The Glasgow Lock Hospital for Unfortunate Females was  supposed to help vulnerable girls and women in the 19th century – instead it continued their abuse

Volodja1984/Shutterstock Nine-year-old Annie McGuire and seven-year-old Elizabeth Martin were among thousands of women and girls admitted to the Glasgow Lock Hospital for Unfortunate Females, one of a network of Lock hospitals built across Britain and its colonies in the 19th century, between 1846 and 1947. Established to diagnose and treatContinue Reading