Introduction -- Care of the mentally ill before 1800 -- Lunatic asylums of the nineteenth century -- Twentieth-century mental institutions -- Mental illness -- Inside the asylum -- The mentally ill in workhouses -- Criminal lunatics -- Asylums for idiots and imbeciles -- Mental illness in the armed forces -- Sources -- Appendix 1 Terminology in lunatic asylum records -- Appendix 2 Useful websites -- Appendix 3 Places to visit -- Bibliography -- Index
