Women, Marriage and Work in the British Diplomatic Service
Meeting The Beatles: what Beatlemania can tell us about West Germany in the 1960s
When West Germany “met” The Beatles, that encounter both resembled Beatlemania elsewhere and was inflected by specifically German contexts such as the Cold War division into East and West, the Nazi past, and the Economic Miracle.
Ideological dimensions of the “Balkan Family Pattern” in the first half of the 20th century
The Padded Cell
thetimechamber.co.uk
As infamous as the Asylums themselves, the Padded Cell was an essential piece of equipment within the wards. They were a special room and it was not intended that patients were housed in them for long periods of time; it was used so that patients did not harm themselves when suffering from an epileptic or psychotic episode. Suicidal and violent patients were also placed within them.
“To Everything There Is a Season:” Pete Seeger and the Power of Song
Falconwood Site: 115 Murchison Lane, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, C1A, Canada
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Engraving of the former Falconwood Insane Asylum
Cold War Progressives: women’s interracial organizing for peace and freedom
‘No Suggestion of Suffragettism’: the Blue Blouses in Ireland, 1933–1936
Sir William Beveridge
Library and Archives Canada, PA-175614. © Estate of Yousuf Karsh
Sir William Beveridge in 1943, when he was in Ottawa to testify before the House of Commons Special Committee on Social Security, which was planning for the future of Canadians after the Second World War.
Asylum Architecture: The Radial Plan
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Devon County Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Exeter
Making Modern Love: sexual narratives and identities in interwar Britain; LISA Z. SIGEL
Broca and Charcot’s Research on Jacques Inaudi: The Psychological and Anthropological Study of a Mental Calculator
In the nineteenth century, French scientific institutions became interested in young “mental calculators,” arithmetical prodigies able to quickly and accurately perform complex mental calculations. The first scientists to study mental calculators were phrenologists who sought to prove the existence of a calculating organ in the frontal lobe.
Dangerous World, Dangerous Liberties: Aspects of the Smith Act Prosecutions
Beginning an ‘Extraordinary Opportunity’: Eleanor Roosevelt, Molly Dewson, and the expansion of women’s boundaries in the Democratic Party, 1924–1934
The Rise and Decline of Psychiatric Hydrotherapy
Oskar Diethelm Library
‘Rapid tranquillisation’: an historical perspective on its emergence in the context of the development of antipsychotic medications
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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King contributed to the development of the federal government’s role in social welfare by introducing old-age pensions in 1927, unemployment insurance in 1940, family allowance in 1944 and proposals for health insurance in the 1940s.
Cruel Modernity
South-Eastern Europe: challenges and prospects for family history
Detroit’s Cold War: The Origins of Postwar Conservatism
Well-Being and Growth: A Diachronic Discourse
Winning for Losing: A New Look at Harry Bridges and the “Big Strike” of 1934
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House
Social Welfare History Project
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House was founded in 1894 by the Alumnae Association of Normal College (now known as Hunter College of the City University of New York) as a free kindergarten for the children of indigent immigrants. Since then, we have remained at the forefront of community advocacy and social and educational change. We have long been a center of community leadership in addressing such issues as affordable housing, poor working conditions, health care, hunger, early childhood education, poverty, unemployment, homelessness, juvenile delinquency, crime prevention and long-term care for older adults.
The powers of suggestion: Albert Moll and the debate on hypnosis
Strong and weak family ties revisited: reconsidering European family structures from a network perspective
Modern Women on Trial: sexual transgressions in the age of the flapper
Household and family during urbanization and industrialization: efforts to shed new light on an old debate
A History of Neighborhood House in Logan Heights: Jane Addams and the 1930′s
San Diego Free Press
Emotional Deviants and the Politics of Love: ‘spiritual friendships’ in late nineteenth-century Christchurch
Historicizing labor cinema: recovering class and lost work on screen
Dr. Benjamin Rush and Early Psychiatric Treatment
Princeton
This picture shows one of his inventions, known as the “Tranquilizer,” which was designed to “keep the maniacs in the inflammatory stage of their disease in a perpendicular position so as to save the head from the impetus of the blood as much as possible.”
Florence and Rosamond Davenport Hill and the Development of Boarding Out in England and Australia: a study in cultural transmission
Holocaust Survival Differentials in the Netherlands, 1942–1945: The Role of Wealth and Nationality
Reproductive behaviour in the Lutheran urban family from historical Poland (the Parish of St. Peter from Poznań, the second half of the nineteenth century)
Between Denmark and Detroit: unionized labour at Ford Motor Company, Copenhagen, 1919–1939
Militant Women: representations of Charlotte Corday, Louise Michel and Emmeline Pankhurst
Mental health, citizenship, and the memory of World War II in the Netherlands (1945-85)
A Historical Account of Community Mobilization in Public Education in Early Twentieth-Century African America: introducing Miss Virginia Estelle Randolph, master-teacher and community mobilizer
“Picturesque Incisiveness”: Explaining the Celebrity of James’s Theory of Emotion
The growth and the stagnation of work stress: Publication trends and scientific representations 1960-2011
Liberating the female self: epiphanies, conflict and coherence in the life stories of post-war British women
‘…we may lie and die in a land of plenty…’: The Victorian poor in their own words
Picturesque Incisiveness: Explaining the Celebrity of James’s Theory of Emotion
William James is the name that comes to mind when asked about scientific explanations of emotion in the nineteenth century. However, strictly speaking James’s theory of emotion does not explain emotions and never did.
The colonisation of employment regulation and industrial relations? Dynamics and developments over five decades of change
Nanny Knows Best: the history of the British nanny
Women’s Refuges and the State in Victoria, Australia: a campaign for secrecy of address
The development of women’s refuges in Victoria, Australia emerged within the context of emergency accommodation for women being the province of charity-based organisations, whose interventions into women’s lives were often disempowering and autocratic.
Hermannsburg, 1929: Turning Aboriginal “Primitives” into Modern Psychological Subjects
These intense interactions in the central deserts show us how Aboriginal thinking could make whites think again about themselves—and forget, for a moment, that many of their research subjects were starving.
Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse: Social work and the story of poverty in America, Australia and Britain
Speaking of flowers: Student movements and the making and remembering of 1968 in military Brazil
