The Undesirables by Sarah Wise

The Undesirables

Sarah Wise

325 pages first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology
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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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