A couple of years ago I visited Reading Prison for an exhibition prior to it being pulled down and the land sold off for development. Reading Gaol, as it was then, was opened in 1844 and continued to house inmates until it was decommissioned in 2013. Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde was incarcerated there from 1895 to 1897 for ‘committing acts of gross indecency … Continue reading Pictures of History: Reading Prison, Where Oscar Wilde was Detained