{"id":112,"date":"2014-01-30T08:49:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T08:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/?p=112"},"modified":"2015-05-23T09:23:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T09:23:41","slug":"new-book-the-last-asylum-by-barbara-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/news\/new-book-the-last-asylum-by-barbara-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: &#8216;The Last Asylum&#8217;, by Barbara Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/getimage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-113\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/getimage-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"getimage\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/getimage-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/getimage.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a>The Centre is proud to announce the publication of a new book by Barbara Taylor: <em>&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/the-last-asylum\/9780141966908\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Time.&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor&#8217;s journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system.<\/p>\n<p>The book begins with Barbara Taylor&#8217;s visit to the innocuously named Princess Park Manor in Friern Barnet, North London &#8212; a picture of luxury and repose. But this is the former site of one of England&#8217;s most infamous lunatic asylums, the Middlesex County Pauper Lunatic Aslyum at Colney Hatch. At its peak this asylum housed nearly 3,000 patients &#8212; among them, in the 1980s, Barbara Taylor herself.<\/p>\n<p>The Last Asylum is Taylor&#8217;s powerful account of her battle with mental illness, set inside the wider story of the end of the UK asylum system.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Taylor&#8217;s previous books include an award-winning study of nineteenth-century socialist feminism, Eve and the New Jerusalem; an intellectual biography of the pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft; and On Kindness, a defence of fellow feeling co-written with the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. She is a longstanding editor of the leading history journal, History Workshop Journal, and a director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. She teaches history and English at Queen Mary University of London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre is proud to announce the publication of a new book by Barbara Taylor: &#8216;The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Time.&#8217; The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor&#8217;s journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. The book begins with Barbara Taylor&#8217;s visit to the innocuously named Princess Park Manor [&#8230;] <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/news\/new-book-the-last-asylum-by-barbara-taylor\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}