Nellie Bly became hugely famous in 1887 when she went undercover to report a story for The New York World newspaper.  This was an  undercover assignment for which she agreed to feign insanity to investigate reports of brutality and neglect at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island.   Despite being in perfect health, four doctors along her entrance route to Blackwells Island pronounced her ‘positively demented’.  The result of Nelly’s undercover work led to a grand jury investigation, the addition of extra funding for those suffering from mental illness in New York and an overhaul of the horrific system. 

The people that time forgot is a weekly crusade podcast by Irish team Aisling Hurley and Niamh Quinn. Throughout history people have been written off, written out or just plain forgotten. Some of these people are pretty cool so we are righting this great wrong and documenting them here and we have a lot of fun while we're doing it. In normal life Aisling & Niamh are the team behind TBF (The Business Fairy) Digital Marketing Agency with Aisling being a writer and a frequent radio contributor and co-presenter. #TTFN #FIJDI Chat to us over on Twitter or Facebook @tbfcentral