ABSTRACT
AIMS OF THE CHAPTER Duncan Macmillan House is an imposing Victorian building that was formerly an asylum, at the edge of Nottingham city. Nowadays, with the city’s enlargement, it occupies a less peripheral position and is the headquarters of an NHS mental health trust. It no longer serves as a hospital. Thoroughly modernised from the inside, it still retains an impressive but somewhat sombre visage. Each time I enter, I wonder what life was like for those who lived or were incarcerated there.
