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Broadmoor Revealed

Mark Stevens
Broadmoor Revealed Book PDF

Author : Mark Stevens
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781783462360

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A fascinating introduction to the history of Broadmoor: Kate Summerscale, author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.On 27 May 1863, three coaches pulled up at the gates of a new asylum, built amongst the tall, dense pines of Windsor Forest. Broadmoors first patients had arrived.In Broadmoor Revealed, Mark Stevens writes about what life was like for the criminally insane, over one hundred years ago. From fresh research into the Broadmoor archives, Mark has uncovered the lost lives of patients whose mental illnesses led them to become involved in crime.Discover the five women who went on to become mothers in Broadmoor, giving birth to new life when three of them had previously taken it. Find out how several Victorian immigrants ended their hopeful journeys to England in madness and disaster. And follow the numerous escapes, actual and attempted, as the first doctors tried to assert control over the residents.As well as bringing the lives of forgotten patients to light, this thrilling book reveals new perspectives on some of the hospital's most famous Victorian residents: Edward Oxford, the bar boy who shot at Queen Victoria. Richard Dadd, the brilliant artist and murderer of his own father. William Chester Minor, veteran of the American Civil War who went on to play a key part in the first Oxford English Dictionary. Christiana Edmunds, The Chocolate Cream Poisoner and frustrated lover from Brighton.Broadmoor Revealed became the most popular history e-book of 2011, and now this new expanded and revised edition celebrates the Hospital's 150th anniversary.

The Case of the Chocolate Cream Killer

Kaye Jones
The Case of the Chocolate Cream Killer Book PDF

Author : Kaye Jones
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781473881402

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The true story of the seemingly respectable woman convicted of a murderous spree in Victorian-era Brighton, England. In 1871, when the news broke of a series of mysterious poisonings in the popular resort town of Brighton, shock and horror gripped the public. Even more disturbing was the revelation that the culprit was not a common criminal but a local “lady of fortune,” Christiana Edmunds. Starting in March, Christiana had sent out dozens of poisoned chocolates and sweets to Brighton’s residents. Her campaign resulted in the death of four-year-old vacationer Sidney Barker, and wounded countless others. Her arrest in August provoked such an emotional response from the local public that her trial was moved from Brighton to London’s Old Bailey. The prosecution anticipated an easy victory. Christiana had not confessed, but witnesses confirmed she had purchased strychnine and their testimonies placed her at the scenes of the crimes. She had a motive too, argued the prosecution; she was a scorned woman. Despite the defense’s best efforts, the jury took only one hour to convict her of the murder of Sidney Barker and the attempted murder of three others. This book tells the engrossing story of the crime, the trial, the darker underworld of Victorian Brighton, and the ultimate fate of Christiana Edmunds.

Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities

Anne Whitehead
Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities Book PDF

Author : Anne Whitehead
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781474400053

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In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the human individually and collectively. The thirty-six newly commissioned chapters range widely within and across disciplinary fields, always alert to the intersections between medicine, as broadly defined, and critical thinking. Each chapter offers suggestions for further reading on the issues raised, and each section concludes with an Afterword, written by a leading critic, outlining future possibilities for cutting-edge work in this area. Topics covered in this volume include: the affective body, biomedicine, blindness, breath, disability, early modern medical practice, fatness, the genome, language, madness, narrative, race, systems biology, performance, the postcolonial, public health, touch, twins, voice and wonder. Together the chapters generate a body of new knowledge and make a decisive intervention into how health, medicine and clinical care might address questions of individual, subjective and embodied experience.

The Wicked Boy

Kate Summerscale
The Wicked Boy Book PDF

Author : Kate Summerscale
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780698135000

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Winner of the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Book! From the internationally bestselling author, a deeply researched and atmospheric murder mystery of late Victorian-era London In the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age 13) and his brother Nattie (age 12) were seen spending lavishly around the docklands of East London -- for ten days in July, they ate out at coffee houses and took trips to the seaside and the theater. The boys told neighbors they had been left home alone while their mother visited family in Liverpool, but their aunt was suspicious. When she eventually forced the brothers to open the house to her, she found the badly decomposed body of their mother in a bedroom upstairs. Robert and Nattie were arrested for matricide and sent for trial at the Old Bailey. Robert confessed to having stabbed his mother, but his lawyers argued that he was insane. Nattie struck a plea and gave evidence against his brother. The court heard testimony about Robert's severe headaches, his fascination with violent criminals and his passion for 'penny dreadfuls', the pulp fiction of the day. He seemed to feel no remorse for what he had done, and neither the prosecution nor the defense could find a motive for the murder. The judge sentenced the thirteen-year-old to detention in Broadmoor, the most infamous criminal lunatic asylum in the land. Yet Broadmoor turned out to be the beginning of a new life for Robert--one that would have profoundly shocked anyone who thought they understood the Wicked Boy. At a time of great tumult and uncertainty, Robert Coombes's case crystallized contemporary anxieties about the education of the working classes, the dangers of pulp fiction, and evolving theories of criminality, childhood, and insanity. With riveting detail and rich atmosphere, Kate Summerscale recreates this terrible crime and its aftermath, uncovering an extraordinary story of man's capacity to overcome the past.

The A-Z of Victorian Crime

Neil R. A. Bell,Trevor N. Bond,Kate Clarke,M.W. Oldridge
The A Z of Victorian Crime Book PDF

Author : Neil R. A. Bell,Trevor N. Bond,Kate Clarke,M.W. Oldridge
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445647876

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The new definitive guide to Victorian crime.

Unsound Empire

Catherine L. Evans
Unsound Empire Book PDF

Author : Catherine L. Evans
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300263022

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A study of the internal tensions of British imperial rule told through murder and insanity trials Unsound Empire is a history of criminal responsibility in the nineteenth‑century British Empire told through detailed accounts of homicide cases across three continents. If a defendant in a murder trial was going to hang, he or she had to deserve it. Establishing the mental element of guilt—criminal responsibility—transformed state violence into law. And yet, to the consternation of officials in Britain and beyond, experts in new scientific fields posited that insanity was widespread and growing, and evolutionary theories suggested that wide swaths of humanity lacked the self‑control and understanding that common law demanded. Could it be fair to punish mentally ill or allegedly “uncivilized” people? Could British civilization survive if killers avoided the noose?

Ancestral Chains (DNA Part II of VIII) Battersby Bloodline

Mark D Bishop
Ancestral Chains DNA Part II of VIII Battersby Bloodline Book PDF

Author : Mark D Bishop
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781326991999

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Following on from Ancestral Chains DNA Part I, this work takes the reader a step further along the intrigue of the Family Tree. Viewing Victorian life through the mind-set of great-grandmother, Kate, the stage is set in a posh Georgian terrace in Lewes that serves as the Sussex Probate Office. Money matters are inevitable, but madness and attempted murder play out the scenes of life, as a large family adapt to the sudden incarceration of their father. Clockmakers, the Tolkiens and the creator of Lorna Doone in Teddington, all play their roles in the Battersby family saga. There is mischief and innuendo too, as when the early 19th century grocer from Isleworth is buried with 2 of his 3 wives; the headstone even today forming a paving stone in the church path, regularly walked over by worshippers. A search & locate mission for a great uncle lost in the Battlefield at Passchendaele in 1917 is launched; love was not lost on his finance though because his elder brother took on the cause.

Disorder Contained

Catherine Cox,Hilary Marland
Disorder Contained Book PDF

Author : Catherine Cox,Hilary Marland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108834551

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The first historical study to offer an in-depth exploration of the complex relationship between the prison and mental breakdown.

Spiritualism, Mesmerism and the Occult, 1800–1920 Vol 1

Shane McCorristine
Spiritualism Mesmerism and the Occult 1800 1920 Vol 1 Book PDF

Author : Shane McCorristine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1950 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000561449

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This edition provides an insight into the dark areas between Victorian science, medicine and religion. The rare reset source material in this collection is organized thematically and spans the period from initial mesmeric experiments at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the decline of the Society for Psychical Research in the 1920s.

Life in the Victorian Asylum

Mark Stevens
Life in the Victorian Asylum Book PDF

Author : Mark Stevens
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473842380

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Life in the Victorian Asylum reconstructs the lost world of the nineteenth century public asylums. This fresh take on the history of mental health reveals why county asylums were built, the sort of people they housed and the treatments they received, as well as the enduring legacy of these remarkable institutions.Mark Stevens, the best-selling author of Broadmoor Revealed, is a professional archivist and expert on asylum records. In this book, he delves into Victorian mental health archives to recreate the experience of entering an asylum and being treated there, perhaps for a lifetime. Praise for Broadmoor Revealed'Superb,' Family Tree magazine'Detailed and thoughtful,' Times Literary Supplement'Paints a fascinating picture,' Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine

Coming Home to New Orleans

Karl F. Seidman
Coming Home to New Orleans Book PDF

Author : Karl F. Seidman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199323708

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Coming Home to New Orleans Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Coming Home to New Orleans documents grassroots rebuilding efforts in New Orleans neighborhoods after hurricane Katrina, and draws lessons on their contribution to the post-disaster recovery of cities. The book begins with two chapters that address Katrina's impact and the planning and public sector recovery policies that set the context for neighborhood recovery. Rebuilding narratives for six New Orleans neighborhoods are then presented and analyzed. In the heavily flooded Broadmoor and Village de L'Est neighborhoods, residents coalesced around communitywide initiatives, one through a neighborhood association and the second under church leadership, to help homeowners return and restore housing, get key public facilities and businesses rebuilt and create new community-based organizations and civic capacity. A comparison of four adjacent neighborhoods in the center of the city show how differing socioeconomic conditions, geography, government policies and neighborhood capacity created varied recovery trajectories. The concluding chapter argues that grassroots and neighborhood scale initiatives can make important contributions to city recovery in four areas: repopulation, restoring "complete neighborhoods" with key services and amenities, rebuilding parts of the small business economy and enhancing recovery capacity. It also calls for more balanced investments and policies to rebuild rental and owner-occupied housing and more deliberate collaboration with community-based organizations to undertake and implement recovery plans, and proposes changes to federal disaster recovery policies and programs to leverage the contribution of grassroots rebuilding and more support for city recovery.

Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England

Anna Shepherd
Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth Century England Book PDF

Author : Anna Shepherd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317319061

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The nineteenth century brought an increased awareness of mental disorder, epitomized in the Asylum Acts of 1808 and 1845. Shepherd looks at two very different institutions to provide a nuanced account of the nineteenth-century mental health system.

Experiments in Life-Writing

Lucia Boldrini,Julia Novak
Experiments in Life Writing Book PDF

Author : Lucia Boldrini,Julia Novak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319554143

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Experiments in Life-Writing Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This volume examines innovative intersections of life-writing and experimental fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together scholars and practicing biographers from several disciplines (Modern Languages, English and Comparative Literature, Creative Writing). It covers a broad range of biographical, autobiographical, and hybrid practices in a variety of national literatures, among them many recent works: texts that test the ground between fact and fiction, that are marked by impressionist, self-reflexive and intermedial methods, by their recourse to myth, folklore, poetry, or drama as they tell a historical character’s story. Between them, the essays shed light on the broad range of auto/biographical experimentation in modern Europe and will appeal to readers with an interest in the history and politics of form in life-writing: in the ways in which departures from traditional generic paradigms are intricately linked with specific views of subjectivity, with questions of personal, communal, and national identity. The Introduction of this book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.

Kill the Queen!

Barrie Charles
Kill the Queen Book PDF

Author : Barrie Charles
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445612676

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An account of the eight assassination attempts on the life of Queen Victoria.

At Home in the Institution

J. Hamlett
At Home in the Institution Book PDF

Author : J. Hamlett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137322395

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At Home in the Institution examines space and material culture in asylums, lodging houses and schools in Victorian and Edwardian England, and explores the powerful influence of domesticity on all three institutional types.