Emma French writes about how particular people, places, and stories hit the headlines and capture the public imagination. Her books include Selling Shakespeare to Hollywood, and, as coauthor with Jonathan Levi, Hatton Garden: The Inside Story. She lives in London with her husband and their three children.
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Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has contained the UK's most violent, dangerous and psychopathic. Since opening as an asylum for the criminally insane in 1863 it has housed the perpetrators of m... SEE MORE