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OverviewThe essays in this collection explore both organizational intentions and inhabitants' experiences in a diverse range of British residential institutions during a period when such provision was dramatically increasing. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jane Hamlett , Lesley Hoskins , Rebecca PrestonPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd Volume: 27 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.498kg ISBN: 9781848933668ISBN 10: 1848933665 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 01 June 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction, 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;Reviews'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 Author InformationJane Hamlett, Lesley Hoskins, Rebecca Preston Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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