Annie Macpherson: fighting ‘Satan’ in Whitechapel and Bethnal Green

The talk will start at 7pm on the 2nd floor and last for an hour with time for questions.

You are invited to enjoy our canal-side café and look round the Museum before the talk starts. The Museum has step-free access and a lift.

£5 Adults - £2.50 Concessions (over 65s and students)

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.

We are grateful to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for their generous support of this lecture series.