Overcoming our mutual isolation: How historians and psychologists can work together.
Adjusting and fulfilling masculine roles: the epistolary persona in Dutch transatlantic letters
Mexicans in the Making of America
Was Plague an Exclusively Urban Phenomenon? Plague Mortality in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries
The history specialist in psychology: From avocation to professionalization.
Bonds of love, ties of kinship? Or are there other ways of imagining the family
Worktown: The Astonishing Story of the Project That Launched Mass Observation
In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Over three years, a team of ninety observers recorded, in painstaking detail, the everyday lives of ordinary working people at work and play – in the pub, dance hall, factory and on holiday. Their aim was to create an ‘anthropology of ourselves’.
The devil always experienced malicious pleasure in imposing himself in neuropsychiatric nosology
Founding mothers: Eglantyne Jebb (1876-1928) and Dorothy Buxton (1881-1963)
Insanity, Identity and Empire: Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and New Zealand 1873–1910 / Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness: New Zealand, 1860–1910
Barnardo’s archives reveal early lives of UK’s first fostered children
Women of WWII
Aid To Dependent Children: The Legal History
1940 SSA Poster Promoting ADC
What if Beveridge were reporting today?
Psychiatric governance, völkisch corporatism, and the German Research Institute of Psychiatry in Munich (1912-26). Part 2
Stories never before told from the Orphan Train
philly.com | Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Early 20th century photos from the Philadelphia Home for Infants, which merged with the Children’s Aid Society.
Bye laws, rules, orders, and instructions, for the better government and support of the poor, in the hundred of Bosmere and Claydon, in Suffolk (1813)
19th Century British Pamphlets
Devereux, Ellenberger, and the Early History of Transcultural Psychiatry
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Henri Ellenberger
First “orphan train” heads West
Orphaned or abandoned children in search of new families traveled west on trains like this one to Kansas, c. 1900.
What’s in the Basket of Goods? 80 years of shopping history
The Emergence of the Randomized, Controlled Trial
A Glede Amidst the Ashes/American Relief Aid and the Spanish Civil War, by ERIC R. SMITH, 2013
Between resentment and aid: German and Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist refugees in Great Britain since 1933
The Lvov-Warsaw School: The forgotten tradition of historical psychology.
Shell-Shocked Britain: Understanding the lasting trauma of the First World War
Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland. Edited by Janay Nugent and Elizabeth Ewan (Rochester, N.Y., Boydell Press, 2015) 235 pp. $99.00
Considering Corruption’s Curse: Venality across Time and Space
Saulo de Freitas Araujo’s “Toward a philosophical history of psychology”
Saulo de Freitas Araujo
From Vagrancy Heterotopias to the Proximity of Homelessness. A Historical Ethnography of the State’s Moral Dilemmas in the Management of Unease
Early intervention for incipient insanity: early notions from the 19th century English literature
Pension reforms in Chile and social security principles, 1981–2015
The Sea Shelter Program: The Communist Party, the New Deal, and Seamen’s Relief
A Demographic Deficit? Local Population Aging and Access to Services in Rural America, 1990–2010
History of Street Gangs in the United States
USAID
Figure 3: The Revolving Door of Transnational Gang Member Migration
Widowers and their sisters-in-law: family crises, horizontally organised relationships and affinal relatives in the nineteenth century
‘If it is not too expensive, then you can send me sugar’: money matters among migrants and their families
The lessons of history: The role of the nation-states and the EU in fighting violence against women in 10 European countries
Eugenics ideals, racial hygiene, and the emigration process of German-American neurogeneticist Franz Josef Kallmann (1897–1965)
England & Wales, Crime, Prisons & Punishment, 1770-1935
National Archives
Mental health nursing: the working lives of paid carers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Social work (1919)
Conspiracy to corrupt public morals and the ‘unlawful’ status of homosexuality in Britain after 1967
Of sorcerers and thought leaders: marketing the information revolution in the 1960s
‘The salvation of them’: emigration to North America from the nineteenth-century Irish women’s convict prison
The Townsend Plan Movement
Eugenics and social welfare bulletin, Issue 6
Workhouses
London Lives
Thomas Gibson’s plan for a workhouse as included in Henry Fielding, Proposal for Making Effectual Provision for the Poor, 1753
TWO Witch-hunts: On (Not) Seeing Red in LGBT History
The Women’s Party of Great Britain (1917–1919): a forgotten episode in British women’s political history