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Tracing your ancestors in lunatic asylums : a guide for family historians / Michelle Higgs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Higgs, Michelle, author.
- Series:
- Tracing Your Ancestors Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mentally ill--Great Britain.
- Mentally ill.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 196 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England ; Philadelphia : Pen & Sword Family History, [2019]
- Summary:
- A concise handbook for genealogical research into patients of British mental institutions from the 18th to the early 20th centuries.An expert in British Victorian history, Michelle Higgs helps readers uncover information about relatives whose lives are too often forgotten.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Documents and Illustrations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Care of the Mentally Ill Before 1800
- Chapter 2 Lunatic Asylums of the Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 3 Twentieth-Century Mental Institutions
- Chapter 4 Mental Illnesses
- Chapter 5 Inside the Asylum
- Chapter 6 The Mentally Ill in Workhouses
- Chapter 7 Criminal Lunatics
- Chapter 8 Asylums for Idiots and Imbeciles
- Chapter 9 Mental Illness in the Armed Forces
- Chapter 10 Sources
- Appendix 1 Terminology in Lunatic Asylum Records
- Appendix 2 Useful Websites
- Appendix 3 Places to Visit
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5267-4488-0
- 1-5267-4486-4
- OCLC:
- 1204142018
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