Researching the history of the asylum can be a case of feast and famine, often at the same time. Some asylums left, if not mountains of records, then at least large hills. I mean that literally. An ...

Century-old photographs of patients treated in a mental asylum during the Victorian and Edwardian eras are being unearthed to ...

Volunteers who look after a cemetery have thanked a local business for their "extraordinary gesture of kindness" after they fixed a damaged headstone. The memorial stone for Herbert Mackie at Mendip ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

"One can hardly imagine a human being in a more degraded and brutalised condition than that in which I found this female." These were the damning words of an inspector who visited London's Bethlem ...

It left patients as "shells of their former selves".

There is bipartisan agreement for the need for immigration reform and stark disagreement on what that reform should be. A rise in illegal border crossings since 2020 has applied significant pressure ...