The history of lunatic asylums – what do we really know about them? Films and television programs have portrayed them as ...
Lire la suiteThis open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced ...
Lire la suitethe book investigates the reasons why Victorians and Edwardians consumed alcohol in the ways that they did and explores the ...
Lire la suiteThis book provides new insights into the relationships between religion and demography during the crucial period of the nineteenth ...
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