History (4,531 posts)

Prisoners and Mental Illness in Prisons, 1850–2000

Since the inception of the ‘modern’ prison system in the mid-nineteenth century to the current day, the relationship between mental illness and the prison has been hotly debated, in terms of why so many prisons came to contain large numbers of mentally ill people, as well as their tendency as institutions to produce or exacerbate mental disease.

Amiable Warriors: A History of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality

The Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) is the oldest surviving LGBT organisation in the UK.

The ‘flood’ of 1945: regimes and repertoires of migration in the Soviet Union at war’s end

Clyde Warrior: tradition, community, and Red Power

Bearing Witness: Journalists, Record Keepers and the 1917 Halifax Explosion

At approximately 8:45 a.m. on 6 December 1917, the Belgian Relief vessel IMO struck the munitions-laden freighter Mont-Blanc in Halifax Harbour. The Mont-Blanc exploded in a devastating 2.9 kiloton blast, which killed 2,000 people and injured 9,000. More than 6,000 people were made homeless, and an additional 12,000 were left without shelter.

The Abramovitch Campaign and What It Tells Us about American Communism

Separate Confinement and Insanity at Mountjoy Convict Prison, Dublin 1850-55

Mountjoy Prison, Dublin 1850

Reassessing the pauper burial: the disposal of corpses in nineteenth-century Brussels

Insanity, Identity and Empire: Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910 and Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness: New Zealand, 1860–1910

The All-Asian Women’s Conference 1931: Indian women and their leadership of a pan-Asian feminist organisation

‘Just Another Start to the Denigration of Anzac Day’: Evolving Commemorations of Australian LGBTI Military Service

100 years of the WI: The acceptable face of feminism

Professor Maggie Andrews discusses some of the key campaigns and concerns of the Women’s Institute, from its origins in the First World War to the 1950s when, with half a million members, it was firmly established as the largest women’s organisation in Britain.

‘Call Us Ms.’: Viva and arguments for Kenyan women’s respectable citizenship 1975–80

A new insurgency: the Port Huron Statement and its times

Michael Whitfield, The Dispensaries: Healthcare for the Poor Before the NHS.

Detroit 1967: Origins, Impacts, Legacies

How the launch of a new journal in 1904 may have changed the relationship between psychology and philosophy.

Clara Brian champion of farm families

Baltimore City Public Schools Social Work Services (BCPS)

BCPS

A project Joan Y. Harris, ACSW

Prison break: Karl Menninger’s The Crime of Punishment and its reception in U.S. psychology.

Saul Alinsky

The Great Labour Unrest: rank-and-file movements and political change in the Durham coalfield

Eugene Kinckle Jones: The National Urban League and Black Social Work, 1910-1940

Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War

Universal Principles of Depicting Oneself across the Centuries: From Renaissance Self-Portraits to Selfie-Photographs

Mary C. Ousler: Keeper of the Census Records

Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers: Decade Three | 1984-1993

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New Zealand Council for Education and Training in Social Services 1993

Jeannette Rankin was sworn in 100 years ago as the first congresswoman

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Jeannette Pickering Rankin was born near Missoula in western Montana. After graduating from the nearby University of Montana, she followed a restless path to Boston, San Francisco, New York (where she earned a graduate degree in social work from Columbia University), Washington state, and then back to Montana to successfully advocate for women’s suffrage.

Social Work in London, 1869-1912: A History of the Charity Organisation Society

Institutionalising senile dementia in 19th-century Britain

Family, demography and labour relations

Lessons from the past: Family involvement in patient admission and discharge, Beechworth Lunatic Asylum, 1900–1912

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Beechworth Asylum. Photo circa 1867

Please don’t dominate the rap: the Grateful Dead and the Columbia University student strike

Charities and the Commons

Review of The last asylum: A memoir of madness in our times.

My mother before me

The History of Emotions in Australia

The rise of living alone and loneliness in history

The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing

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UK: Education in 1911

Radical Casework: A Theory of Practice (1993)

The Two Hundred and Fifty Year Transition: How the American Empire Became Capitalist

The Very Drugged Nazis

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Adolf Hitler presenting Theodor Morell, his personal physician, with the Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross at his headquarters, 1944

The Meaning of Resilience: Soviet Children in World War II

Selling Under the Swastika: advertising and commercial culture in Nazi Germany

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Selling Under the Swastika: advertising and commercial culture in Nazi Germany

The Real Irish-American Story Not Taught in Schools

Common Dreams | Sketch: The Irish Famine: Interior of a Peasants Hut

To support the famine relief effort, British tax policy required landlords to pay the local taxes of their poorest tenant farmers, leading many landlords to forcibly evict struggling farmers and destroy their cottages in order to save money.

Barbara Gittings, Gay Rights, and DSM Reform

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AHP | KT Lahusen

Barbara Gittings, Frank Kameny, and John E. Fryer in disguise as Dr. H. Anonymous.