Jane Hamlett

Residential Institutions in Britain, 1725-1970 (eBook, ePUB)

Inmates and Environments

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this collection explore both organizational intentions and inhabitants' experiences in a diverse range of British residential institutions during a period when such provision was dramatically increasing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317320258
• Artikelnr.: 43589727

Autorenporträt

Jane Hamlett, Lesley Hoskins, Rebecca Preston

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Jane Hamlett
Lesley Hoskins
Rebecca Preston; Chapter 1 Viewing the Early Twentieth-Century Institutional Interior through the Pages of Living London
Fiona Fisher; Chapter 2 'French Beef Was Better than Hampstead Beef': Taste
Treatment and Pauperism in a London Smallpox Hospital
1871
Matthew L. Newsom Kerr; Chapter 3 From Asylum to Mental Hospital: Gender
Space and the Patient Experience in London County Council Asylums
1890-1910
Louise Hide; Chapter 4 Refuge or Prison? Girls' Experiences of a Home for the 'Mentally Defective' in Scotland
1906-1948
Mary Clare Martin; Chapter 5 Paupers and Their Experience of a London Workhouse: St Martin-in-the-Fields
1725-1824
Jeremy Boulton
John Black; Chapter 6 'A Veritable Palace for the Hardworking Labourer?' Space
Material Culture and Inmate Experience in London's Rowton Houses
1892-1918
Jane Hamlett
Rebecca Preston; Chapter 7 'The Place Was a Home From Home': Identity and Belonging in the English Cottage Home for Convalescing Psychiatric Patients
1910-1939
Stephen Soanes; Chapter 8 'The Father and Mother of the Place': Inhabiting London's Public Libraries
1885-1940
Michelle Johansen; Chapter 9 'Discipline with Home-Like Conditions': The Living Quarters and Daily Life of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in First-World-War Britain and France
Krisztina Robert; Chapter 10 Halls of Residence at Britain's Civic Universities
1870-1970
William Whyte;