Outputs (2)

Poor-law institutions through working-class eyes: autobiography, emotion, and family context 1834-1914 (2021)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.