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Broadmoor looks back

By Rags Martel

Updated on 18 November 2008

Illuminating the truth of the Victorian asylum, More4 News reports on an unusual glimpse into the history of Broadmoor.

It's an abiding folk memory - Bedlam, men in white coats and the horrors of the Victorian asylum.

Now in an unusual glimpse into the past, Broadmoor, the famous hospital for the criminally insane, has today published the files of several of its patients from the 19th century.

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