I've just reviewed Joel Peter Eigen's new book, Mad-Doctors in the Dock, on 19th-century criminal insanity trials for the Times Higher Education http://ow.ly/u6hh3096B7R
My review of The Man Who Closed the Asylums by John Foot is in the Financial Times
http://ow.ly/R0Zfr
I reviewed Iain Sinclair’s London Overground for The Times Literary Supplement http://ow.ly/QvSIP
My review of Tommy Dickinson’s book Curing Queers is in The Guardian, here http://ow.ly/NWruL
Review of 6-volume history of the Metropolitan Police (The Times Literary
Supplement) http://ow.ly/KyPix
Review of Andrew Scull’s Madness in Civilization for The Financial Times http://ow.ly/LjKuM
Review of the Geffrye Museum’s exhibition Homes of the Homeless (The Lancet) http://ow.ly/Mng3q
Sherlock Holmes exhibition at the Museum of London review (The Lancet) http://ow.ly/HFfyR
The Lancet ‘Perspectives’ column: lunatic asylum whistleblowers in the 1830s & 40s http://ow.ly/NovjM
The Last Asylum book review (Financial Times) http://ow.ly/HFaDe
And here's some really old blasts from the past...
Buddhas exhibition at the Royal Academy (Guardian)
City of Laughter (Daily Telegraph)
Exposed: The Victorian Nude at Tate Britain review (Guardian)
The Fox & The Flies by Charles van Onselen, review (Literary Review)
Frith exhibition at the Guildhall Gallery (Daily Telegraph)
Gissing biography (Daily Telegraph)
Leading Lady: Interview with Barbara Barondess McLean (Guardian)
On the Bathroom (Guardian)
Slum Travellers, edited by Ellen Ross (Times Literary Supplement)
Temporary Structures Pt 1 (Guardian)
Temporary Structures Pt 2
The Colour White in Art (Guardian)
Uranium glass pt 1 (Guardian)
Uranium glass pt 2
The V&A’s Chamber of Horrors pt1 (Guardian)
V&A Chamber of Horrors pt2
V&A exhibition: Rural England Through a Victorian Lens (Guardian)
William Beckford: An Eye for the Magnificent (Guardian)