Sarah Wise is a social historian and visiting professor at the University of California's London Study Centre. Her previous books include Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England and The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum.

Her new website misssarahwise.co.uk lists the dates and venues where she will be speaking about The Undesirables – plus links to some of her other, shorter, writings and a list of her history and literature courses. Follow Sarah on Twitter/X: @misssarahwise.