This story is just as much about Jackie as it is Figgy, and so the thrills of performance are juxtaposed with the struggles of motherhood
On 19 May 1815, a Parliamentary enquiry was told that chains and fetters were only suitable for "pauper lunatics"
Find out more about what historian Roger Smith had to say at the recent European Association for the History of Medical Health Conference.
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