@RWhitechurch @_pastelpumpkin_ FY2021, Queen Elizabeth II received £86.3 million (i.e. equivalent to £1.29 per person in Britain). Her net worth is £365 million plus. The mean annual average salary for full-time workers in Britain for 2022 is £38,131. The national minimum wage is £9.50 per hour.
In 1831, Hanwell Asylum for pauper lunatics in London opened; managed by William Ellis who was revolutionary in improving how psychological disorders were treated. He introduced therapeutic methods & ended Workhouse barbarism. Suicide rates decreased & recovery rates increased.
In 1829, Danish novelist Steen Blicher published 'Præsten i Vejlbye' (The Rector of Veilbye). It was based upon an actual murder case in a village in 1626: a rector had been falsely-accused of murder, was tried & executed. Later, the truth came out of witness perjury.
In 1828, a notorious medical scandal was revealed in Edinburgh, Scotland: two men had been murdering people (17) to sell the corpses to a local anatomist. Medical research was not regulated. The scandal led to The Anatomy Act 1832.
In 1827, US-naturalist John Audubon began publication of 'The Birds of America' (1827-38). Some 435 hand-coloured, life-size prints of birds: 10% are now extinct and 35% are endangered. An attempt to induce more care for Nature, as US-expansion destroyed it...
