There have been many books that have contributed to both the information found on this website, our general interest in what we have seen, they have also given us many leads and creaking bookcases.\u00a0 This section will detail all the books that have provided us with the most of the information and history on the website.<\/p>\n
There have been many books that have helped us out, so we have broken them down into a number of different sections (do click on the list to jump to the relevant section).<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n Photography has become our primary hobby in recent years and has led to us reading a fair amount about it. Here is a list off all the books that have helped us out.<\/p>\n More than 100 vivid, graphic comparison pictures illustrate every point in this classic and can help any photographer maximize the creative impact of his or her exposure decisions. Peterson stresses the importance of metering the subject for a starting exposure and then explains how to use various exposure meters and different kinds of lighting. \u00a0This book helped us to gain a thorough understanding of what our cameras were trying to do!<\/p>\n Bryan Peterson This books leads the reader through a myriad of different design and compositional aspects when they are taking photographs. It contains detailed explanations of different theories, example pictures and then illustrations showing how the eye is led through the picture. This book totally changed the way TheTimeChamber thought about their photographs.<\/p>\n Michael Freeman This book is a must for anyone wanting to take pictures using multiple flash guns. This book TheTimeChamber occasionally dip into for lighting tips, although flash photography is quite new to us!<\/p>\n Joe McNally <\/a><\/p>\n A superb, large format coffee table book with lots of stunning images detailing the large, almost city like, American Asylums. Some stunning photography that influences \u00a0TheTimeChamber in many ways<\/p>\n Christopher Payne Encapsulating the origins and history of Newcastle\u0092s lunatic asylum in its entirety, from first opening in 1869 until what may be regarded as its eventual demise in 2001. \u00a0This book contains a detailed narrative of the hospitals history.<\/p>\n Logan Ewing Published a year before the hospital was due to close, Ruth Valentine has given a brief, yet meticulous history and insight into the\u00a0Horton Hospital\u00a0in Epsom.\u00a0\u00a0 It includes archive photos, various patient and staff stories and a short background into why the Horton Estate was chosen for the development of a cluster of Asylums.<\/p>\n Ruth Valentine One of the key texts that look at institutionalisation within the Asylums and was key to the rethinking of Mental Health Treatment.<\/p>\n Erving Goffman. John Crammer Looking at the treatment of the mentally ill, this book discusses NHS spending cuts and the recent drive towards closing mental hospitals and treating patients by means of “community care”. It looks at Victorian institutionalization and speculates on the adequacy of community care and support.<\/p>\n Peter Barham C. T Andrews Published in 1991, Jeremy Taylor\u0092s comprehensive and detailed study covers the majority of the Victorian Asylums built of a 150 year period.\u00a0\u00a0 Twenty eight pages are devoted to the rise of the Victorian and Edwardian asylums – from ad-hoc designs through the corridor, radiating pavilion, echelon and colony patterns. Taylor supplies comprehensive lists of asylums, architects and projects.<\/p>\n Jeremy Taylor This fascinating study presents a unique social history of psychiatry in the twentieth century. It brings together the memories and narratives of over sixty patients and workers who lived, or were employed, in Severalls Psychiatric Hospital, Essex, England. Personal accounts are contextualised both in relation to wider developments and issues in twentieth-century mental health, and in relation to policies and changes in the hospital itself. Organised around the theme of space and place, and drawing upon both quantitative and qualitative material, chapters deal with key areas such as gender divisions, power relations, patterns of admission and discharge, treatments, and the daily lives and routines of patients and nurses of both sexes.<\/p>\n Diana Gittins A meticulous analysis of the Norfolk Lunatic Asylum (which) gives a well-balanced, empirically grounded analysis both of the asylum and of what replaced it.\u00a0 An informed, clearly-structured narrative about a complex sequence of institutional development.\u00a0 Has proved an invaluable teaching aid for undergraduates studying the politics and practice of modern medicine.<\/p>\n Steven Cherry This book contributes to the growing scholarly interest in the history of disability by investigating the emergence of ‘idiot’ asylums in Victorian England. Using the National Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, as a case-study, it investigates the social history of institutionalization, privileging the relationship between the medical institution and the society whence its patients came.<\/p>\n David Wright The first comprehensive study of the current plight of Britains mental hospitals. These attractive and imposing Victorian buildings, carefully designed with extensive landscaped grounds, are now facing an uncertain future. By the year 2000, 98 out of a total of 121 will have closed. The report calls for tighter planning controls to be brought in to prevent the loss of both buildings and grounds to over-development. Published October 1995.<\/p>\n This book, incorporating some 70 photographs, tells the fascinating history of the former North Wales Hospital, Denbigh between 1842 and 1995. The hospital was built predominately to provide for Welsh Pauper Lunatics, the majority of whom were monoglot Welsh speakers, so that they could be cared for and treated in their own language instead of being sent to English Asylums.<\/p>\n Clwyd Wynne A powerful collection of photgraphs and comments from a psychiatric hospital as it moves towards closure.<\/p>\n Mark Saunders Bernard Cashman Exploring the way private asylum proprietors sought to develop and maintain a share of the market in mental health care, and how the families of patients were themselves deeply involved in the decisions about care, treatment and referral. Psychiatry for the Rich reconstructs middle and upper class attitudes to mental disorder, certification and confinement, as well as their changing evaluation of care. Through a detailed history of the asylum at Ticehurst in Sussex, Charlotte MacKenzie explores the consumer revolution which stimulated the proliferation of madhouses. She includes accounts of patients’ own experiences at Ticehurst and discusses the changing developments at the asylum through the course of the nineteenth century amidst changes in therapeutic regimen and calls for lunacy reform.<\/p>\n Charlotte MacKenzie A small book produced by the current Mental Health Trust at Wandsworth that covers the early history of the\u00a0First Asylum<\/a>\u00a0to be built in Surrey, this publication should be available via the Trust.<\/p>\n Ian Lodge Patch<\/p>\n The Hospital at Stone House was unique, being the only Asylum owned and run by the Corporation of London and served the community of 139 years.\u00a0 This book covers the entire history and is filled with photos, account and descriptions from the hospital during the time it was open.<\/p>\n Francine Payne The author, Ann Littlewood, started working at Storthes Hall Hospital in 1968 and her fascinating account traces the history of the site at Kirkburton from before the construction of the hospital, during it’s lifetime until closure (1904-1991). There are chapters within the book relating to the lives and treatment of the patients and those who were responsible for them. Patients from all parts of England, particularly Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Halifax and Barnsley were admitted to this hospital.<\/p>\n Ann Littlewood Mr Gardner has achieved what others have only hoped to do-he has written a very concise historical guide to one particular personal contact in the otherwise neglected and sometimes badly documented story of “madhouses”. People tend to forget nowadays that these institutions functioned in a somewhat “Victorian” manner until recent times and a lot of what happened inside the walls was either not documented or ignored.<\/p>\n James Gardner Dreaded and reviled by many, these nineteenth-century buildings provide a unique window on how the Victorians housed and treated the mentally ill. Despite initially good intentions, they became warehouses for society\u0092s outcasts at a time when cures were rare. Isolated, hidden in the countryside and surrounded by high walls, most have been closed since the 1980s, their original use largely forgotten. In The Victorian Asylum Sarah Rutherford gives an insight into their history, their often imposing architecture and their later decline and brings to life these haunting buildings, some of which still survive today<\/p>\n Sarah RutherfordPhotography Books<\/h1>\n
Understanding Exposure, 3rd Edition: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera<\/h2>\n
\nISBN:\u00a0978-0817463007<\/p>\nThe Photographer’s Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos<\/h2>\n
\nISBN:\u00a0978-1905814046<\/p>\nThe Hot Shoe Diaries: Big Light from Small Flashes<\/h2>\n
\nISBN: 9780321580146<\/p>\nVictorian Asylums<\/h1>\n
Asylum: Inside The Closed World of State Mental Hospitals<\/h2>\n
\nISBN: 978-0-262-01349-9<\/p>\nA History of St. Nicholas Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England 1869-2001<\/h2>\n
\nISBN: 9781438937540<\/p>\nAsylum, Hospital, Haven – A History of Horton Hospital<\/h2>\n
\nISBN: 0952830604<\/p>\nAsylums:\u00a0Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates<\/h2>\n
\nISBN: 0140210075
\nISBN13: 978-0140210071<\/p>\nAsylum History: Buckingham County Pauper Lunatic Asylum – St.John’s<\/h2>\n
\nISBN: 0902241346<\/p>\nClosing the Asylum (The mental patient in modern society)<\/h2>\n
\nISBN-13: 9780140265804
\nIISBN-10: 0140265805<\/p>\nThe Dark Awakening: A history of St Lawrence’s Hospital, Bodmin<\/h2>\n
\nISBN-13: 9780950472218
\nISBN-10: 0950472212<\/p>\nHospital and Asylum Architecture in England 1840-1914<\/h2>\n
\nISBN 0720120594<\/p>\nMadness in Its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-97<\/h2>\n
\nISBN: 0415167868<\/p>\nMental Health Care in Modern England: The Norfolk Lunatic Asylum\/St Andrew’s Hospital, 1810-1998<\/h2>\n
\nISBN: 0851159206<\/p>\nMental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901<\/h2>\n
\nISBN: 0199246394<\/p>\nMind Over Matter –\u00a0A Study Of The Country’s Threatened Mental Asylums<\/h2>\n
The North Wales Hopsital, Denbigh 1842 – 1995<\/h2>\n
\nISBN: 9780951483145<\/p>\nParc Hospital,The Last Days<\/h2>\n
\nISBN: 9780951483145<\/em><\/p>\nProper House: Bedford Lunatic Asylum,1812-1860<\/h2>\n
\nISBN: 0951362623<\/p>\nPsychiatry for the Rich: History of Ticehurst Private Asylum, 1792-1917<\/h2>\n
\nISBN: 0415088917<\/p>\nSpringfield Hospital – A Short History<\/h2>\n
Stone House – The City of London Asylum<\/h2>\n
\nISBN: 0955646006<\/p>\nStorthes Hall Remembered<\/h2>\n
\nISBN: 1862180466<\/p>\nSweet Bells Jangled Out of Tune: A History of the Sussex Lunatic Asylum (St.Francis Hospital, Haywards Heath)<\/h2>\n
\nISBN:0953610101<\/p>\nThe Victorian Asylum<\/h2>\n
\nISBN: 9780747806691<\/p>\n