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325 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780861544554
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Publication date: 04 April 2024
Description
Through 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 ‘c...
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325 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780861544554
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Publication date: 04 April 2024
Description
Through 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 ‘c...