Stories
- Article
Transforming the decorative into dissent
Discover how embroidered messages by two ‘troublesome’ women in 19th-century asylums are mirrored in the therapeutic quilting work of writer Rachel May.
- Article
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.
- Article
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.
- Article
Notes on need
Writing about bodies, and hearing the stories of others’ bodies, Johanna Hedva also heard, over and over, how people blame themselves – and are encouraged to do this – for illness and disability.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Lunatic" Letters
Date: 1954-2005Reference: SB/1/5Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection
- Pictures
Lunatic Asylum, Adelaide. Engraving.
Reference: 15371i- Books
Lunatic or heroine? / David Rubinstein.
Rubinstein, David.Date: 1986- Archives and manuscripts
R - "Lunatic" Correspondence
Date: 2000-2009Reference: SB/1/5/20Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Archives and manuscripts
J - "Lunatic" Correspondence
Date: 1984-1991Reference: SB/1/5/10Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection
