May 17, 2021
Reverend Harold Nelson Burden was an early pioneer of mental healthcare for children and adults. He founded Stoke Park Colony with his first wife Katherine in 1909.
March 21, 2021
Exploring the beautifully drawn collection of portraits from the people of Epsom's hospital cluster by artist Georgia Kitty Harris.
February 15, 2021
In the ten years I have been researching the patients of the Bristol Lunatic Asylum, the thing that most struck me was the disparity between the popular view of asylums and the results of my studies.
April 19, 2020
The mysterious Lady of the Haystack. Why was Louisa admitted in 1781 to the lunatic ward of St Peters Hospital?
May 5, 2019
History portrays a neat progression from medieval and early modern supernatural belief toward the 19th-century science, but is that a simplification?
April 16, 2019
Albert James Home was born in Midsomer Norton, Somerset, then a mining town and new railway hub. The only child of William Home and Sarah Smith.
December 11, 2018
In the 80s and 90s, a very common complaint about psychiatric hospitals was that many patients were admitted numerous times; this was called the ‘revolving door problem’.
November 6, 2018
This first article will be part of a series considering the continuities and changes to life in the asylum, often focusing on individuals whose stories illustrate facets of the era before the asylum became Beaufort War Hospital in 1915
March 13, 2018
Dr Donal Early (1917-2004) pioneered a radical new way of treating mental illness in Bristol in the 1960s and with his wife Dr Prudence Early
