1. Abigail Wills, ‘Delinquency, Masculinity and Citizenship in England 1950–70’, Past & Present, 187, 1 (2005), 157–85.
2. TNA J127/221 [1973–75].
3. Claire Hilton, Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People: Barbara Robb’s Campaign 1965–75 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 26.
4. Bartlett and Sandland, op. cit. (note 8), 249.
5. Mental capacity in the context of personal welfare decisions was defined in Re C (Refusal of Medical Treatment)[1994] 1 WLR 290. The meaning of being ‘incapable to manage one’s affairs’ was finally tested in Masterman-Lister v Brutton & Co [2002] EWHC 417 (QB) and [2002] EWCA Civ 1889. Thanks to Denzil Lush for bringing this latter case to my attention.