The essays in this collection explore both organizational intentions and inhabitants' experiences in a diverse range of British residential institutions during

Institutions were intended to mould their inhabitants, and were organized in line with professional and economic constraints, public opinion, or the need to app

A pioneering study of children's social care in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, A Home From Home? presents new information and develops conce

Tracing the experiences of women who were designated insane by judicial processes from 1850 to 1900, this book considers the ideas and purposes of incarceration

In a remarkable decade of public investment in higher education, some 200 new university campuses were established worldwide between 1961 and 1970. This volume