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Casebooks, photographs, and institutional intimacy | The Other Asylum...
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The Other Asylum…. Entertainment, Amusement and Mirth. Highlights of the Diary of Dr Adams. Our house, in the middle of our street…. →. April 15, 2014 · 1:30 pm. Casebooks, photographs, and institutional intimacy. These casebooks were dealt with regularly, possibly weekly or monthly, though judging by the Commissioners In Lunacy complaints that the patient documents were not very well kept at the asylum, it was not daily! The photograph and the brief notes about her quiet behaviour being ‘strange for her...
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Idiocy: Making the private public. | The Other Asylum...
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The Other Asylum…. What links Elvis’s scarves and Caterham’s petticoats? Make do and mend →. November 13, 2013 · 9:42 pm. Idiocy: Making the private public. This blog post was inspired by my debut post on my Language of Access blog. Writing the post made me think of two things visibility and language. So I have indulged myself and extended it somewhat, and went off on a bit of a tangent…. A A person without learning; an ignorant, uneducated person; a simple or ordinary person. Now archaic and rare. Leave...
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Our house, in the middle of our street…. | The Other Asylum...
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The Other Asylum…. Casebooks, photographs, and institutional intimacy. Trains, tardiness and trade →. July 22, 2014 · 12:35 pm. Our house, in the middle of our street…. Hence the lack of posts! It has been back breaking and eye-sight destroying work, not least as it would appear that many Victorian officials, from doctors, administrators, and census enumerators, flouted all of their childhood handwriting lessons. Alas the latter was a slum area of Bermondsey, but the former is still a pub. The Peckham As...
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The Other Asylum…. I am a phd student at Birkbeck researching the social and cultural history of idiocy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I am also parent to a child diagnosed with what is commonly referred to as a learning disability in educational and medical spheres, or a neurological disorder by others. Thus, I am interested in the language that surrounds mental health, illness and disability, as well as the. I also blog here : stef.languageofaccess.org. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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What links Elvis’s scarves and Caterham’s petticoats? | The Other Asylum...
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The Other Asylum…. The place of asylum. Idiocy: Making the private public. →. September 25, 2013 · 10:01 pm. What links Elvis’s scarves and Caterham’s petticoats? The nimble fingers and hard work of learning disabled people. [1]. In an earlier post I suggested that Caterham was not so isolated, and possibly like Opportunity Village, it was a place that carried, or acquired, some sense of institutional pride in the quality, and quantity, of patient work. Http:/ www.opportunityvillage.org/overview/. Decemb...
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Make do and mend | The Other Asylum...
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The Other Asylum…. Idiocy: Making the private public. Viewing Texts →. November 15, 2013 · 11:43 am. Make do and mend. At yesterday’s Modern British History Seminar, which covers the period 1815 to mid C20 and beyond (and I am still adjusting to the sense that I am a modern historian categorised alongside those who study stuff from when I was a kid! I was lucky enough to meet and chat with Dr Vivienne Richmond from Goldsmiths. Inspired by references to dress and nakedness in Katrina Navickas’s. Patients ...
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Trains, tardiness and trade | The Other Asylum...
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The Other Asylum…. Our house, in the middle of our street…. I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike. →. November 29, 2014 · 1:54 pm. Trains, tardiness and trade. Caterham Railway Station – telegraph office and goods yard c.1900 Caterham and District Local History Centre. Caterham Station staff, 1886. Caterham and District Local History Centre. The paper box at the asylum, the cheap tickets, and the laying on of special trains, along with the everyday uses of the station, illustrates a level of ...
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The Other Asylum... | An alternative look at asylums, nineteenth century mental deficiency, Victorians, and other things | Page 2
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The Other Asylum…. Newer posts →. November 13, 2013 · 9:42 pm. Idiocy: Making the private public. This blog post was inspired by my debut post on my Language of Access blog. Writing the post made me think of two things visibility and language. So I have indulged myself and extended it somewhat, and went off on a bit of a tangent…. A A person without learning; an ignorant, uneducated person; a simple or ordinary person. Now archaic and rare. Patrick McDonagh, Idiocy: A Cultural History. The nimble fingers...
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I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike. | The Other Asylum...
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The Other Asylum…. Trains, tardiness and trade. July 7, 2015 · 12:00 pm. I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike. On June 29th 1878 the Wanderers Bicycle Club, based in Lavender Hill London, came to Caterham Asylum. The club had asked for permission to use the cricket ground for their ‘annual races’. The letter explaining the days event was sent to Dr James Adam three weeks prior, on beautifully designed headed paper. I have not been able to find mention of it in previous committee minutes or a...
