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This book examines the origins and early development of private mental health-care in England, showing that the current spectacle of commercially-based particip

This book explores the ways which people navigated the emotions provoked by the mad in Britain across the long eighteenth century. Building upon recent advances

This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire. Considering a variety of legal, archival, and published so

Making Mental Health: A Critical History historicises mental health by examining the concept from the ‘madness’ of the late nineteenth century to the changi

This edited volume brings together a range of scholars working on both the New Poor Law and the history of asylums. At its core is the pauper voice and pauper e