Sarah Wise in Conversation: The Undesirables

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Join multi award winning historian Sarah Wise discussing her latest book: The Undesirables; The Law That Locked Away A GenerationThrough the early twentieth century, ‘liberal’ Britain locked away thousands of innocent people.By 1950, an estimated 50,000 people had been deemed ‘defective’ by the government and detained for life under the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. Their … Continue reading "Sarah Wise in Conversation: The Undesirables"