The Beveridge report 80 years on: ‘Squalor’ and housing—‘A true goliath’
Life in the workhouse: everything you wanted to know
What Made the Battle of Blair Mountain the Largest Labor Uprising in American History
Smithsonian Magazine | Kinograms/Wikicommons
The Battle of Blair Mountain saw 10,000 West Virginia coal miners march in protest of perilous work conditions, squalid housing and low wages, among other grievances.
Between drift and confinement: What can the study of “lunatics” in Hong Kong contribute to the historiography mental health in East Asia?
What 18th-century suicide inquests tell us about growing old in Georgian England
Many elderly ended up in workhouses as they were unable to work normal jobs and therefore cover the costs of living.
Traumatic Pasts in Asia: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present
The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940–1960
The evolution of the narcolepsy concept in Russia: A historical view
Iria Suárez Martinez: Designing the Modern Space for Sick Children in East London, 1850-1900
Ten years later: Self‐sufficiency of welfare mothers before the Great Recession
An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration
Labor’s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work
The Young Lords: A Radical History
The Men’s Shed Movement in Australia: Rights, Needs and the Politics of Settler National Manhood
Infanticide and the influence of psychoanalysis on Dutch forensic psychiatry in the mid-twentieth century
The Age of Intoxication Origins of the Global Drug Trade
Histories and cultures of mental health in Modern East Asia: New directions
In the Wake of the Sexual Revolution: New Histories of Sexual and Gender Politics in Contemporary Australia
The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State
Australian Secularism, the Sexual Revolution and the Making of the New Christian Right
Closing the Asylum: The Mental Patient in Modern Society
The Lakota never left
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Members of the American Indian Movement and the Oglala Sioux in a stand-off with FBI agents, National Guard soldiers, and federal marshals at Wounded Knee in March 1973.
The Making of Ireland’s Carceral State
An unidentified Magdalene laundry in Ireland in the early twentieth century.
The Ageing Body, Memory-Loss and Suicide in Georgian England
The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy
Madness & misery in Antarctica
Psychologies in Revolution: Alexander Luria’s ‘Romantic Science’ and Soviet Social History
‘More than a defence against bills’: feminism and national identity in the Scottish abortion campaign, c. 1975–1990
American Health Crisis: One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and Politics
The German Experiment that Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles
The Snake Pit: Mixing Marx with Freud in Hollywood
See clip from the film here: The Snake Pit
Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War: A Study of Austerity on London’s Fringe
DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible
The Curious Case of Aleksandar Milivojević: The Donja Toponica Hospital and Mental Health in Socialist Yugoslavia
Looking Back: The Important Role of Science in Fulfilling the Occupational Safety and Health Act
Literacy, Advocacy and Agency: The Campaign for Political Recognition of Dyslexia in Britain (1962–1997)
An Anarchist View from Havana: Isbel Diaz Torres
The story of America: the Kerner report, national leadership, and liberal renewal, 1967-1968
The rhetorical use of B. F. Skinner in evolutionary psychology
Why Swedes Trust the State and Scots Do Not: An Exploration of the Diverse Protestant Roots of Modern Welfare Systems
‘Flash houses’: Public houses and geographies of moral contagion in 19th-century London
The staff of madness: The visualization of insanity and the othering of the insane
History of Psychiatry | Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department
A fool, beginning of Psalm 52. Bible du XIIIe siècle. 1475(?); Rouen, France
Britain’s Swinging Sixties: everything you wanted to know
Normality: A collection of essays
Helping Troubled Children and Cultivating the Race: The Mental Hygienic Guidance Centres of the Public Health Association of Swedish Finland, 1930s–1950s
Against all odds: achieving collective action among home care workers in Oregon
Sixties Europe
