Award-winning author, Professor Paul Crawford draws on his research into lunatic asylums in his latest novel, The Wonders of ...

The city's asylum was the first to ban restraints.

In the mid- to late 1800s, insane asylums served ... sentenced to languish in asylums? Their stories also serve to highlight the chauvinism of early psychiatry, which often punished women for ...

Crichton Hall was used in the Victorian era as an asylum for the mentally ill before it was taken over by the NHS - now it is ...

Dyfed Powys Police says increased social media interest has led to a rise in people going to the the Mid Wales Hospital, which closed in 1999.

Peat Island was established as an asylum for “inebriates” in 1911 before it was reopened as a psychiatric hospital, just 50km north of Sydney. If the walls could talk they would tell of the ...

Award-winning author, Professor Paul Crawford, brings his mental health research, not least on the history of asylums, to ...