May 20, 2016 May 20, 2016Two patients, two photographs, two conditionsPoor mental health can strike at any time. In Victorian Britain it could be caused by a skin disease or as now old age.
May 20, 2016 May 20, 2016Photographs of asylum patients: an analysisDuring the 1890s the asylum began to take photographs of the patients and place them in the case notes. Most have survived and I have now an archive of over 700 of these photographs which have been digitally restored.