Category: ReBlogs
Why the world needs collectors
Clerics and Kings: Public History and the Redevelopment of All Saints Church, Kingston
Private Minds, Public Histories: Discovering Archives of Mental Illness and Learning Disability at Surrey History Centre.
The Science Museum – Early Bird Autism Session
Rethinking the Asylum: Dr Down and the History of Learning Disability
When an episode of BBC’s Panorama (2011) exposed shocking levels abuse at Winterbourne View, a care home for patients with learning disabilities, a number of commentators were quick to liken the home, and the cruelty that happened there, to a Victorian asylum. Read the full Blog from the Victorian Clinic Posted 11 August 2013
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Life in a Victorian Asylum 3: Patient Rights
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