Faces of the Asylum: The Patients of the Bristol Lunatic Asylum in the Nineteenth Century

By Paul Tobia

Issue 26, Winter/Spring 2013 pp 32-36

Bristol Record Office holds a remarkable photographic archive of patients in Bristol’s nineteenth century Lunatic Asylum. In this article, Paul Tobia asks what these compelling and intimate portraits can tell us.

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