A forbidding fortress of locks, bars and padded cells : the locational history of mental health care in Nottingham / by Hester Parr and Chris Philo.

A geographical history of institutional provision for the insane from medieval times to the 1860s in England and Wales : the space reserved for insanity / Chris Philo.

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A forbidding fortress of locks, bars and padded cells : the locational history of mental health care in Nottingham / by Hester Parr and Chris Philo.

A geographical history of institutional provision for the insane from medieval times to the 1860s in England and Wales : the space reserved for insanity / Chris Philo.