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John Brydall, Non compos mentis: or, the law relating to natural fools, mad-folks, and lunatick persons, 1700 | John Brydall, Non compos mentis: or, the law relating to natural fools, mad-folks, and lunatick persons, 1700 | ||
Richard Burn, The History of the Poor Laws, 1764 | Richard Burn, The History of the Poor Laws, 1764 | ||
Thomas Bowen, An historical account of the origin, progress, and present state of Bethlem Hospital, 1783 | Thomas Bowen, An historical account of the origin, progress, and present state of Bethlem Hospital, 1783 | ||
Dr William Perfect, Select cases in the different species of insanity, lunacy, or madness, 1787 | Dr William Perfect, Select cases in the different species of insanity, lunacy, or madness, 1787 | ||
Report of the Select Committee into the state of criminal and pauper lunatics, 1807 (external link) | Report of the Select Committee into the state of criminal and pauper lunatics, 1807 (external link) | ||
Anthony Highmore, A treatise on the law of idiocy and lunacy, 1807 | Anthony Highmore, A treatise on the law of idiocy and lunacy, 1807 | ||
George Dale Collinson, A Treatise on the Law Concerning Idiots, Lunatics and Other Persons Non Compotes Mentis, Volume 1, 1812 | George Dale Collinson, A Treatise on the Law Concerning Idiots, Lunatics and Other Persons Non Compotes Mentis, Volume 1, 1812 | ||
George Dale Collinson, A Treatise on the Law Concerning Idiots, Lunatics and Other Persons Non Compotes Mentis, Volume 2, 1812 | George Dale Collinson, A Treatise on the Law Concerning Idiots, Lunatics and Other Persons Non Compotes Mentis, Volume 2, 1812 | ||
First report on the Committee on Madhouses, House of Commons, 1815 | First report on the Committee on Madhouses, House of Commons, 1815 | ||
Jonathan Gray, A history of the York Lunatic Asylum, 1815 | Jonathan Gray, A history of the York Lunatic Asylum, 1815 | ||
First report from the Select Committee for the better regulation of Madhouses, April 1816 | First report from the Select Committee for the better regulation of Madhouses, April 1816 | ||
Second report from the Select Committee for the better regulation of Madhouses, May 1816 | Second report from the Select Committee for the better regulation of Madhouses, May 1816 | ||
Third report from the Select Committee for the better regulation of Madhouses (Scotland), June 1816 | Third report from the Select Committee for the better regulation of Madhouses (Scotland), June 1816 | ||
John Haslam, Benjamin Ridge, John Conolly, Sketches in Bedlam, 1823 | John Haslam, Benjamin Ridge, John Conolly, Sketches in Bedlam, 1823 | ||
John Mitford, A description of the crimes and horrors in the interior of Warburton's private mad-house at Hoxton, 1825 | John Mitford, A description of the crimes and horrors in the interior of Warburton's private mad-house at Hoxton, 1825 | ||
Report from Select Committee on Pauper Lunatics in the County of Middlesex and on Lunatic Asylums, 1827 | Report from Select Committee on Pauper Lunatics in the County of Middlesex and on Lunatic Asylums, 1827 | ||
John Conolly, An inquiry concerning the indications of insanity, 1830 | John Conolly, An inquiry concerning the indications of insanity, 1830 | ||
Leonard Shelford, A Practical Treatise on the Law Concerning Lunatics, Idiots, and Persons of Unsound Mind, 1833 | Leonard Shelford, A Practical Treatise on the Law Concerning Lunatics, Idiots, and Persons of Unsound Mind, 1833 | ||
J G Millingen, Aphorisms on the Treatment and Management of the Insane, 1840 | J G Millingen, Aphorisms on the Treatment and Management of the Insane, 1840 | ||
Richard Paternoster, The madhouse system, 1841 | Richard Paternoster, The madhouse system, 1841 | ||
Edward De Vitre, Observations on the necessity of an extended legislative protection to persons of unsound mind, 1843 | Edward De Vitre, Observations on the necessity of an extended legislative protection to persons of unsound mind, 1843 | ||
Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor, 1844 | Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor, 1844 | ||
Supplemental report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy relative to the general condition of the insane in Wales, 1844 | Supplemental report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy relative to the general condition of the insane in Wales, 1844 | ||
William Golden Lumley, The New Lunacy Acts, Shaw & Sons, 1845 (external link) | William Golden Lumley, The New Lunacy Acts, Shaw & Sons, 1845 (external link) | ||
Further report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor, 1847 | Further report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor, 1847 | ||
Leonard Shelford, A Practical Treatise on the Law Concerning Lunatics, Idiots, and Persons of Unsound Mind, 2nd edition, 1847 | Leonard Shelford, A Practical Treatise on the Law Concerning Lunatics, Idiots, and Persons of Unsound Mind, 2nd edition, 1847 | ||
Lunatic Asylums Act 1853 | Lunatic Asylums Act 1853 | ||
An Act to amend the Lunatic Asylums Act, 1853, and the Acts passed in the Ninth and Seventeenth Years of Her Majesty, for the Regulation of the Care and Treatment of Lunatics, 1855 | An Act to amend the Lunatic Asylums Act, 1853, and the Acts passed in the Ninth and Seventeenth Years of Her Majesty, for the Regulation of the Care and Treatment of Lunatics, 1855 | ||
Robert Gardiner Hill, A concise history of the entire abolition of mechanical restraint, 1857 | Robert Gardiner Hill, A concise history of the entire abolition of mechanical restraint, 1857 | ||
Charles Palmer Phillips, The law concerning lunatics, idiots, & persons of unsound mind, 1858 | Charles Palmer Phillips, The law concerning lunatics, idiots, & persons of unsound mind, 1858 | ||
John Arlidge, On the state of lunacy and the legal provision for the insane, 1859 | John Arlidge, On the state of lunacy and the legal provision for the insane, 1859 | ||
Lunacy Acts Amendment Act 1862 | Lunacy Acts Amendment Act 1862 | ||
William Gilbert, Shirley Hall Asylum - Or, the Memoirs of a Monomaniac, 1863 | William Gilbert, Shirley Hall Asylum - Or, the Memoirs of a Monomaniac, 1863 | ||
Danby P Fry, The Lunacy Acts, 1864 | Danby P Fry, The Lunacy Acts, 1864 | ||
John Lambert, Vagrancy laws and vagrants, 1868 | John Lambert, Vagrancy laws and vagrants, 1868 | ||
Robert Gardiner Hill, Lunacy: its past and its present, 1870 | Robert Gardiner Hill, Lunacy: its past and its present, 1870 | ||
James Sabben and J. H. Balfour Browne, Handbook of law and lunacy, 1872 | James Sabben and J. H. Balfour Browne, Handbook of law and lunacy, 1872 | ||
Lyttleton Forbes Winslow, Manual of lunacy, 1874 | Lyttleton Forbes Winslow, Manual of lunacy, 1874 | ||
John Charles Bucknill and Daniel Hack Tuke, A manual of psychological medicine, 1874 | John Charles Bucknill and Daniel Hack Tuke, A manual of psychological medicine, 1874 | ||
Brief history of the Warneford Lunatic Asylum, 1875 | Brief history of the Warneford Lunatic Asylum, 1875 | ||
Lyttleton Forbes Winslow, Handbook for attendants on the insane, 1877 | Lyttleton Forbes Winslow, Handbook for attendants on the insane, 1877 | ||
Joseph Elmer, The practice in Lunacy Under Commissions and Inquisitions, 6th edition, Stevens and Sons, 1877 | Joseph Elmer, The practice in Lunacy Under Commissions and Inquisitions, 6th edition, Stevens and Sons, 1877 | ||
Danby P Fry, The Lunacy Acts, 2nd edition 1877 | Danby P Fry, The Lunacy Acts, 2nd edition 1877 | ||
John Millar, Hints on Insanity, 1877 | John Millar, Hints on Insanity, 1877 | ||
Lunacy in its relations to the state: a commentary on the evidence taken by the Committee of the House of Commons on Lunacy Law in the session of 1877, 1878 | Lunacy in its relations to the state: a commentary on the evidence taken by the Committee of the House of Commons on Lunacy Law in the session of 1877, 1878 | ||
William Wood, Insanity and the lunacy law, 1879 | William Wood, Insanity and the lunacy law, 1879 | ||
Herman Merivale, My experiences in a lunatic asylum, 1879 | Herman Merivale, My experiences in a lunatic asylum, 1879 | ||
Sydney E Williams, The law and practice relating to petitions in Chancery and Lunacy, 1880 | Sydney E Williams, The law and practice relating to petitions in Chancery and Lunacy, 1880 | ||
Sir John Bucknill, The care of the insane and their legal control, 1880 | Sir John Bucknill, The care of the insane and their legal control, 1880 | ||
Daniel Hack Tuke, Chapters on the history of the insane in the British Isles, 1882 | Daniel Hack Tuke, Chapters on the history of the insane in the British Isles, 1882 | ||
Lionel Weatherly, The care and treatment of the insane in private dwellings, 1882 | Lionel Weatherly, The care and treatment of the insane in private dwellings, 1882 | ||
James Greenwood, A concise handbook of the laws relating to medical men, 1882 | James Greenwood, A concise handbook of the laws relating to medical men, 1882 | ||
Louisa Lowe, The bastilles of England or The lunacy laws at work, 1883 | Louisa Lowe, The bastilles of England or The lunacy laws at work, 1883 | ||
Bailliere Tindall and Cox, Handbook for the instruction of Attendants on the insane, 1885 | Bailliere Tindall and Cox, Handbook for the instruction of Attendants on the insane, 1885 | ||
Lunacy Act 1890 | Lunacy Act 1890 | ||
George Chambers, Fry's Lunacy Laws, 3rd edition, 1890 | George Chambers, Fry's Lunacy Laws, 3rd edition, 1890 | ||
Francis Walmsley, Outlines of Insanity, 1892 | Francis Walmsley, Outlines of Insanity, 1892 | ||
Edwin Brand, Mad authors; or, Daft Dan's diary. Marvellous revelations respecting madhouse management, 4th edition, 1893 | Edwin Brand, Mad authors; or, Daft Dan's diary. Marvellous revelations respecting madhouse management, 4th edition, 1893 | ||
Charles Mercier, Lunatic Asylums: Their Organisation and Management, 1894 | Charles Mercier, Lunatic Asylums: Their Organisation and Management, 1894 | ||
Charles Arthur Mercier, Lunacy law for medical men, 1894 | Charles Arthur Mercier, Lunacy law for medical men, 1894 | ||
Archbold's Lunacy, 4th edition, Shaw and Sons, 1895 | Archbold's Lunacy, 4th edition, Shaw and Sons, 1895 | ||
A. Wood Renton, The Law of and Practice in Lunacy, W Green & Sons, 1897 (external link) | A. Wood Renton, The Law of and Practice in Lunacy, W Green & Sons, 1897 (external link) | ||
Report of the Royal Commission on the blind, the deaf and dumb, 1899 | Report of the Royal Commission on the blind, the deaf and dumb, 1899 | ||
Heywood & Massey's lunacy practice, Stevens & Son, 1st edition, 1900 | Heywood & Massey's lunacy practice, Stevens & Son, 1st edition, 1900 | ||
William Gattie, Lunacy practice: A Practical Guide for the Certification and Detention of Persons of Unsound Mind, 1903 | William Gattie, Lunacy practice: A Practical Guide for the Certification and Detention of Persons of Unsound Mind, 1903 | ||
Heywood & Massey's Lunacy Practice, 3rd edition, 1907 | Heywood & Massey's Lunacy Practice, 3rd edition, 1907 | ||
Report of the Royal Commission on the care and control of the feebleminded, Vol. VIII, 1908 | Report of the Royal Commission on the care and control of the feebleminded, Vol. VIII, 1908 | ||
Lyttleton Forbes Winslow, Recollections of forty years, 1910 | Lyttleton Forbes Winslow, Recollections of forty years, 1910 | ||
Marcia Hamilcar, Legally dead: experiences during seventeen weeks' detention in a private asylum, 1910 | Marcia Hamilcar, Legally dead: experiences during seventeen weeks' detention in a private asylum, 1910 | ||
Herbert Davey, The law relating to the mentally defective, 2nd edition, 1913 | Herbert Davey, The law relating to the mentally defective, 2nd edition, 1913 | ||
Mental Deficiency Act 1913 | Mental Deficiency Act 1913 | ||
John and Samuel Wormald, A guide to the Mental Deficiency Act 1913 | John and Samuel Wormald, A guide to the Mental Deficiency Act 1913 | ||
Martin Barr and E.F. Maloney, Types of Mental Defectives, Blakiston's Son & Co, 1920 | Martin Barr and E.F. Maloney, Types of Mental Defectives, Blakiston's Son & Co, 1920 | ||
Montagu Lomax, The experiences of an asylum doctor; with suggestions for asylum and lunacy law reform, 1921 | Montagu Lomax, The experiences of an asylum doctor; with suggestions for asylum and lunacy law reform, 1921 | ||
Report of the Committee on Administration of Public Mental Hospitals, Ministry of Health, 1922 | Report of the Committee on Administration of Public Mental Hospitals, Ministry of Health, 1922 | ||
Rachel Grant-Smith, Experiences of an asylum patient, 1922 | Rachel Grant-Smith, Experiences of an asylum patient, 1922 | ||
Lunacy and Mental Treatment Rules 1930 | Lunacy and Mental Treatment Rules 1930 | ||
The Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts, 1890 to 1930 and the Mental Treatment Rules, 1930. Shaw & Sons, 1931 | The Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts, 1890 to 1930 and the Mental Treatment Rules, 1930. Shaw & Sons, 1931 | ||
Mental Health Act 1959 | Mental Health Act 1959 | ||
Dale Peterson (editor), A Mad people's history of madness, 1982 (external link) | Dale Peterson (editor), A Mad people's history of madness, 1982 (external link) | ||
David Wright and Anne Digby (eds), From idiocy to mental deficiency, Routledge, 1996 | David Wright and Anne Digby (eds), From idiocy to mental deficiency, Routledge, 1996 | ||
==Articles== | |||
Articles | |||
D. J. Mellett, Bureaucracy and mental illness: The Commissioners in Lunacy 1845-90, Medical History, 1981 | D. J. Mellett, Bureaucracy and mental illness: The Commissioners in Lunacy 1845-90, Medical History, 1981 | ||
Nicholas Hervey, Advocacy or folly: the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society, 1845-1863, Medical History, 1986 | Nicholas Hervey, Advocacy or folly: the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society, 1845-1863, Medical History, 1986 | ||
Charlotte MacKenzie, A family asylum: a history of the private madhouse at Ticehurst in Sussex, 1792-1917, University of London Ph.D. thesis, 1987 | Charlotte MacKenzie, A family asylum: a history of the private madhouse at Ticehurst in Sussex, 1792-1917, University of London Ph.D. thesis, 1987 | ||
David Wright, Getting Out of the Asylum: Understanding the Confinement of the Insane in the Nineteenth Century, The Society for the Social History of Medicine, 1997 | David Wright, Getting Out of the Asylum: Understanding the Confinement of the Insane in the Nineteenth Century, The Society for the Social History of Medicine, 1997 | ||
David Wright, The certification of insanity in nineteenth-century England and Wales, History of Psychiatry, 1998 | David Wright, The certification of insanity in nineteenth-century England and Wales, History of Psychiatry, 1998 | ||
Professor Gail Hornstein, Bibliography of First Person Narratives of Madness, 4th edition, 2008 | Professor Gail Hornstein, Bibliography of First Person Narratives of Madness, 4th edition, 2008 | ||
Leonard Smith. A gentleman's mad-doctor in Georgian England: Edward Long Fox and Brislington House. History of Psychiatry, 2008 | Leonard Smith. A gentleman's mad-doctor in Georgian England: Edward Long Fox and Brislington House. History of Psychiatry, 2008 | ||
Chantal Stebbings, Protecting the property of the mentally ill: the judicial solution in nineteenth century lunacy law, Cambridge Law Journal, 2012 | Chantal Stebbings, Protecting the property of the mentally ill: the judicial solution in nineteenth century lunacy law, Cambridge Law Journal, 2012 | ||
Sarah Wise, A tale of whistle-blowing and the English lunacy laws, The Lancet, 2014 | Sarah Wise, A tale of whistle-blowing and the English lunacy laws, The Lancet, 2014 | ||
Leonard Smith, Lunatic Asylum in the Workhouse: St Peter's Hospital, Bristol, 1698-1861, Medical History, 2017 | Leonard Smith, Lunatic Asylum in the Workhouse: St Peter's Hospital, Bristol, 1698-1861, Medical History, 2017 | ||
Dan Degerman, 'Am I mad?': the Windham case and Victorian resistance to psychiatry, History of Psychiatry, 2019 | Dan Degerman, 'Am I mad?': the Windham case and Victorian resistance to psychiatry, History of Psychiatry, 2019 | ||
Managing mental incapacity in the 20th century: A history of the Court of Protection of England & Wales, Janet Weston, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Volume 68, January-February 2020 | Managing mental incapacity in the 20th century: A history of the Court of Protection of England & Wales, Janet Weston, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Volume 68, January-February 2020 | ||
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Latest revision as of 12:18, 19 November 2024
When Dave Sheppard retired in 2020 he kindly gave me permission to publish the contents of his website (originally named after his firm, "Dave Sheppard Associates", then called "MHAandMCA"). It is a treasure trove. I've not had time to prepare everything for publication but have put the main headings online: let me know if you would like a copy of anything listed.
John Brydall, Non compos mentis: or, the law relating to natural fools, mad-folks, and lunatick persons, 1700
Richard Burn, The History of the Poor Laws, 1764
Thomas Bowen, An historical account of the origin, progress, and present state of Bethlem Hospital, 1783
Dr William Perfect, Select cases in the different species of insanity, lunacy, or madness, 1787
Report of the Select Committee into the state of criminal and pauper lunatics, 1807 (external link)
Anthony Highmore, A treatise on the law of idiocy and lunacy, 1807
George Dale Collinson, A Treatise on the Law Concerning Idiots, Lunatics and Other Persons Non Compotes Mentis, Volume 1, 1812
George Dale Collinson, A Treatise on the Law Concerning Idiots, Lunatics and Other Persons Non Compotes Mentis, Volume 2, 1812
First report on the Committee on Madhouses, House of Commons, 1815
Jonathan Gray, A history of the York Lunatic Asylum, 1815
First report from the Select Committee for the better regulation of Madhouses, April 1816
Second report from the Select Committee for the better regulation of Madhouses, May 1816
Third report from the Select Committee for the better regulation of Madhouses (Scotland), June 1816
John Haslam, Benjamin Ridge, John Conolly, Sketches in Bedlam, 1823
John Mitford, A description of the crimes and horrors in the interior of Warburton's private mad-house at Hoxton, 1825
Report from Select Committee on Pauper Lunatics in the County of Middlesex and on Lunatic Asylums, 1827
John Conolly, An inquiry concerning the indications of insanity, 1830
Leonard Shelford, A Practical Treatise on the Law Concerning Lunatics, Idiots, and Persons of Unsound Mind, 1833
J G Millingen, Aphorisms on the Treatment and Management of the Insane, 1840
Richard Paternoster, The madhouse system, 1841
Edward De Vitre, Observations on the necessity of an extended legislative protection to persons of unsound mind, 1843
Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor, 1844
Supplemental report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy relative to the general condition of the insane in Wales, 1844
William Golden Lumley, The New Lunacy Acts, Shaw & Sons, 1845 (external link)
Further report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor, 1847
Leonard Shelford, A Practical Treatise on the Law Concerning Lunatics, Idiots, and Persons of Unsound Mind, 2nd edition, 1847
Lunatic Asylums Act 1853
An Act to amend the Lunatic Asylums Act, 1853, and the Acts passed in the Ninth and Seventeenth Years of Her Majesty, for the Regulation of the Care and Treatment of Lunatics, 1855
Robert Gardiner Hill, A concise history of the entire abolition of mechanical restraint, 1857
Charles Palmer Phillips, The law concerning lunatics, idiots, & persons of unsound mind, 1858
John Arlidge, On the state of lunacy and the legal provision for the insane, 1859
Lunacy Acts Amendment Act 1862
William Gilbert, Shirley Hall Asylum - Or, the Memoirs of a Monomaniac, 1863
Danby P Fry, The Lunacy Acts, 1864
John Lambert, Vagrancy laws and vagrants, 1868
Robert Gardiner Hill, Lunacy: its past and its present, 1870
James Sabben and J. H. Balfour Browne, Handbook of law and lunacy, 1872
Lyttleton Forbes Winslow, Manual of lunacy, 1874
John Charles Bucknill and Daniel Hack Tuke, A manual of psychological medicine, 1874
Brief history of the Warneford Lunatic Asylum, 1875
Lyttleton Forbes Winslow, Handbook for attendants on the insane, 1877
Joseph Elmer, The practice in Lunacy Under Commissions and Inquisitions, 6th edition, Stevens and Sons, 1877
Danby P Fry, The Lunacy Acts, 2nd edition 1877
John Millar, Hints on Insanity, 1877
Lunacy in its relations to the state: a commentary on the evidence taken by the Committee of the House of Commons on Lunacy Law in the session of 1877, 1878
William Wood, Insanity and the lunacy law, 1879
Herman Merivale, My experiences in a lunatic asylum, 1879
Sydney E Williams, The law and practice relating to petitions in Chancery and Lunacy, 1880
Sir John Bucknill, The care of the insane and their legal control, 1880
Daniel Hack Tuke, Chapters on the history of the insane in the British Isles, 1882
Lionel Weatherly, The care and treatment of the insane in private dwellings, 1882
James Greenwood, A concise handbook of the laws relating to medical men, 1882
Louisa Lowe, The bastilles of England or The lunacy laws at work, 1883
Bailliere Tindall and Cox, Handbook for the instruction of Attendants on the insane, 1885
Lunacy Act 1890
George Chambers, Fry's Lunacy Laws, 3rd edition, 1890
Francis Walmsley, Outlines of Insanity, 1892
Edwin Brand, Mad authors; or, Daft Dan's diary. Marvellous revelations respecting madhouse management, 4th edition, 1893
Charles Mercier, Lunatic Asylums: Their Organisation and Management, 1894
Charles Arthur Mercier, Lunacy law for medical men, 1894
Archbold's Lunacy, 4th edition, Shaw and Sons, 1895
A. Wood Renton, The Law of and Practice in Lunacy, W Green & Sons, 1897 (external link)
Report of the Royal Commission on the blind, the deaf and dumb, 1899
Heywood & Massey's lunacy practice, Stevens & Son, 1st edition, 1900
William Gattie, Lunacy practice: A Practical Guide for the Certification and Detention of Persons of Unsound Mind, 1903
Heywood & Massey's Lunacy Practice, 3rd edition, 1907
Report of the Royal Commission on the care and control of the feebleminded, Vol. VIII, 1908
Lyttleton Forbes Winslow, Recollections of forty years, 1910
Marcia Hamilcar, Legally dead: experiences during seventeen weeks' detention in a private asylum, 1910
Herbert Davey, The law relating to the mentally defective, 2nd edition, 1913
Mental Deficiency Act 1913
John and Samuel Wormald, A guide to the Mental Deficiency Act 1913
Martin Barr and E.F. Maloney, Types of Mental Defectives, Blakiston's Son & Co, 1920
Montagu Lomax, The experiences of an asylum doctor; with suggestions for asylum and lunacy law reform, 1921
Report of the Committee on Administration of Public Mental Hospitals, Ministry of Health, 1922
Rachel Grant-Smith, Experiences of an asylum patient, 1922
Lunacy and Mental Treatment Rules 1930
The Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts, 1890 to 1930 and the Mental Treatment Rules, 1930. Shaw & Sons, 1931
Mental Health Act 1959
Dale Peterson (editor), A Mad people's history of madness, 1982 (external link)
David Wright and Anne Digby (eds), From idiocy to mental deficiency, Routledge, 1996
Articles
D. J. Mellett, Bureaucracy and mental illness: The Commissioners in Lunacy 1845-90, Medical History, 1981
Nicholas Hervey, Advocacy or folly: the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society, 1845-1863, Medical History, 1986
Charlotte MacKenzie, A family asylum: a history of the private madhouse at Ticehurst in Sussex, 1792-1917, University of London Ph.D. thesis, 1987
David Wright, Getting Out of the Asylum: Understanding the Confinement of the Insane in the Nineteenth Century, The Society for the Social History of Medicine, 1997
David Wright, The certification of insanity in nineteenth-century England and Wales, History of Psychiatry, 1998
Professor Gail Hornstein, Bibliography of First Person Narratives of Madness, 4th edition, 2008
Leonard Smith. A gentleman's mad-doctor in Georgian England: Edward Long Fox and Brislington House. History of Psychiatry, 2008
Chantal Stebbings, Protecting the property of the mentally ill: the judicial solution in nineteenth century lunacy law, Cambridge Law Journal, 2012
Sarah Wise, A tale of whistle-blowing and the English lunacy laws, The Lancet, 2014
Leonard Smith, Lunatic Asylum in the Workhouse: St Peter's Hospital, Bristol, 1698-1861, Medical History, 2017
Dan Degerman, 'Am I mad?': the Windham case and Victorian resistance to psychiatry, History of Psychiatry, 2019
Managing mental incapacity in the 20th century: A history of the Court of Protection of England & Wales, Janet Weston, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Volume 68, January-February 2020
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