At Home in the Institution : Material Life in Asylums, Lodging Houses and Schools in Victorian and Edwardian England
ISBN: 9781137322395
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Subjects: Social Science; History;

At Home in the Institution examines space and material culture in asylums, lodging houses and schools in Victorian and Edwardian England, and explores the powerful influence of domesticity on all three institutional types.


Jane Hamlett is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Her first book, Material Relations: Middle-Class Families and Domestic Interiors in England, 1850-1910, was published in 2010. Together with Lesley Hoskins and Rebecca Preston, she also edited Residential Institutions in Modern Britain, which came out in 2013.

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