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Digitised mental healthcare archives

Explore the historical records of a selection of UK asylums, psychiatric institutions and personnel

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Books about cooking

From high class recipes, to foods for the fat and diets for the sick. You can browse the 19th century collection and read our books online.

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A course of practical psychic instruction

Learn the art of Personal Magnetism, “that quality in man which attracts the interest, confidence, friendship and love of mankind”.

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Follow the rise and fall of the mental asylum and explore how it has shaped the complex landscape of mental health today. Reimagine the institution, informed by the experiences of the patients, doctors, artists and reformers who inhabited the asylum or created alternatives to it.