The history of “lunatic asylums” and their more modern replacements, psychiatric hospitals, is long, dark, and bloody. The institutions began as essentially…
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10 Movies Filmed at Real-Life Asylums & Mental Hospitals
by Johan Tobiasby Johan TobiasWhile many movies have been set within asylums, most have not gone so far as to use real-life ones during the shooting…
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The 1845 County Asylums Act made it mandatory for every county in England and Wales to build at least one asylum large…
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What kind of people ended up in a lunatic asylum? Melancholy teenagers? Violent criminals? Unmarried mothers? Most of the hundreds of thousands…
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The Victorian era saw hundreds of vast buildings spring up across the UK, Europe, and North America as governments sought to address…