Documents on the pioneering work of the Crichton Royal Institution in Dumfries are now recognised by Unesco.

Researching the history of the asylum can be a case of feast and famine, often at the same time. Some asylums left, if not mountains of records, then at least large hills. I mean that literally. An ...

Volunteers who look after a cemetery have thanked a local business for their "extraordinary gesture of kindness" after they fixed a damaged headstone. The memorial stone for Herbert Mackie at Mendip ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using just their hands and small shovels to remove soil one scoop at a time, archaeologists have begun the arduous task of ...

Tucked away on the northeast side of University of Mississippi Medical Center's campus in Jackson is a patch of trees which has been left untouched — and for the most part forgotten — for the better ...

NBC journalist Antonia Hylton spent more than a decade piecing together the history of Maryland's first segregated asylum, where Black patients... What a Jim Crow-era asylum can teach us about mental ...

The UB Art Galleries is calling on the Buffalo community to help preserve the stories of women who were once patients at the former Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane, now the site of the historic ...