Researching the history of the asylum can be a case of feast and famine, often at the same time. Some asylums left, if not mountains of records, then at least large hills. I mean that literally. An ...

Documents on the pioneering work of the Crichton Royal Institution in Dumfries are now recognised by Unesco.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using just their hands and small shovels to remove soil one scoop at a time, archaeologists have begun the arduous task of ...

Volunteers who look after a cemetery have thanked a local business for their "extraordinary gesture of kindness" after they fixed a damaged headstone. The memorial stone for Herbert Mackie at Mendip ...

Eerie photos show the interior of an abandoned asylum, which has featured in several seriously creepy films. Urban explorer Ben Stevens ventured to the long-deserted Medfield State Hospital, formerly ...

Ex-mental health commissioner King Davis, PhD, left, leads the Friends of Central State group, Dr. Ronald O. Forbes serves as the vice chairman, pose for a photo in Dinwiddie, Va., Monday, Sept. 14, ...

Though it’s often said that America “closed the asylums” in the twentieth century, every state still operates at least one public mental institution. These facilities, called state hospitals, are the ...

BURIED AT THE SITE. IT’S CALLED THE ASYLUM HILL PROJECT. BUT CONSTRUCTION UNCOVERED HUMAN REMAINS AND GRAVES IN 2012. NOW, ARCHEOLOGICAL STUDIES PREDICT THERE COULD BE UP TO 7000 PEOPLE BURIED ON ...

Tucked away on the northeast side of University of Mississippi Medical Center's campus in Jackson is a patch of trees which has been left untouched — and for the most part forgotten — for the better ...

A letter (July 29) responding to “It’s Time to Bring Back Asylums” (Review, July 22) equates “asylums” to “horrible places. . ., the locus for unspeakable abuse and neglect.” So long as we refer to ...