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An unprecedented number of people were sent to 'lunatic asylums' in the nineteenth century. But what was life like inside? How was order maintained? And why wer

This book explores the impact that politics had on the management of mental health care at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 1888 and the intr

This book traces the role played by music within asylums, the participation of staff and patients in musical activity, and the links drawn between music, health

About the publication Pathways of patients explores the casebooks of the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum during the superintendence of Dr Thomas Duncan Greenlees, fr

This open access book explores the history of asylums and their civilian patients during the First World War, focusing on the effects of wartime austerity and d