Böcker av Michelle Higgs

Practical guide to the history of lunatic asylums and the lives of their patients.

Michelle Higgs combines a rich narrative of the sights, sounds and smells of Victorian England that will fascinate social history lovers with original sources helpful for students of the period. This title will also appeal to the audience captivated by recent popular costume dramas such as Ripper Street and Downton Abbey.

Throughout the Victorian period, life-threatening diseases were no respecter of class, affecting rich and poor alike. The middle classes might also pay for their treatment but, in addition, they could attend one of an increasing number of specialist hospitals.

Life in a workhouse during the Victorian and Edwardian eras has been popularly characterised as a brutal existence. This book establishes a true picture of what life was like in a workhouse, of why inmates entered them and of what they had to endure in their day-to-day routine.

Covering every aspect of prison life in Victorian England