West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum Through Time by Mark Davis

West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum Through Time

Mark Davis

96 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction informative slow-paced
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During the eighteenth century the plight of those considered insane was dismal. Many were locked up in madhouses or chained in the workhouse, their illnesses ignored. It was only with the advent of the Industrial Revolution that reform came into p...

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