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This book is open access under a CC BY license and explores the under-researched history of male mental illness from the ...

This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings ...

This book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, ...

This book explores the history of asylums and their civilian patients during the First World War, focusing on the effects ...

Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. ...

This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking ...

This book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in the nineteenth ...

This book tells the story of Barbara Robb and her pressure group, Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS). ...

This book explores the question of who or what ‘the public’ is within ‘public health’ in post-war Britain. Drawing ...

This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons ...

This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and ...

This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting (‘hanging in chains’), since the nineteenth ...

This book offers an unprecedented analysis of child welfare schemes, situating them in the wider context of post-war policy ...

This book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread ...

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