The Undesirables: Law That Locked Away A Generation Sarah Wise Oneworld Publications Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

Through The Early Twentieth Century British Government Locked Away Over 50 000 Innocent People Their ‘Crimes’? Being Poor And Unyielding This Is Story A History Today Book Of Year \ Staggering… Wise\ S Bristles With Injustices Sunday Telegraph ***** By 1950 An Estimated Had Been Deemed ‘Defective’ Detained Indefinitely Under 1913 Mental Deficiency Act ‘Crimes’ Were Various: Women Children Born Out Wedlock Rebellious Teenagers Caught Shoplifting Those Epilepsy Hearing Impairments Chronic Illnesses Who Struggled In School Many Simply ‘Different’ Forcibly Removed From Families Confined To Shadow World Specialist Facilities Countryside They Hidden Forgotten – Sight Mind Painstaking Archival Research Award-Winning Historian Sarah Wise Shines Light On Shameful Chapter Piecing Together Lives Irrevocably Changed Devastating Legislation Undesirables Provides Compelling Study How Twentieth-Century Attitudes Class Gender Disability Resulted Nationwide Scandal Continue Shape Social Policy Day Heartrending Stories Has Unearthed Beggar Belief… Beautifully Researched Truly Catherine Bailey Author Black Diamonds Σελίδες: 352 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0702 Διαστάσεις: 15 3X15 3Cm