Sarah Wise

About The Author

Sarah Wise is a social historian and visiting professor at the University of California's London Study Centre. Her previous books include Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England and The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum.

Her new website misssarahwise.co.uk lists the dates and venues where she will be speaking about The Undesirables – plus links to some of her other, shorter, writings and a list of her history and literature courses. Follow Sarah on Twitter/X: @misssarahwise.

Books by Sarah Wise

The Undesirables

The Law that Locked Away a Generation

By Sarah Wise
Through the early twentieth century, the British Government locked away over 50,000 innocent people. Their ‘crimes’? Being poor and unyielding. This is their story.

A HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR

'Staggering… Wise's book bristles with injustices.' Sund...
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