Stories
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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
Catalogue
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Report of the County Lunatic Asylum, near Gloucester : 1861 / Gloucestershire General Lunatic Asylum.
Gloucestershire General Lunatic Asylum.Date: [1862]- Books
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Report of the County Lunatic Asylum, near Gloucester : 1860 / Gloucestershire General Lunatic Asylum.
Gloucestershire General Lunatic Asylum.Date: [1861]- Books
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Report of the County Lunatic Asylum, near Gloucester : 1863 / Gloucestershire General Lunatic Asylum.
Gloucestershire General Lunatic Asylum.Date: [1864]- Books
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Report of the County Lunatic Asylum, near Gloucester : 1862 / Gloucestershire General Lunatic Asylum.
Gloucestershire General Lunatic Asylum.Date: [1863]- Books
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Report of the County Lunatic Asylum, near Gloucester : 1859 / Gloucestershire General Lunatic Asylum.
Gloucestershire General Lunatic Asylum.Date: [1860]