Culture And Memory

Crime and Punishment in Rochester from Tudor Times to the Present Day

The schools St Margaret’s and All Faiths Children’s Academy constitute an educational collaboration situated in the constituency of Rochester and Strood. We are looking at a range of initiatives which will mollify the deficits in our children’s education caused by the coronavirus epidemic as well as enhancing pupils from a range of socio-economic disadvantages. In 1531 a most infamous poisoning took place in Rochester. But was there more to it? Fisher had criticised Henry VIII’s divorce from Katherine. Could her replacement, Anne Boleyn have sought revenge on the bishop? To avoid a potentially embarrassing trial Henry ordered Roose to be boiled alive without a trial! We would also use the extensive research on transportation and reform schools from the Eastgate archive collection through the novel and film Great Expectations, much of it written and celebrated in Rochester Community police officers will hold sessions to bring the subject up to date.