Ghosts of Britain’s shameful 18th & 19th century prison hulks return as migrants board Bibby Stockholm, an engineless ‘accommodation barge’ currently docked in Dorset which is being used to jail asylum seekers.

This piece was inspired by video essayist Tom Nicholas’s coverage, 'Britain's New Prison Ships', as well as a reading of ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens, the opening action of which involves a convict hulk like the one pictured here. 2023.