When it was first built such establishments were referred to as 'lunatic asylums' and Whittingham was the second biggest in Europe. The hospital closed in 1995 and, while the NHS built Guild Park on ...

After President Donald Trump effectively slammed the door on asylum-seekers crossing the U.S. southern border when he took ...

By Jack Nicas Jack Nicas broke the story about Jair Bolsonaro’s apparent bid for asylum at the Hungarian ... investigation — arriving at the gate. There were the embassy staff members hustling ...

Established in 1827, the former colonial "insane asylum" and hospital has held thousands ... a Gulag museum in Russia and a 200-year-old slave house in Africa. "This is a profoundly timely and ...

Local police said: 'A 28-year-old man from Afghanistan was arrested close to the crime scene'. According to Spiegel, the suspected perpetrator is a male asylum seeker who is said to have had ...

It’s inconceivable that this peculiar building—once part of the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum—set the foundation for the university’s campus. It feels like an incongruous piece in a jigsaw ...

Award-winning author, Professor Paul Crawford draws on his research into lunatic asylums in his latest novel, The Wonders of Doctor Bent, to explore survival from childhood trauma. Did you know ...

Plans to use a former hospital in East Sussex as accommodation for asylum seekers are under consideration by the Home Office, it has been confirmed. The Esperance Hospital in Eastbourne operated ...

A series of haunting images reveal the dilapidated remains of a building once part of 'Manchester Royal Hospital for the Insane ... took a trip to the old asylum to photograph and document ...