Mental – A History Of The Mad House

Mental: A History of the Madhouse

Blakeway Productions.

Filming , September 2009

Documentary, which tells the fascinating and poignant story of the closure of Britain’s mental asylums. In the post-war period, 150,000 people were hidden away in 120 of these vast Victorian institutions all across the country.

A History of the Madhouse

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