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Inside Victorian Broadmoor

Stories from England's first Criminal Lunatic Asylum

Please note: a revised edition of 'Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum' will be published in 2013.  It can be pre-ordered at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Broadmoor-Revealed-Mark-Stevens/dp/1781593205 or direct from http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/.

The Berkshire Record Office looks after the historic archives of Broadmoor Hospital.  Thanks to generous grants from The Wellcome Trust these archives are now available for research, subject to access restrictions.  The archives tell the history of this unique institution.

There are many individual patient histories within the archive, and the pages below tell some of these.

Escape from Broadmoor: Part One

Escape from Broadmoor: Part Two

Broadmoor Babies

Edward Oxford

Richard Dadd

Christiana Edmunds

William Chester Minor

Henry Dodwell

 

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Broadmoor Revealed: the TalkListen to Mark Stevens speak about the Victorian Asylum at The National Archives

 
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