GO FURTHER

Eight more websites that can help your research

HIGH ROYDS HOSPITAL

w highroydshospital.com

Learn more about the former West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum. For Wakefield’s Pauper Lunatic Asylum, visit wakefieldasylum.co.uk instead.

LINCOLNSHIRE HOSPITALS

w bit.ly/lincs-hospitals

Casebooks for the Lawn Hospital, Lincoln, and St John’s Hospital, Bracebridge Heath (formerly the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum), are now available to view on Lincolnshire Archives’ website at www.lincstothepast.com.

LOTHIAN HEALTH SERVICES ARCHIVE

w lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk

This website has all sorts of useful advice about researching both staff and patients at hospitals.

MEDICAL REGISTERS AND DIRECTORIES

w ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/61053

This Ancestry/Wellcome Library offering can help you trace health professionals in a number of registers, directories and other sources.

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

w bit.ly/tna-hospital-records

TNA has produced a quick guide to researching hospital records that’s a good place to start.

PRESTWICH ASYLUM ADMISSIONS

w bit.ly/fmp-prestwich

Search 22,722 admissions to Prestwich Asylum, from its opening in January 1851 up to 1901.

STAFFORDSHIRE’S ASYLUMS

w staffordshireasylumrecords.wordpress.com This project investigates patients’ experiences at Staffordshire’s three county asylums: Stafford, Burntwood and Cheddleton (1818–1960).

VOLUNTARY HOSPITALS DATABASE

w hospitalsdatabase.lshtm.ac.uk

This website provides statistical data from voluntary hospitals in Britain and Ireland between the 1890s and 1940s.