From personal accounts to bureaucratic standards: administration reform in nineteenth century asylums

Author(s): Katherine Fennelly

Year: 2013

Summary

Utilising methods drawn from history, archaeology and codicology, this paper will consider the changes and challenges brought about by standardisation of administrative paperwork in public asylums in the nineteenth century. This is drawn from current PhD research based on asylum planning, management and administration in the British Isles.

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From personal accounts to bureaucratic standards: administration reform in nineteenth century asylums. Katherine Fennelly. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428308)

Keywords

General
asylums bureaucracy Paper

Geographic Keywords
United Kingdom Western Europe

Temporal Keywords
Nineteenth Century

Spatial Coverage

min long: -8.158; min lat: 49.955 ; max long: 1.749; max lat: 60.722 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

Record Identifiers

PaperId(s): 552