Broadmoor Inmates
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Broadmoor Inmates
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Author : Nicola Sly
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2023-11-09
Broadmoor Inmates written by Nicola Sly and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-09 with True Crime categories.
Broadmoor Inmates: True Crime Tales of Life and Death in the Asylum brings together the histories of people who died in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, each having committed a crime that led to them being pronounced criminally insane, necessitating their confinement and containment for their own protection, as well as that of the public. Nowadays, staff have a wide range of therapeutic tools at their disposal but historically the only treatment offered to patients was work, leisure activities and abundant fresh air. All human life is here the addicts, the mentally deranged, the delusional, the tragic and the chronically and postnatally depressed men and women whose acts of madness led them to be reviled and feared, but who were often as much victims of their own internal demons as were those they harmed. As well as wife murderers James Potter and Peter Whittle, the characters within include Henry Dommett, James Senior and Mary Ann Parr, who each killed their own children and Christiana Edmunds, who poisoned several people in Brighton to divert suspicion from herself, after attempting to murder her love rival. Other vignettes include serial arsonist John Green, counterfeiter Emma Jackson and James Stevenson and Roderick Edward McClean, both of whom took exception to the accession of Her Majesty Queen Victoria to the throne, the latter attempting to assassinate her. Daniel McNaughten became so paranoid about the Tory spies that he believed followed him constantly that he killed a civil servant in 1843, mistakenly believing his victim to be prime minister Sir Robert Peel. Such was McNaughtens derangement that his crime spawned a new standard for the legal definition of insanity. Generously illustrated throughout, this book will prove of interest to those with a fascination for historical true crime and the way its perpetrators were dealt with by society.
Broadmoor
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Author : Scott Shaw-Smith MBE
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-08-20
Broadmoor written by Scott Shaw-Smith MBE and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-20 with categories.
Broadmoor is one of the UK's most recognisable mental hospitals but little is know about its notorious inmates, delve into the past and present and read about those names you've heard about and some ones you haven't and the history behind the names
Broadmoor A History Of Criminal Lunacy And Its Problems
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Author : Ralph Partridge
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1975
Broadmoor A History Of Criminal Lunacy And Its Problems written by Ralph Partridge and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Social Science categories.
Broadmoor My Journey Into Hell
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Author : Charlie Bronson
language : en
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Release Date : 2015-01-08
Broadmoor My Journey Into Hell written by Charlie Bronson and has been published by Kings Road Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-08 with Social Science categories.
THE CLOSEST PLACE ON EARTH THAT YOU WILL GET TO HELL - Charlie Bronson Broadmoor: My Journey Into Hell documents the story of long-term prisoner Charlie Bronson and his five-year stay at Britain's most notorious mental hospital, Broadmoor. His journey has, until now, never been told.In the winter of 1979, aged just twenty-seven, the inmate who would come to be known as 'Charlie Bronson' was considered uncontrollable by the prison system. Certified insane, he was transferred from Parkhurst Prison to the most infamous high-security psychiatric hospital in England, Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane. There he embarked on a one-man campaign to retain his sanity, and to fight against the brutality of a largely hidden regime that relied on enforced drug control.This outstandingly honest account takes the reader back to those dark days. It is a journey filled with sadness, and yet it is one that includes much laughter and pathos, as well as detailing the camaraderie among fellow patients, who included Ronnie Kray and Frankie Fraser. How Charlie Bronson survived Broadmoor, what he endured and the things he witnessed are, for the very first time, documented in this sad, often chilling, sometimes funny and often moving account of one man's journey into madness and his methods for surviving the UK's most feared and notorious psychiatric hospital. Capturing Bronson's unique voice, it is a roller-coaster ride of madness, pain, laughter and tears. It is also a testament to one man's triumph over adversity.
Inside Broadmoor
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Author : Kim Forester
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-04-24
Inside Broadmoor written by Kim Forester and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-24 with categories.
One Chief Attendant...Charles Bishop Coleman worked at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum for 38 years between 1873 and 1912, where he met, guarded and wrote about the inside secrets of over 700 inmates.Plus the criminally insane..."One night, when alone in his Broadmoor cell, William Taylor suffered another attack of maniacal insanity and gouged out his own eyes with his fingers, completely destroying his sight."Equal shocking tales of murder & mayhem...'Jack the Ripper' suspects James Kelly and Thomas Hayne Cutbush were both locked up in Broadmoor. Only one escaped, and in this book the secret of how he did it is disclosed. Together with exclusive and never before published photographs of one of the 'Ripper' suspects, plus other dangerous patients.You won't want to miss the words of Chief Attendant Coleman in this revealing new book.
Inside Broadmoor
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Author : Jonathan Levi
language : en
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Release Date : 2019-08-08
Inside Broadmoor written by Jonathan Levi and has been published by Kings Road Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-08 with True Crime categories.
The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller 'There is time and then there is Broadmoor time.' Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has contained the UK's most violent, dangerous and psychopathic. Since opening as an asylum for the criminally insane in 1863 it has housed the perpetrators of many of the most shocking crimes in history; including Jack the Ripper suspect James Kelly, serial killers Peter Sutcliffe (the Yorkshire Ripper), John Straffen and Kenneth Erskine, armed robber Charles Bronson, gangster Ronnie Kray, and cannibal Peter Bryan. The truth about what goes on behind the Victorian walls of the high security hospital has largely remained a mystery, but now with unprecedented access TV journalist Jonathan Levi and cultural historian Emma French paint a vivid picture of life at Broadmoor, after nearly a decade observing and speaking to those on the inside. Including interviews with the staff, its experts and the patients themselves, Inside Broadmoor is the most comprehensive study of the institution to-date. Published at the dawn of a new era for the hospital, this is the full story of Broadmoor's past, present and future and a dark but enlightening journey into the minds of Britain's most dangerous and how they are treated.
Broadmoor Women
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Author : Kim E Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2022-05-19
Broadmoor Women written by Kim E Thomas and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-19 with Social Science categories.
Broadmoor, Britain’s first asylum for criminal lunatics, was founded in 1863. In the first years of its existence, one in five patients was female. Most had been tried for terrible crimes and sent to Broadmoor after being found not guilty by virtue of insanity. Many had murdered their own children, while others had killed husbands or other family members. Drawing on Broadmoor’s rich archive, this book tells the story of seven of those women, ranging from a farmer’s daughter in her 20s who shot dead her own mother to a middle-class housewife who drowned her baby daughter. Their moving stories give a glimpse into what nineteenth-century life was like for ordinary women, often struggling with poverty, domestic abuse and repeated childbearing. For some, Broadmoor, with its regime of plain food, fresh air and garden walks, was a respite from the hardships of their previous life. Others were desperate to return to their families. All but one of the women whose stories are recounted in this book recovered and were released. Their bout of insanity was temporary. Yet the causes of their condition were poorly understood and the treatment rudimentary. As well as providing an in-depth look at the lives of women in Victorian England, the book offers a fascinating insight into the medical profession’s emerging understanding of the causes and treatment of mental illness.
The Surgeon Of Crowthorne
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Author : Simon Winchester
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2002-07-25
The Surgeon Of Crowthorne written by Simon Winchester and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the OED's editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him. What he found was incredible - Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder and yet who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language.
Murder Houses Of London
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Author : Jan Bondeson
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2014-01-15
Murder Houses Of London written by Jan Bondeson and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-15 with True Crime categories.
Which of London's most gruesome murders happened in your street? And were they committed by Jack the Ripper, the Kray twins, the Blackout Ripper or ‘Acid Bath’ Haigh?
At Home In The Institution
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Author : J. Hamlett
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-11-27
At Home In The Institution written by J. Hamlett and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-27 with History categories.
At Home in the Institution examines space and material culture in asylums, lodging houses and schools in Victorian and Edwardian England, and explores the powerful influence of domesticity on all three institutional types.