Photos of Richmond Castle and the graffiti in the exhibition. Photo: All courtesy of English Heritage.
Voices of dissent
Kevin Booth, senior curator at English Heritage, tells the Friend about a project at Richmond Castle that celebrates the witness of imprisoned conscientious objectors
by Kevin Booth
28th September 2018
In the past few years English Heritage has been conserving and stabilising graffiti on the walls of the nineteenth century cell block at Richmond Castle in Yorkshire. It was written, drawn and scratched over many decades. Some, done during the first world war, are a precious resource in the story of conscientious objection in Britain.
