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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. ...

the book investigates the reasons why Victorians and Edwardians consumed alcohol in the ways that they did and explores the ...

This Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, ...

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 contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the ...

This book offers a theoretical introduction to the history of experience on three conceptual levels: everyday experience, ...

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

This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean ...

This book consists of 39 short essays that exemplify how interactions between inter- and trans-national interdependencies ...

This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian ...

This Finland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as an empirical case in order to study the emergence, shaping and ...

This book provides a concise introduction to a critical development in memory studies. A global memory formation has emerged ...

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 ...

For many, the experience of religion and the family are organically connected: first exposure to religion often comes through ...

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