The History of Wandsworth Common


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SURREY LUNATIC ASYLUM LINKS


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— Surrey Lunatic Asylum — Links

— Surrey Lunatic Asylum — Chronology

— Surrey Lunatic Asylum — Stories

— Surrey Lunatic Asylum — Stories outline

— Mrs Boone, whose husband died at the Asylum and was buried mysteriously, 1844

— Death of Daniel Dolley / Hugh Diamond post mortem autopsy

— Arrival and departure of a balloon

— Hare and Hounds, February 1872

— Among the Wandsworth Lunatics, 1880 (a visit to view a theatrical performance, wittily described)

— Amelia Alfrey

— Ophelia

— Christiana Conder

— Hugh Welch Diamond

— Hugh Diamond's photographs of women

— [Surrey Asylum Talk Notes — May 2024]

— Notes to sort

— Good quotes to use

— Notes to self e.g. from Andrew Scull, Museums of Madness

— Summaries to sort (e.g. English Heritage, Lost Hospitals etc)

— Maps — development of site and buildings over time — why the Asylum was built here etc

— Lost Hospitals of London: Springfield [VVG]

— Ian Lodge Patch, Springfield: A Short History (1985) [downloaded as "ian-lodge-patch-springfield-a-short-history-1985-compressed.pdf""]

— ian-lodge-patch-Surrey-County-Lunatic-Asylum-BritishJnlPsychiatry-1991.pdf

— /institutions/surrey-lunatic-asylum/lodge-patch-surrey-lunatic-asylum-bjpsych-1991.html

— Dr Khaldoon Ahmed - Notes and Links

— AZEEZ-et-al-SURREY-LUNATIC-ASYLUM-overview-of-some-of-first-admissions-1865-1867-2022-apmh-aid1039.pdf

— The Mirror, 13 February 1841

— William Moseley, Architect

— Wikipedia: Bethlem Royal Hospital

— Andrew Roberts on Springfield Lunatic Asylum [downloaded as Andrew-Roberts-Surrey-Lunatic-Asylum.pdf]

— Andrew Roberts on development of asylums and psychiatry — VG chronology and bibliography etc. of period. [downloaded as "Andrew-Roberts-chronological-and-alphabetical-bibliographies-of-lunacy.pdf""]

— War Hospital

— Recollections of local people

— PY Betts See People who say goodbye, See pp.45—48.

— The 1844 Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy / http://studymore.org.uk/4_09.htm[link] [no refs to Surrey?]

— The 1844 Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy [text] [no refs to Surrey?]

— Many mentions of Meyer in Ismeer-or-Smyrna-and-its-British-Hospital-in-1855-by-A-Lady-1856.pdf

— "Was Suicide a Female Malady?", Barbara Gates, Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories,Princeton University Press, 1988, chapter 7, online at Victorian Web (in Link to chapter 7 — alludes to Diamond. See also the rest of BG's book — starts here.

— Andrew Roberts: http://studymore.org.uk/ — home page with links to many relevant pages on his site, and elsewhere. Includes:

— Andrew Roberts: Mental Health History Timeline — very useful.

— Andrew Roberts: Chronological and alphabetical bibliographies of lunacy (pdf)

— Andrew Roberts:Surrey Lunatic Asylum (webpage)

— Andrew Roberts: Surrey Lunatic Asylum (pdf)

— Andrew Roberts: The Lunacy Commission: A Study of its Origin, Emergence and Character (webpage).