• Skip to content
  • Upload
  • Contact us
  • twitter
  • facebook
Lancashire Learning Disability Institutions
A people’s history of institutional life
  • Home
  • About
  • History
  • Themes
  • Archive
  • News
  • Want to help?
You are here: Home>History>Lancashire Institutions>Royal Albert

Royal Albert Highvolume Play Pause Stop

  • 1937 Historical Synopsis - Royal Albert

    1937 Historical Synopsis - Royal Albert

    This ‘Historical Synopsis’ (or summary) written by Samuel Keir (Secretary 1905 – 1937), was published by the Royal Albert Institution ...
  • About the Royal Albert

    About the Royal Albert

    At a time when the dominant legislation (i.e. the 1845 Lunacy Act) muddied distinctions between learning disability and mental illness, ...
  • Royal Albert - Lunacy Commission Reports 1871-6

    Royal Albert - Lunacy Commission Reports 1871-6

    The Lunacy Commision, set up by the Lunacy Act 1845, inspected the running of the Royal Albert, and similar institutions, ...
  • The Royal Albert - a progressive Victorian asylum?

    The Royal Albert - a progressive Victorian asylum?

    In 2017, as a history student at the University of Chester, Liam Barnard completed his undergraduate dissertation on the nineteenth ...
Lancashire Institutions
  • Brockhall
  • Calderstones
  • Royal Albert
Search the archive

Advanced search

By keyword

By institution

By date

By format

By role

North West Training and Development Team (opens in new window) Heritage Lottery Fund (opens in new window) Pathways Associates (opens in new window)
Copyright the site owners. All rights reserved. Website by CommunitySites