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The idea that people are locked away in dark and dingy asylums is actually something we

probably get from Hollywood films and drama rather than a dispassionate look at the reality.

Certainly it was a patchy old picture but in some corners of Victorian Britain a very much

more occupational view of mental health care emerged. Stellarman is the oral historian working

for the Glenside Hospital Museum. It's a brilliant museum I've been there it's once a

a psychiatric institution in Bristol offered mental health treatment from 1861 to 1994.

In the 90th century it was opened up and it offered treatment to people who were referred to

at the time as pauper lunatics they were people from pau background who were suffering

from mental illness. So there was no tickler medicine available and so the asylum focused as

you'll hear on rest and nature and occupation trying to help people work do things find value and

alleviate issues of melancholia or probably depression as we call it today. So in this episode

Stellar digs into a wonderful archive of that museum. She shares stories of various patients

who walked through the doors of Glenside and back out again some who didn't walk back out again

and she digs into the patient records. A bit more of an accurate picture of how some victorians

did treat mental health. Fastening stuff. If you want to come to a live event it's in three weeks

time and see Beaver Me one of the great best-selling histories in the world or remarkable historians

written among other books of course the history of Starland Grab which is the anniversary of

this year. We're discussing this later but which is also interestingly time the Russian Revolution

a gigantic new account new source between the Russian Revolution. You're going Google dance

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