ARGONAUT BOOKS

The shocking story of how the British government locked up thousands of innocent people - then forgot about them. Reviews 'Is there any miscarriage of justice more grievous than a badly framed law? The historian Sarah Wise makes a powerful case for the prosecution in The Undesirables, a staggering study of 1913's largely forgotten Mental Deficiency Act... Wise's book bristles with injustices.' -Sunday Telegraph, ***** 'Social historian Sarah Wise has written an important, shocking book in The Undesirables: The Law That Locked Away a Generation…...Read More