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Another Mental NurseLetter
Nursing Record and Hospital World, vol 17, p.48
12 Dec. 1896UK
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Thompson, Katherine H. Newspaper article
The female side of Kew Asylum, in the Argus (Melbourne)
26 Mar 1886AU
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David BrailsfordMemoir
Memories of a Lunaric Asylum Attendant (Self-published, 2014). ASIN: B00ID8KBWS
1950s-late20thcUK
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Kim Forester
Non-fiction drawn from original family diaries
Inside Broadmoor: Secrets of the Criminally Insane - Revealed by the Chief Attendant (Self-published, 2016)
1873-1912UK
Author's great-grandfather 'Charles Bishop Coleman worked at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum for 38 years between 1873 and 1912, where he met, guarded and wrote about the inside secrets of over 700 inmates'
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VariousMagazine (contains letters)Asylum NewsUK
See discussion in: Neuendorf, M. (2019). Psychiatry’s ‘Others’? Rethinking the Professional Self-Fashioning of British Mental Nurses c. 1900–20. Medical History, 63(3), 291-313. doi:10.1017/mdh.2019.28
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VariousMagazine (contains letters)National Asylum Workers' Magazine
1912-1945; 1912-1929 digitised online
https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/MHI/P/1
UK
See discussion in: Neuendorf, Mark. "Keeping the Light Shining: The National Asylum Workers' Union Magazine and the Print Culture of British Trade Unionism, ca. 1912–14." Victorian Periodicals Review 54, no. 1 (2021): 114-146. doi:10.1353/vpr.2021.0004.
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Poston, AdeleJournal article
The American Journal of Nursing, 14, pp 95-98
1913USA
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Derek McCarthyMemoir
Certified and Detained: The True Story of Life in an English Mental Hospital from 1957 to 1963 As Seen Then Through the Eyes of a Young Male Student Nurse (D & L McCarthy Products, 2009)
1957-1963UK
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John LeechMemoir
The Lunatic Years Growing Up in the Wilts County Mental Hospital (J. Leech, 1992)
UKChild of a staff member (Superintendent?)
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Dennis O'DonnellMemoir
The Locked Ward: Memoirs of a Psychiatric Orderly (Vintage, 2012)
2000Scotland
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Carol Webley-BrownMemoir / autobiography
Memoirs of an NHS Black Mental Health Nurse, 1979-2021 (2021)
UK
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