Residential Institutions in Britain, 1725–1970: Inmates and Environments

Residential Institutions in Britain, 1725–1970

Inmates and Environments

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Edited by Jane Hamlett, Royal Holloway, University of London, Lesley Hoskins, Queen Mary, University of London, Rebecca Preston, Royal Holloway, University of London

Publisher:: Pickering & Chatto
Online publication date:: December 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781781440117

Subjects:: History, History of Medicine

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Institutions were intended to mould their inhabitants, and were organized in line with professional and economic constraints, public opinion, or the need to appeal to potential inmates. The authorities often modelled their arrangements on domestic ideals, and the imagined home was frequently the yardstick against which occupants measured their experiences of institutional life. 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. The book addresses inmates, environments and interactions, with essays focusing on questions of authority, resistance, agency, domesticity and the material world.

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Residential Institutions in Britain, 1725–1970

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

List of Contributors
pp xi-xiv

List of Figures
pp xv-xvi

Introduction
pp 1-16

1 - Viewing the Early Twentieth-Century Institutional Interior through the Pages of Living London
pp 17-34

2 - ‘French Beef was Better than Hampstead Beef’: Taste, Treatment and Pauperism in a London Smallpox Hospital, 1871
pp 35-50

3 - From Asylum to Mental Hospital: Gender, Space and the Patient Experience in London County Council Asylums, 1890–1910
pp 51-64

4 - Refuge or Prison? Girls' Experiences of a Home for the ‘Mentally Defective’ in Scotland, 1906–1948
pp 65-78

5 - Paupers and their Experience of a London Workhouse: St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1725–1824
pp 79-92

6 - ‘A Veritable Palace for the Hard-Working Labourer?’ Space, Material Culture and Inmate Experience in London's Rowton Houses, 1892–1918
pp 93-108

7 - ‘The Place was a Home from Home’: Identity and Belonging in the English Cottage Home for Convalescing Psychiatric Patients, 1910–1939
pp 109-124

8 - ‘The Father and Mother of the Place’: Inhabiting London's Public Libraries, 1885–1940
pp 125-140

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
pp 141-154

10 - Halls of Residence at Britain's Civic Universities, 1870–1970
pp 155-166

Notes
pp 167-212

Index
pp 213-230

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