1. The excellent and well-illustrated website The workhouse – story of an institution … [www.workhouses.org.uk], run by Peter Higginbotham, covers every aspect of the workhouse system.
2. Bartlett, P. (1999). The Poor Law of Lunacy: the administration of pauper lunatics in mid-nineteenth century England. London: Leicester University Press..
3. Bulmer, M. (Eds.). (1991). The social survey in historical perspective, 1880–1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press..
4. Crowther, M.A. (2016). The Workhouse System 1834–1929: The History of an English Social Institution. London: Routledge.
5. A ‘Scottish Poor Law of Lunacy’? Poor law, lunacy law and Scotland’s parochial asylums;Farquharson;History of Psychiatry,2017