Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1 Viewing the Early Twentieth-Century Institutional Interior through the Pages of Living London
- 2 ‘French Beef was Better than Hampstead Beef’: Taste, Treatment and Pauperism in a London Smallpox Hospital, 1871
- 3 From Asylum to Mental Hospital: Gender, Space and the Patient Experience in London County Council Asylums, 1890–1910
- 4 Refuge or Prison? Girls' Experiences of a Home for the ‘Mentally Defective’ in Scotland, 1906–1948
- 5 Paupers and their Experience of a London Workhouse: St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1725–1824
- 6 ‘A Veritable Palace for the Hard-Working Labourer?’ Space, Material Culture and Inmate Experience in London's Rowton Houses, 1892–1918
- 7 ‘The Place was a Home from Home’: Identity and Belonging in the English Cottage Home for Convalescing Psychiatric Patients, 1910–1939
- 8 ‘The Father and Mother of the Place’: Inhabiting London's Public Libraries, 1885–1940
- 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
- 10 Halls of Residence at Britain's Civic Universities, 1870–1970
- Notes
- Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1 Viewing the Early Twentieth-Century Institutional Interior through the Pages of Living London
- 2 ‘French Beef was Better than Hampstead Beef’: Taste, Treatment and Pauperism in a London Smallpox Hospital, 1871
- 3 From Asylum to Mental Hospital: Gender, Space and the Patient Experience in London County Council Asylums, 1890–1910
- 4 Refuge or Prison? Girls' Experiences of a Home for the ‘Mentally Defective’ in Scotland, 1906–1948
- 5 Paupers and their Experience of a London Workhouse: St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1725–1824
- 6 ‘A Veritable Palace for the Hard-Working Labourer?’ Space, Material Culture and Inmate Experience in London's Rowton Houses, 1892–1918
- 7 ‘The Place was a Home from Home’: Identity and Belonging in the English Cottage Home for Convalescing Psychiatric Patients, 1910–1939
- 8 ‘The Father and Mother of the Place’: Inhabiting London's Public Libraries, 1885–1940
- 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
- 10 Halls of Residence at Britain's Civic Universities, 1870–1970
- Notes
- Index
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- Residential Institutions in Britain, 1725–1970Inmates and Environments, pp. 167 - 212Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014