Scrimgeour Yorkshire imprint: 1 book

Proper People

Early Asylum Life in the Words of Those Who Were There

by David Scrimgeour
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

While many excellent books have been published about the nineteenth century county asylums in England, comparatively little has been written about the tens of thousands of real people, mostly “pauper lunatics”, who passed through their doors. Social historians starved of material providing a deep...
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