Tracing Your Ancestors in Lunatic Asylums
eBook - ePub

Tracing Your Ancestors in Lunatic Asylums

A Guide for Family Historians

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Tracing Your Ancestors in Lunatic Asylums

A Guide for Family Historians

About this book

A concise handbook for genealogical research into patients of British mental institutions from the 18th to the early 20th centuries.
An expert in British Victorian history, Michelle Higgs helps readers uncover information about relatives whose lives are too often forgotten. Higgs concentrates on the period from the eighteenth century to 1948 when the National Health Service was founded. Using original records, contemporary accounts, photographs, illustrations and case studies of real individuals, Higgs brings the story of the asylums and their patients to life.
Different types of institution are covered, including private madhouses, county lunatic asylums, facilities for idiots and imbeciles, and military mental hospitals. Chapters look at the admission procedures and daily routine of patients, plus different kinds of mental illness and how they were treated. Separate sections discuss the systems in Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales. Information is provided on all the relevant sources, from wills and the census to casebooks and admission and discharge registers.

Information

Publisher
Pen & Sword Family History
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9781526744869
Print ISBN
9781526744852
Subtopic
Modern British History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Documents and Illustrations
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1 Care of the Mentally Ill Before 1800
  10. Chapter 2 Lunatic Asylums of the Nineteenth Century
  11. Chapter 3 Twentieth-Century Mental Institutions
  12. Chapter 4 Mental Illnesses
  13. Chapter 5 Inside the Asylum
  14. Chapter 6 The Mentally Ill in Workhouses
  15. Chapter 7 Criminal Lunatics
  16. Chapter 8 Asylums for Idiots and Imbeciles
  17. Chapter 9 Mental Illness in the Armed Forces
  18. Chapter 10 Sources
  19. Appendix 1 Terminology in Lunatic Asylum Records
  20. Appendix 2 Useful Websites
  21. Appendix 3 Places to Visit
  22. Bibliography

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