The shocking story of how the British government locked up thousands of innocent people – then forgot about them.
Sarah Wise Libri
Sarah Wise è specializzata negli aspetti affascinanti e spesso oscuri della storia del XIX secolo, in particolare a Londra. Il suo lavoro approfondisce storie meno conosciute, esplorando questioni sociali come la salute mentale, la povertà e il crimine. Wise utilizza ricerche storiche dettagliate per dare vita al passato, presentando personaggi complessi ed esaminando dilemmi etici che risuonano nella società contemporanea. Il suo stile è analitico ma accessibile, attirando i lettori in una vivida rappresentazione dell'Inghilterra vittoriana.
The Blackest Streets
- 352pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
In 1887 Government inspectors were sent to investigate the Old Nichol, a notorious slum on the boundary of Bethnal Green parish, where almost 6,000 inhabitants were crammed into thirty or so streets of rotting dwellings and where the mortality rate ran at nearly twice that of the rest of Bethnal Green.
The Italian Boy
- 352pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
Towards the end of 1831, the authorities unearthed a series of crimes at Number 3, Nova Scotia Gardens in East London that appeared to echo the notorious Burke and Hare killings in Edinburgh three years earlier.
Inconvenient People
- 496pagine
- 18 ore di lettura
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE Gaslight tales of rooftop escapes, men and women snatched in broad daylight, patients shut in coffins, a fanatical cult known as the Abode of Love... The nineteenth century saw repeated panics about sane individuals being locked away in lunatic asylums.