Travel
back in time to the early nineteenth century to meet some of the mentally ill
patients who passed through Yorkshire’s West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum in
Wakefield during the first 50 years of its existence. Using transcriptions from
the celebrated collection of original asylum records held by the West Yorkshire
Archive Service (WYAS) the patients’ fascinating stories are told using the
actual words written about them at that time.
Proper People - Early Asylum Life - enables the reader to travel back to the early nineteenth century to meet some of the mentally ill patients who passed through Yorkshire’s West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield
Proper People
Travel
back in time to the early nineteenth century to meet some of the mentally ill
patients who passed through Yorkshire’s West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum in
Wakefield during the first 50 years of its existence. Using transcriptions from
the celebrated collection of original asylum records held by the West Yorkshire
Archive Service (WYAS) the patients’ fascinating stories are told using the
actual words written about them at that time.
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