Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime And the Lunatic Asylum
“When, in November 2008, the Berkshire Record Office made the archive available for research, it was the first time that the general public could access the historic collections of what was England’s first Criminal Lunatic Asylum. As the person responsible for promoting use of the archive, it fell to me to piece together some stories of the more well-known patients, with the idea that this would raise awareness of the fact that the archive existed, and give researchers an idea of what they could... discover about the people who spent time in the Hospital.
This was and is not always a straightforward task. As you might expect, a lot of restrictions for access remain on the archive. Particularly, patients’ medical records are closed for a considerable time. This meant that any publicity had to focus on the Victorian period, and so I began to put together brief biographies of those nineteenth century patients who are already part of public consciousness.
Their stories are here: Edward Oxford, Richard Dadd, William Chester Minor and Christiana Edmunds.MoreLess
This was and is not always a straightforward task. As you might expect, a lot of restrictions for access remain on the archive. Particularly, patients’ medical records are closed for a considerable time. This meant that any publicity had to focus on the Victorian period, and so I began to put together brief biographies of those nineteenth century patients who are already part of public consciousness.
Their stories are here: Edward Oxford, Richard Dadd, William Chester Minor and Christiana Edmunds.MoreLess
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