Stories
- Article
Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
- Article
Coasting to catastrophe
In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.
- Long read
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.
- Article
The shocking ‘treatment’ to make lesbians straight
Being a lesbian has never been a crime in the UK, but 50 years ago, some psychologists experimented with treatments to try to ‘cure’ women of their orientation. Find out what this involved.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Chapter 35. Doris Odlum, 'The Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Joint Hospitals and Institute of Psychiatry'
Date: 1968Reference: MS.7913/37Part of: The Expanding Field of Mental Health in England and Wales, 50 years of progress, 1918-1968- Pictures
West Park Mental Hospital, Epsom: a view of the reception hospitals. Process print, 1926.
Date: 1926Reference: 552147iPart of: Architecture illustrated.- Pictures
West Park Mental Hospital, Epsom: plan of the male ward in the phthisis and dysentery block. Process print, 1926.
Date: 1926Reference: 552141iPart of: Architecture illustrated.- Books
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The annual reports of the county lunatic asylums and hospitals of the insane in England and Wales, published during the year 1855 / [reviewed by] J.C.B. [i.e. John Charles Bucknill].
Bucknill, John Charles, 1817-1897.Date: 1856- Books
The facilities and services of mental illness and mental handicap hospitals in England, 1974.
Date: [1976]