Bedlam: When Madness Was a Paid Day Out
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Bedlam: When Madness Was a Paid Day Out
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Picture a grand day out in old London: your good clothes, a penny at the door, and entertainment inside. But this isn’t a theatre. It’s a madhouse — and the entertainment is the suffering of the people locked within.
In this final episode of our week on history’s cruelest punishments, Six Feet of History digs into Bethlem Royal Hospital — “Bedlam” — the centuries of chains and brutal “treatments,” the era when the public paid to gawk at the mentally ill as a day out, and the uncomfortable thread that ties the whole week together: cruelty has never needed monsters, only an audience.
Six Feet of History drops a new dark story every day. Follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen — because history has a body count.
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