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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-18 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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Employing the considerable archaeological and historical skills in her armory, Susan Piddock tries to lift the lid on the lunatic asylums of years gone by. Film
Buildings in Society: International Studies in the Historic Era
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Pages: 160
Authors: Liz Thomas
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This book presents a series of papers reflecting the latest approaches to the study of buildings from the historic period. This volume does not examine building
An Archaeology of Institutional Confinement
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Authors: Peter Davies
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-29 - Publisher: Sydney University Press

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The archaeological assemblage from the Hyde Park Barracks is one of the largest, most comprehensive and best preserved collections of artefacts from any 19th-ce
An archaeology of lunacy
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Authors: Katherine Fennelly
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An archaeology of lunacy is a materially focused exploration of the first wave of public asylum building in Britain and Ireland, which took place during the lat
The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology
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Authors: Eleanor Casella
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Representing the first substantial English-language text on Industrial Archaeology in a decade, this handbook comes at a time when the global impact of industri