Liverpool docks pictured in 1881, around the time Lisa’s greatgreat-grandfather endured the harsh life of a docker, an experience that would have had a negative impact on his mental health
I’m on a journey of discovery into my family’s darkest history, unexplored before, where a diagnosis of insanity in Liverpool in the 1880s had devastating consequences for each generation that followed, including my own. As I begin to unravel the secrets of Victorian Liverpool, I wonder, is insanity inherited and if so, does the madness lie within?