Dr William Minor was one of the most prolific contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary. Unknown to many, he was also ...

Award-winning author, Professor Paul Crawford draws on his research into lunatic asylums in his latest novel, The Wonders of Doctor Bent, to explore survival from childhood trauma.

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 ...

For more than 160 years The Lawn in Lincoln was used as a psychiatric hospital. It opened in 1820 as the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum and was the first institution of its kind in the country to ban the ...

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.

Award-winning author, Professor Paul Crawford, brings his mental health research, not least on the history of asylums, to bear in his latest novel, The Wonders of Doctor Bent ...