One afternoon in May 1852, Mrs Elizabeth Bunn, live-in housekeeper to a Church of England vicar, came home unexpectedly early and found her employer in the act of sexually assaulting her ...

When we think of mental hospitals, images of Gothic Victorian asylums, or the flourescent-lit linoleum of modern psychiatric wards often spring to mind. Many of our ideas about what it was like to ...

In a quiet suburb in Croydon, a Victorian Gothic chapel stands as one of the remaining sentinels of Cane Hill Hospital, a sprawling psychiatric facility. The chapel at Chaucer Gardens, one of the few ...

This article is the result of collaborations with Swansea Bay University Health Board Arts in Health and Heritage Team who were funded by a Heritage Lottery Fund grant to develop an exhibition on the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The women look out at us across 170 years of history with a variety of expressions — bold and shy, serene and ...