Asylums

Nowadays, we have a decent understanding of mental health and many who need help can find it in psychiatric hospitals. That was…

If you suddenly woke up inside a mental hospital, do you think you could convince everyone that you’re not crazy and to…

The history of “lunatic asylums” and their more modern replacements, psychiatric hospitals, is long, dark, and bloody. The institutions began as essentially…

While many movies have been set within asylums, most have not gone so far as to use real-life ones during the shooting…

The 1845 County Asylums Act made it mandatory for every county in England and Wales to build at least one asylum large…

What kind of people ended up in a lunatic asylum? Melancholy teenagers? Violent criminals? Unmarried mothers? Most of the hundreds of thousands…

The Victorian era saw hundreds of vast buildings spring up across the UK, Europe, and North America as governments sought to address…