with houses, offices, butchers, bakers, a hospital, school, market and bankin
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