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Change Minds Online 2022: Emma Peters by Deirdre McGale

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A photograph of Emma Peters taken from our casebook of admissions from 1888

Emma Peters was admitted into Bethlem in 1888. Here our participant shares her response to the research she made into her life, using our project notebook.

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