Finding Keepers: Mental Illness in the 19th century

Caring for the mentally ill in Victorian Britain was hard, unrewarding and dangerously unregulated. Alexander Morison tried to improve things for both the unwell and their carers.

Alexander Morison by Richard Dadd, 1852. Courtesy The National Galleries of Scotland.

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