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The ‘hatter’ may really have been mad

Anyone familiar with Alice in Wonderland remembers the Mad Hatter. But how'd he get the name? Bill Radke talks to Dr. Alison Matthews David, who explains the correlation between hat-making and mental imbalance in 19th-century England.

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