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Eastville Workhouse buildings at twilight in the late 1960s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act<\/strong> aimed to prevent the mentally afflicted from being incarcerated in workhouses for long periods. However, studies across the country have demonstrated that large numbers of people with mental health issues<\/strong> were being held in these institutions, sometimes in appalling conditions, throughout the Victorian period and even into the twentieth century. Data for Eastville workhouse<\/strong> (constructed in 1847) in east Bristol supports this trend, despite the fact that after 1845 asylums<\/strong> were being constructed en masse and were available in Bristol and Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n

This talk will explain why this situation arose, and using case studies of inmates in Eastville Workhouse investigates how the mentally ill were systemically neglected, often ill-treated, and sometimes even murdered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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