The shocking story of how the British government locked up thousands of innocent people – then forgot about them.
Sarah Wise Livres
Sarah Wise est spécialisée dans les aspects fascinants et souvent sombres de l'histoire du XIXe siècle, en particulier à Londres. Son travail plonge dans des histoires moins connues, explorant des problèmes sociétaux tels que la santé mentale, la pauvreté et le crime. Wise utilise des recherches historiques détaillées pour donner vie au passé, présentant des personnages complexes et examinant des dilemmes éthiques qui résonnent dans la société contemporaine. Son style est analytique mais accessible, attirant les lecteurs dans une représentation vivante de l'Angleterre victorienne.
The Blackest Streets
- 352pages
- 13 heures de lecture
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
- 352pages
- 13 heures de lecture
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
- 496pages
- 18 heures de lecture
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.