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Bricks, brick-making, and the economies of the Old Poor Law: Staffordshire 1750-1834 (2024)
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Tomkins, A. (in press). Bricks, brick-making, and the economies of the Old Poor Law: Staffordshire 1750-1834. Midland History, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2024.2303645

This article considers the place of brickmaking as an activity supported or promoted by parish poor relief. Parochial work schemes were typically founded on agricultural work, textile manufacturing, or unskilled tasks like oakum picking, yet the man... Read More about Bricks, brick-making, and the economies of the Old Poor Law: Staffordshire 1750-1834.

Male suicide and masculinity in 19th-century Britain: stories of self-destruction: by Lyndsay Galpin, 2022, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 193pp, £85.00 (hardback), £76.50 (ebook), ISBN: 9781350264892 (2023)
Journal Article
Tomkins, A. (2023). Male suicide and masculinity in 19th-century Britain: stories of self-destruction: by Lyndsay Galpin, 2022, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 193pp, £85.00 (hardback), £76.50 (ebook), ISBN: 9781350264892. Women's History Review, 32(3), 435-436. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2022.2160104

Poor-law institutions through working-class eyes: autobiography, emotion, and family context 1834-1914 (2021)
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Tomkins. (2021). Poor-law institutions through working-class eyes: autobiography, emotion, and family context 1834-1914. Albion, 285-309. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2020.242

Histories of the English workhouse and its satellite institutions have concentrated on legal change, institutional administration, and moments of shock or scandal, generally without considering the place of these institutions, established through the... Read More about Poor-law institutions through working-class eyes: autobiography, emotion, and family context 1834-1914.

Sexual abuse by superintending staff in the nineteenth-century lunatic asylum: medical practice, complaint, and risk (2021)
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Tomkins. (2021). Sexual abuse by superintending staff in the nineteenth-century lunatic asylum: medical practice, complaint, and risk. History of Psychiatry, 69-84. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X20967299

The nineteenth century witnessed a great shift in how insanity was regarded and treated. Well documented is the emergence of psychiatry as a distinct area of medicine and the role played by county lunatic asylums. What remains unclear are the relatio... Read More about Sexual abuse by superintending staff in the nineteenth-century lunatic asylum: medical practice, complaint, and risk.

Professional Migration, Occupational Challenge, and Mental Health: Medical Practitioners in New Zealand, 1850s-1890s (2020)
Journal Article
Tomkins. (2020). Professional Migration, Occupational Challenge, and Mental Health: Medical Practitioners in New Zealand, 1850s-1890s. Social History of Medicine, 874-894. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaa064

Australasian colonies were promoted as ‘lands of opportunity’ for British medical practitioners of the Victorian period, but once there doctors often found that any problems they faced had travelled with them. Furthermore, the act of migration could... Read More about Professional Migration, Occupational Challenge, and Mental Health: Medical Practitioners in New Zealand, 1850s-1890s.