In addition to the main podcast, each week there will be a sound recording of an extract which complements the podcast. You are strongly encouraged to listen to the extract first before listening to the main podcast. We have also included a text-based version of the extract so that you can view it as you listen to the podcast. The extracts can be found by clicking here
- Introduction (Please note there is no additional audio extract this week)
- Becoming insane. George Trosse (1650s) [Extract 2.1] [Extract 2.2]
- Depression. Hannah Allen (1660s) [Extract 3.1]
- Obsession. Alexander Cruden (1739) [Extract 4.1]
- Religious lunacy. Dionys Fitzherbert (1610) [Extract 5.1]
- Madness and genius. James Boswell (1778) [Extract 6.1]
- Religion and recovery. William Cowper (1764) [Extract 7.1]
- Compulsive and delusional behaviour (1777) [Extract 8.1] John Philip (4 podcasts)
- Protection or control? Alice Hill, ‘an idiot’ (1730s, 1740s) [Extract 9.1]
- A ‘silent madness’. Hugh Blair (1747) [Extract 10.1]
- Attempted suicide. William Cowper (1763) [Extract 11.1]
- Suicide 1. Letters, diaries, and notes in the National Archives of Scotland – [Extract 12.1] [Extract 12.2] [Extract 12.3] [Extract 12.4] [Extract 12.5] [Extract 12.6] [Extract 12.7] [Extract 12.8] [Extract 12.9]
- Suicide 2. A London coroner’s inquest verdict, 1791 [Extract 13.1]
- Being an asylum patient 1: Cardiff Asylum regulations, 1919 [Extract 14.1]
- Being an asylum patient 2: Letters from the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, late 19th century [Extract 15.1]
- Being an asylum patient 3a: Herman Charles Merivale admitted to Ticehurst, 1875 [Extract 16.1]
- Being an asylum patient 3b: Herman Charles Merivale at Ticehurst, 1875 [Extract 17.1]
- Being an asylum patient 4: Christian Watt at Aberdeen Royal Mental Asylum, 1877 [Extract 18.1]
- Fighting back. A ballad about William Frederick Windham, 1862 [Extract 19.1]
- Living with madness 1: an apprentice in danger, 1738 [Extract 20.1]
- Living with madness 2: an insane murderer, 1727 [Extract 21.1]
- Shell shock. ‘War Neuroses: Netley Hospital, 1917 [Watch Film Clip]