Join us for our Summer Lecture Series on Barnardo’s East End.
Social historian Sarah Wise delves into the hugely admired, and hotly criticised, work of Victorian philanthropist Annie Macpherson.
Sarah Wise teaches 19th-century social history and literature to undergraduates and adult learners and is visiting professor at the University of California’s London Study Center. Her new book is The Undesirables: The Law That Locked Away a Generation (Oneworld, April 2024), which examines the plight of the 50,000 people who were confined under an extraordinarily illiberal parliamentary measure, the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act.
£5 Adults £2.50 Concessions. Tickets avialable on Eventbrite via our website
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