If you are arrested for a crime today, you will very likely be taken to a police station and locked in a cell while officers decide if they have enough evidence to charge you. But have you ever wondered what happened to criminals and other disorderly folk – roughs, drunks and vagrants – before police stations were established? Rosalind Crone, lead for prisonhistory.org, tells us about a project to recover places of temporary confinement, including local lockups, in Britain and Ireland between the sixteenth and the early twentieth century...