Tattooing was a growing and accepted phenomenon in Victorian England – not restricted to convicts, sailors and soldiers.

To study these questions, we carried out the largest analysis of tattoos ever undertaken, examining 75,688 descriptions of tattoos, on 58,002 convicts in Britain and Australia from 1793 to 1925.

Whitton (who was eventually freed at the age of 20) was just one of 57,990 Victorian convicts whose tattoo descriptions we found as we data-mined the judicial archives.

The Victorian Tattooing Craze Started With Convicts and Spread to the ... “Tattoos provide an important window into the lives of those who typically left no written records of their own,” the ...

Whitton (who was eventually freed at the age of 20) was just one of 57,990 Victorian convicts whose tattoo descriptions we found as we data-mined the judicial archives. At the time, some commentators ...

VICTORIAN pictures always show stern-looking faces with people covering their bodies from head to toe in long clothes. But vintage images have revealed how some people living in 19th century Britai… ...

Tattooing was a growing and accepted phenomenon in Victorian England – not restricted to convicts, sailors and soldiers.

Tattooing was a growing and accepted phenomenon in Victorian England – not restricted to convicts, sailors and soldiers.

Tattooing was a growing and accepted phenomenon in Victorian England – not restricted to convicts, sailors and soldiers.