Madness, Murder and Mayhem: Criminal Insanity in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

About Burt JohnBurtinshaw KathrynJohn BurtKathryn Burtinshaw

KATHRYN BURTINSHAW Kathryn has had a passion for family and local history all her life and inherited a fascination in Victorian and Edwardian crime from her father. With careers in both the Diplomatic Service and the Security Service she is an experienced researcher. She holds an Advanced Diploma in Local History from the University of Oxford and a M.Sc. in Genealogy Palaeography and Heraldry from the University of Strathclyde. Her M.Sc. dissertation looked in detail at the lives of epileptic women in asylums in the nineteenth century. DR JOHN BURT John is a qualified professional genealogist. A retired medical practitioner he worked in the NHS for over 30 years and is now an author researcher and lecturer in family history. John has a keen interest in the history of medicine military history and Scottish social history. His M.Sc. dissertation in Genealogy at the University of Strathclyde looked at admissions to the Scottish Borders District Lunatic Asylum in the late nineteenth century analysing patient demographics reasons for admission including hereditary illness and eventual patient outcomes. Kathryn and John published a book entitled Lunatics Imbeciles and Idiots: A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland published by Pen and Sword in 2017. They run a genealogy company Pinpoint Ancestry with branches in North Wales and Scotland. http://pinpointancestry.co.uk