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Residential Institutions in Britain, 1725–1970: Inmates and Environments
Author(s): Jane Hamlett (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 Jun. 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848933665
- ISBN-13: 9781848933668
Book Description
The essays in this collection explore both organizational intentions and inhabitants’ experiences in a diverse range of British residential institutions during a period when such provision was dramatically increasing.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘the authors have advanced our understanding of the social and cultural worlds of those who inhabited such buildings, as well as demonstrating the merit in the synthesis of material culture and spatial analysis.’ Journal of Historical Geography
About the Author
Jane Hamlett, Lesley Hoskins, Rebecca Preston
