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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Lunatic
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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…