The shocking story of how the British government locked up thousands of innocent people – then forgot about them.
Sarah Wise Knihy
Sarah Wiseová sa špecializuje na fascinujúce a často temné aspekty histórie 19. storočia, najmä v Londýne. Jej tvorba sa ponára do menej známych príbehov a skúma spoločenské problémy, ako sú duševné zdravie, chudoba a zločin. Wiseová využíva podrobné historické bádanie na oživenie minulosti, predstavuje komplexné postavy a skúma etické dilemy, ktoré sa odrážajú aj v dnešnej spoločnosti. Jej štýl je analytický, ale zároveň prístupný, čo čitateľov vtiahne do živého obrazu viktoriánskeho Anglicka.
The Blackest Streets
- 352 stránok
- 13 hodin čítania
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 stránok
- 13 hodin čítania
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 stránok
- 18 hodin čítania
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.