Barrington, R. (1987) Health, Medicine and Politics in Ireland 1900–1970. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration.Google Scholar

Brock, L. G. (1934) Report of the Departmental Committee on Sterilisation. HMSO.Google Scholar

CareEngland (2016) Briefing for the Care Home Parliamentary Network. Available at: www.careengland.org.uk/sites/careengland/files/5.%20LD%20Employment%20-%20July%202016.pdf [accessed February 2017]Google Scholar

Carpenter, P. K. (1997) The Pauper Insane of Leicester in 1844. History of Psychiatry, 8, 517–38.Google Scholar

Carpenter, P. K. (1998) St Mary Magdalene Hospital, Bath – Its history to 1600. Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset, 34, 226–32.Google Scholar

Carpenter, P. K. (2000) The Bath Idiot and Imbecile Institution. History of Psychiatry, 11, 163–88.Google Scholar

Carpenter, P. K. (2001) The role of Victorian women in the care of ‘idiots’ and the ‘feeble-minded’. Journal on Developmental Disabilities, 8, 31–43.Google Scholar

Carpenter, P. K. (2002) A History of Brentry – House, Reformatory, Colony and Hospital. Friends of Glenside Hospital Museum.Google Scholar

Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection (2006) Joint Investigation into the Provision of Services for People with Learning Disabilities at Cornwall Partnership Trust. Healthcare Commission.Google Scholar

Regis, De Praerogativa (1324) 17 Edward 2 c.9 sets out property law, but see also Bracton (1968) De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliæ attributed to Henry of Bratton c.1210–1268. Trans. Samuel E. Thorne. Harvard University Press. Available at: http://bracton.law.harvard.edu/Common/index.htm [accessed 2 September 2018], which groups ‘fools’ and ‘idiots’ with ‘deaf and dumb’ and ‘lunatics’ in many areasGoogle Scholar

Faculty of Intellectual Disabilities (2013) People with Learning Disability and Mental Health, Behavioural or Forensic Problems: The Role of In-Patient Services. Faculty report FR/ID/03. Royal College of Psychiatrists.Google Scholar

Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities (2004) Greenlight Toolkit.Google Scholar

Heaton-Ward, W. A. (1963) Mental Subnormality (2nd edn). John Wright.Google Scholar

Heaton-Ward, W. A. (2011) Mental Handicap, the Shifting Sands: A Collection of Papers 1950–2001. Friends of Glenside Hospital Museum.Google Scholar

Heslop, P. (2013) Confidential Inquiry into the Deaths of People with Learning Disabilities (CIPOLD). Norah Fry Research Centre.Google Scholar

Idiots Act (1886) 49 Vict. cap. 25.Google Scholar

King’s Fund (1980) An Ordinary Life: Comprehensive Locally-Based Services for Mentally Handicapped People. Project paper no. 24. King’s Fund.Google Scholar

Lane, H. (1979) The Wild Boy of Aveyron. Harvard University Press.Google Scholar

Mencap (2007) Death by Indifference. Mencap.Google Scholar

Ministry of Health (1953) National Health Service: Hospital Costings Returns year Ending 31 March 1952. HMSO.Google Scholar

Orme, N. & Webster, M. (1995) The English Hospital 1070–1570. Yale University Press.Google Scholar

Poor Law Commissioners (1843) Ninth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales. Clowes.Google Scholar

Report of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded (1908), vol. 8. HMSO.Google Scholar

RMPA [Royal Medico-Psychological Association] (1931) Manual for Mental Deficiency Nurses. Bailliere.Google Scholar

Robins, J. (1992) From Rejection to Integration: A Centenary of Service by the Daughters of Charity to Persons with a Mental Handicap. Gill & MacMillan.Google Scholar

Stewart, D. (2016) What the Dickens! Presentation at 2016 Open University Learning Disability Conference. Available at: www.open.ac.uk/health-and-social-care/research/shld/conferences/conference-2016/what-dickens [accessed 12 February 2017]Google Scholar

Twining, W. (1843) Some Account of Cretinism and the Institution for Its Cure, on the Abendberg, near Interlachen, in Switzerland. Parker.Google Scholar

Webster, C. (1988) The Health Services since the War. Volume 1: Problems of Health Care, the National Health Service before 1957. HMSO.Google Scholar

Wolfensberger, W. (1972) The Principle of Normalization in Human Services. National Institute on Mental Retardation.Google Scholar

Wright, D. (2001) Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847–1901. Clarendon Press.Google Scholar

www.historyoflearningdisability.com – a website with useful background reading and links [accessed 2 September 2018]Google Scholar

www.open.ac.uk/health-and-social-care/research/shld – Open University website on the social history of learning disability [accessed 2 September 2018]Google Scholar