Publications - Academic and non-fiction
BOOKS
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Gender and Class in English Asylums, 1890-1914, Palgrave Macmillan (2014).
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John Falconer, Louise Hide, Points of View. Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs, British Library (2009).
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Unbecoming. A Women’s History of the Asylum in Five Casebooks, Forthcoming.
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A History of Old Age Care, in progress and under contract with Polity.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
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Louise Hide and Joanna Bourke ‘Introduction: Cultures of harm in institutions of care’, Social History of Medicine 31 (4), (2018).

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‘In plain sight: open doors, mixed-sex wards and sexual abuse in English psychiatric hospitals, 1950s-early 1990s’, Social History of Medicine 31 (4), (2018).
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‘Making sense of pain: delusions, syphilis, and somatic pain in London County Council Asylums, c. 1900. 19:
Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century , 15 (2012)
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With Carmen Mangion and Joanna Bourke, ‘Introduction: Perspectives on Pain’ in 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century , 15 (2012)
BOOK CHAPTERS
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‘Mental hospitals, social exclusion and public ”scandals”’ in Ikkos, G. and Bouras, N. (eds.) Mind, State and Society:
Psychiatry and Mental Health in Britain 1960-2010, Cambridge University Press (2022).
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‘Removing the “veil of secrecy”: public inquiries as sources in the history of Psychiatry, 1960s - 1970s’ in Millard, C. and Wallis, J. (eds.) Sources in the History of Psychiatry, from 1800 to the Present, Routledge (2022).
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‘The uses and misuses of television in long-stay psychiatric and mental handicap' wards, 1950s-1980s’ in Ankele, M. and Majerus, B. (eds.) Material Cultures of Psychiatry. Bielefeld, Germany Transcript (2020).
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‘From asylum to mental hospital: gender, space and the patient experience in London County Council Asylums, 1890-1910’ in Hamlett, J. and Hoskins, L. and Preston, R. (eds.), Residential Institutions in Britain, 1725-1970. Inmates and Environments, Pickering and Chatto (2013).
EDITORIAL
Lead guest editor with Joanna Bourke, ‘Cultures of Harm in Institutions of Care’, Social History of Medicine 31.4 (2018).
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Guest editor with Carmen Mangion and Joanna Bourke, 'Perspectives on Pain', 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 15, (2012).
BOOK REVIEWS
The Undesirables by Sarah Wise in History Today, 74.6 (2024).
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Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England. Cure,
Redemption and Rehabilitation by Alison C. Pedley in Social History of Medicine, 38.3 (2025).
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Lost Souls: Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum by Diana Peschier and Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity in Victorian Society: Caterham Asylum, 1867–1911 by Stef Eastoe in Victorian Studies, 64.2 (2022).
Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People. Barbara Robb's Campaign 1965-1975 by Claire Hilton in History of Psychiatry, 29.4 (2018).
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Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum. Doctors, Patients, and Practices by Jennifer Wallis for History of the Human Sciences (blog), August 2018.
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Work, society and psychiatry, c. 1750-2015 ed. by Waltraud Ernst for History of the Human Sciences (blog), Nov 2016.
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Petteri Pietikäinen, Madness. A History in Social History of Medicine 29.3 (2016).
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Tommy Dickinson, Curing Queers: Mental Nurses and their Patients, 1935-74 in History of Psychiatry, 27.2 (2016).
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Events
TV & RADIO
I have spoken live on national radio and appeared on television.
'The Language of Pain', BBC Radio 4, 2 May 2015'
Thinking Allowed', BBC Radio 4, 16 February 2015
'Secrets from the Asylum, ITV, 20 August 2014 (consultant and contributor)
I was co-curator of a major exhibition at the British Library 'Points of View. Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs' (2009). And I was lead organiser, with Joanna Bourke, of 'Pain and its Meanings' - a two-day event at Wellcome Collection when poets, musicians, artists and leading thinkers from different disciplines presented specially commissioned work and thought-provoking papers to stimulate discussion around the meaning of pain.
Syphilis. Gouache by Richard Tennant Cooper, 1912.​ Wellcome Collection: 44681i