7.1 Numbers by History of Psychiatry Podcast Series published on 2016-10-12T13:48:55Z When we think about the history of psychiatry we probably envisage large institutional buildings that can look like military barracks or even prisons, their names locally synonymous with madness. Yet the great age of public asylums came quite late, between about 1830 and 1980. This podcast provides statistics on the rise and fall of institutional provision in different parts of Britain and Ireland, between 1800 and the present day. Image of the week: man in restraint chair, West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire, c. 1869 Full Bibliographic Record: Wellcome Library Catalogue L0019069 Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Genre Learning