Residential Institutions in Britain, 1725–1970

Jane Hamlett, Lesley Hoskins, Rebecca Preston

'the authors have advanced our understanding of the social and cultural worlds of those who inhabited such buildings, as well as demonstrating the merit in the synthesis of material culture and spatial analysis.' Journal of Historical Geography

• 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;