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“. . . here is an Asylum open . . .” Constructing a Culture of Government Care in Australia 1801 – 2014 now online

01 Friday Aug 2014

Posted by Special Collections in asylums, James Fletcher Hospital History, The Newcastle Industrial School for Girls

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Community Mental Heath, Heathcare, Heritage, james fletcher hospital site, Mental Health Institutions

Carriage Drive Insane Asylum Newcastle. (Newcastle Hospital for the Insane, Watt Street, Newcastle, NSW) 22 November 1888 (Ralph Snowball, Norm Barney Photographic Collection, Cultural Collections UoN)

Carriage Drive Insane Asylum Newcastle. (Newcastle Hospital for the Insane, Watt Street, Newcastle, NSW) 22 November 1888 (Image derived from Ralph Snowball glass negative, Norm Barney Photographic Collection, Cultural Collections UoN)

Dr Ann Hardy’s thesis  ““. . . here is an Asylum open . . .” Constructing a Culture of Government Care in Australia 1801 – 2014″ on the national significance of the former James Fletcher Hospital site is now available free of charge on the University’s NOVA database.

It explores the earliest permanent settlement at Coal River, NSW, the Newcastle Government Domain (NGD). This was the site of Government House, early convict administration, military barracks, then Girl’s Industrial School and Reformatory and finally as a ‘lunatic asylum’.

The Newcastle Government Domain was the site of the first Government institution for the intellectually disabled in Australia, opening in 1871. This thesis explores the transition of the NGD from active health care campus to heritage site tracing and exploring contemporary issues in heritage, the role of interdisciplinary non-governmental organisations in heritage advocacy and the possibility of overtly recognising the positive benefits of heritage conservation for mental well-being at this and other sites. The diverse strands of this research are taken in many directions that are of importance for debates in the field of history and heritage and historical archaeology.  Particular emphasis is given to links between cultural heritage and well-being.

Dr Ann Hardy’s Thesis can now be downloaded in full here: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1045262

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