A West Virginia non-profit is looking to further its restoration efforts of a handful of Weston cemeteries linked to the ...

The team have taken a look inside the former Crichton Royal Hospital in Dumfries, which is set to be transformed into a ...

The city's asylum was the first to ban restraints.

Award-winning author, Professor Paul Crawford draws on his research into lunatic asylums in his latest novel, The Wonders of ...

During the terrible fire Wednesday night at the Lunatic Asylum, no persons more exerted themselves or performed more efficient service than Dr. MORELL and Dr. STEWARD, the Assistant Surgeons.

New plans have been unveiled to transform an island that housed an asylum with a dark history of abuse into a tourist attraction. Peat Island in the Hawkesbury River on NSW Central Coast was ...

He was committed to Colney Hatch lunatic asylum in north London the following year. He died 28 years later in the Leavesden Asylum, Hertfordshire. His eldest brother, Isaac, was a wealthy tailor ...

Peat Island was established as an asylum for “inebriates” in 1911 before it was reopened as a psychiatric hospital, just 50km north of Sydney. If the walls could talk they would tell of the ...