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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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 ...
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Cultural Convergence The Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928–1960
Based on extensive archival research, this book examines the poetics and politics of the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) ...
Lee masDissecting 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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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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Housing Contemporary Ireland
This book, the first comprehensive review of housing in Ireland for many years, introduces, in an accessible manner, the ...
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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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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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Quality of Life in Ireland : Social Impact of Economic Boom
The Irish economic boom has caused the economy in Ireland to roar ahead, but what has it done to Irish society? Some see ...
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Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and ...
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The Environmental Movement in Ireland
Collective responses to Ireland’s dramatic transformation from a primarily agrarian and rural society to an industrialised ...
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The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting (‘hanging in chains’), since the nineteenth ...
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UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970 A Study in Policy Failure
This book offers an unprecedented analysis of child welfare schemes, situating them in the wider context of post-war policy ...
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Vermin, Victims and Disease : British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers
This book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread ...
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Wellbeing and Devolution
In this book, Wallace offers a practical and balanced analysis of the evolution of wellbeing as a policy narrative and framework ...
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