The madhouse often figures prominently in popular conceptions of the nineteenth century, yet little is known about the realities of private institutions. In Psychiatry for the Rich, Charlotte MacKenzie examines the history of the asylum at Ticehurst in Sussex to explore the social history of madness and the impact of politics and popular opinion. She details the backgrounds of the patients, their own descriptions of the asylum as well as changes in the institution through the luna...

This book explores Cornish mysteries from Georgian Cornwall. Folk lore and the supernatural. Skilful aunts and village doctresses. Cornish fugitives and missing persons. Real people from Cornwall’s past.

Cornwall and the peace explores individual choices in Georgian Cornwall. Living in Georgian Cornwall. Choosing not to leave. Leaving home in Georgian Cornwall. Choosing whether or not to return. Lodging in Georgian Penzance. Travelling with relations. Travelling alone. Choices interwoven with individual identities and circumstances over time. It focuses partly on life in Penzance during the brief interlude, from March 1802 to May 1803, in the quarter century of wars between Britain and Fra...

Cornish medics focuses on healthcare in Georgian Cornwall. It includes brief biographies of over 400 Georgian surgeons, apothecaries, druggists, physicians and other healthcare practitioners.

A new biography of Mary Broad. A documentary not a drama.

More has been written about smugglers than merchants in eighteenth century Cornwall. Yet Cornish merchants led and organised Cornwall’s eighteenth century trade including smuggling. This book places Cornwall’s merchants in the context of their social and family relationships, commerce and credit, politics, communications, know-how, culture, and faiths. It is a story of women as well as men. It looks at Cornwall’s participation in transatlantic trade including the eighteenth century slave t...

This book explores the lives of women writers connected with Cornwall during the Georgian era. All were published authors. Cornwall influenced the writing of the Brontës through their mother’s Cornish relations. Many of the Brontës’ completed novels were set in the Georgian era. The lives and writing of twelve women who are less well known than the Brontës are rediscovered here. Individual chapters focus on Catherine Phillips, Elizabeth Trefusis, Anne Batten Cristall, Eliza Fenwick, Thomas...

This book explores relationships between historical individuals and Cornish legends. The Cornish folklorists. How the Brontës’ novels were influenced by Cornish folk tales and other stories of their aunt Elizabeth Branwell. The women whose lives were affected by men on whom the legend of ‘Cruel Coppinger’ may have been based. When and how the Cornish woman Mary Broad’s experiences were reinvented to create the legendary Mary Bryant. The choice of subjects make it clear that ‘legends’ is no...

Mary Ann Parker was the first European woman to publish a travel memoir of New South Wales. After travelling with her husband, Captain John Parker of HMS Gorgon. Mary Ann Parker's family origins are revealed here for the first time.

It all starts with a girl... (because yes, there's always a girl...)Jason Priestley (not that one) has just seen her. They shared an incredible, brief, fleeting moment of deep possibility, somewhere halfway down Charlotte Street.And then, just like that, she was gone - accidentally leaving him holding her old-fashioned, disposable camera, chock full of undeveloped photos...And now Jason - ex-teacher, ex-boyfriend, part-time writer and reluctant hero...

Tiny cues shape your days and, compounded, shape your destiny. Catalyst Habits shows why your brain obeys triggers instead of willpower and teaches a four step “Catalyst Method” to hijack those cues for good: spot the current trigger, hitch a two minute micro routine onto it, reward the win instantly, and let compounding do the heavy lifting.James Mackenzie breaks the process into environment design, habit stacking, identity based change, and the inversion strategy for breaking bad...

In "Owindia: A True Tale of the MacKenzie River Indians, North-West America," Charlotte Selina Bompas presents a poignant narrative that intricately weaves the ethnographic observations of the MacKenzie River Indigenous communities with a deeply personal storytelling style. The book stands out for its vivid descriptions of the natural beauty and cultural richness of the region, effectively grounding the reader in the historical and social contexts of early 20th-century Canada. Bompas emplo...