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Digging Up Your Roots

Series 7

Episode 3

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands

Over the last 150 years, the way mentally ill people are treated has changed dramatically. These days, the focus is on care in the community. But in Victorian Scotland, the patient risked being committed to one of the many lunatic asylums around the country. Bill Whiteford and genealogist, Professor Bruce Durie visit Craig House Hospital in Edinburgh where one listener's ancestor, Ethel Gilroy, spent almost her entire adult life. Show less

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