{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/659bcdc155d0e200151baa2a/6629623a57a7a9001218dc17?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Undesirables","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/659bcdc155d0e200151baa2a/1713988143252-e5e025d4f43184ee02401a10abd1fcc5.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p><br></p><p>Join award winning Historian Sarah Wise as she discusses her latest book, The Undesirables for another episode of the Tap Into Podcast.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>The Undesirables</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>By 1950, an estimated 50,000 people had been deemed ‘defective’ by the British government and detained indefinitely under the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. Their ‘crimes’ were various: women with children born out of wedlock; rebellious teenagers caught shoplifting; those with epilepsy, hearing impairments and chronic illnesses who had struggled in school; and many who were simply ‘different’.</p><p><br></p><p>Forcibly removed from their families and confined to a shadow world of specialist facilities in the countryside, they were hidden away and forgotten – out of sight, out of mind.</p>","author_name":"dan clapton"}