Exercise is the Thing? Sport and the Asylum c. 1850-1950

Cherry, Steven and Munting, Roger (2005) Exercise is the Thing? Sport and the Asylum c. 1850-1950. International Journal of the History of Sport, 22 (1). pp. 42-58. ISSN 1743-9035

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Abstract

Team games, initially and principally cricket but later other games, were played in mental asylums in various parts of Britain from the mid-nineteenth century, before being abandoned in the move to 'care in the community' from c.1980s. Taking as a detailed example the Norfolk Lunatic Asylum (later St Andrew's Hospital), this article examines the use of games in patient therapy. Games were originally confined to male patients but later included women. Using archival and interview sources we assess the value of such therapy, the response of the patients and the demise of the idea before the final closure of the hospital.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2010 13:56
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2025 04:09
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9049
DOI:	10.1080/0952336052000314629

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