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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

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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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Making sunstroke insanity

Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.

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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists

Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.

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  • Annual report for the year 1902 (fifth year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
  • The blind school, Southwark. Engraving by H. Wallis after A. W. Wray.
  • Royal Caledonian Asylum, London: perspective view. Etching.
  • Royal Caledonian Asylum, London: perspective view. Etching.
  • Royal Caledonian Asylum, London: perspective view. Etching by T. Barber after T.H. Shepherd, 1828.
  • Asylum for the deaf and dumb, Camberwell. Engraving, 1822.
  • The female orphan asylum, Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth. Engraving.
  • Asylum for the deaf and dumb, Camberwell. Coloured engraving by J. Pass after himself, 1814.
  • Lambeth Female Orphan Asylum (formerly Beddington Park): view of the grounds. Etching by Flemming after T. Allom.
  • The London Orphan Asylum, Clapton. Engraving, 1838, after T. H. Shepherd.
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