A History of Male Psychological Disorders in Britain, 1945–1980
This book is open access under a CC BY license and explores the under-researched history of male mental illness from the ...
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Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain
This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings ...
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Art Intervention in the City / Hadas Ophrat
This book focuses on the phenomenon of art intervention—an expression of local initiatives by artists, collectives, and ...
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Bearing Witness Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920–2000)
This book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, ...
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Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War A Study of Austerity on London's Fringe
This book explores the history of asylums and their civilian patients during the First World War, focusing on the effects ...
اقرأ المزيدDissecting the Criminal Corpse : Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England
Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. ...
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Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
the book investigates the reasons why Victorians and Edwardians consumed alcohol in the ways that they did and explores the ...
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Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere
This Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, ...
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Executing Magic in the Modern Era
This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking ...
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From Melancholia to Depression Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry
This book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in the nineteenth ...
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Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century In and Beyond the Asylum
This book contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the ...
اقرأ المزيدHistories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion
This book offers a theoretical introduction to the history of experience on three conceptual levels: everyday experience, ...
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Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People
This book tells the story of Barbara Robb and her pressure group, Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS). ...
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings
This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean ...
اقرأ المزيدInternational Impacts on Social Policy : Short Histories in Global Perspective
This book consists of 39 short essays that exemplify how interactions between inter- and trans-national interdependencies ...
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Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum
This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian ...
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Lived Nation as the History of Experiences and Emotions in Finland, 1800-2000
This Finland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as an empirical case in order to study the emergence, shaping and ...
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Mnemonic Solidarity Global Interventions
This book provides a concise introduction to a critical development in memory studies. A global memory formation has emerged ...
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Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain, 1948–2012
This book explores the question of who or what ‘the public’ is within ‘public health’ in post-war Britain. Drawing ...
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Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840
This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons ...
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