The shocking story of how the British government locked up thousands of innocent people – then forgot about them.
Sarah Wise Libros
Sarah Wise se especializa en los aspectos fascinantes y a menudo oscuros de la historia del siglo XIX, particularmente en Londres. Su obra profundiza en historias menos conocidas, explorando problemas sociales como la salud mental, la pobreza y el crimen. Wise utiliza una investigación histórica detallada para dar vida al pasado, presentando personajes complejos y examinando dilemas éticos que resuenan en la sociedad contemporánea. Su estilo es analítico pero accesible, atrayendo a los lectores a una vívida representación de la Inglaterra victoriana.
The Blackest Streets
- 352 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
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
- 352 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
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
- 496 páginas
- 18 horas de lectura
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.