“Peoples is peoples”, I said as we moved through the Q&A session of Shauna Hick’s recent presentation “Finding Your Ancestors in Asylums”.  I could see agreement in the faces and body language of those assembled as I went on to acknowledge that our forebears are much more than names and dates.  They could be complex, multi layered personalities, who held values, espoused opinions and lived out morals that we may struggle to understand or are very different from our own. … Continue reading