Katherine Fennelly is Lecturer in Heritage at the University of Lincoln -- .
'In this book Katherine Fennelly provides one of the first glimpses into the world of early lunatic asylums in Ireland and England. [… it] is an interesting, scholarly study of a field of growing interest among academics and the general public. It is well worth reading.' Antiquity 'An Archaeology of Lunacy is a modest but useful addition to the literature on the peculiar world of the nineteenth- century asylum.' Andrew Scull, Victorian Studies -- .