2022

Burchell, Andrew and Thomson, Mathew (2022) Composing well-being : mental health and the Mass Observation Project in twentieth-century. Britain Social History of Medicine, 35 (2). pp. 444-472. doi:10.1093/shm/hkab104

2015

Turner, John, Hayward, Rhodri, Angel, Katherine, Fulford, Bill, Hall, John, Millard, Chris and Thomson, Mathew (2015) The history of mental health services in modern England : practitioner memories and the direction of future research. Medical History, 59 (4). pp. 599-624. doi:10.1017/mdh.2015.48 ISSN 0025-7273.

2013

Thomson, Mathew (2013) Lost freedom : the landscape of the child and the British post-war settlement. Oxford : Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199677481 (In Press)

2012

Thomson, Mathew (2012) Psychology and the engineering of society in twentieth-century Britain? In: Ziemann, Benjamin, (ed.) Engineering society: the role of the human and social sciences in modern societies, 1880-1980. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.. ISBN 9780230279070

2011

Thomson, Mathew (2011) Review of Voluntary action and illegal drugs : health and society in Britain since the 1960s, by Mold, A. and Berridge, V. The Economic History Review, Vol.64 (No.3). pp. 1042-1043. ISSN 0013-0117

Thomson, Mathew (2011) "The solution to his own enigma" : connecting the life of Montague David Eder (1865-1936), socialist, psychoanalyst, Zionist and modern saint. Medical History, No.55 (No.1). pp. 61-84. ISSN 0025-7273.

2010

Thomson, Mathew (2010) Disability, psychiatry, and eugenics. In: Bashford, Alison, 1963- and Levine, Philippa, (eds.) The Oxford handbook of the history of eugenics. Oxford handbooks in history . New York, NY ; Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 116-133. ISBN 9780195373141

Thomson, Mathew (2010) Mental hygiene in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century : the limits of international influence. In: Roelcke, Volker, 1958- and Weindling, Paul J. and Westwood, Louise, 1947-, (eds.) International relations in psychiatry : Britain, Germany, and the United States to World War II. Rochester studies in medical history (15). Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, pp. 134-155. ISBN 9781580463393

2009

Thomson, Mathew (2009) Review of The sleep of others and the transformation of sleep research, by Kroker, K. Social History of Medicine, Vol.22 (No.2). pp. 416-417. ISSN 0951-631X

2008

Thomson, Mathew (2008) Review of : Mental illness and learning disability since 1850 : finding a place for mental disorder in the United Kingdom, by Dale, P. and Melling, J. Economic History Review, Volume 61 (Number 4). pp. 1012-1013. ISSN 0013-0117

2007

Thomson, Mathew (2007) Psychological subjects : response. History of the Human Sciences, Vol.20 (No.3). pp. 141-147. doi:10.1177/095269510707933801

2006

Thomson, Mathew (2006) Psychological subjects : identity, culture, and health in twentieth-century Britain. Oxford scholarship online. . Oxford : Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199287802

2004

Thomson, Mathew (2004) Care and treatment of the mentally ill in North Wales 1800-2000. MEDICAL HISTORY, 48 (2). pp. 263-264. ISSN 0025-7273

2003

Thomson, Mathew (2003) Building a better race: Gender, sexuality, and engenics from the turn of the century to the baby boom. SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 16 (2). pp. 314-315. ISSN 0951-631X

Thomson, Mathew (2003) Mental disability in Victorian England: the Earlswood asylum 1847-1901. BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, 36 (129 Part 2). pp. 246-247. ISSN 0007-0874

2002

Thomson, Mathew (2002) Reconciling science and religion: The debate in early twentieth-century Britain. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (5165). p. 6. ISSN 0307-661X

Thomson, Mathew (2002) Madness, cannabis and colonialism: The 'native only' lunatic asylums of British India, 1857-1900. SOCIAL HISTORY, 27 (1). pp. 80-83. ISSN 0307-1022

Thomson, Mathew (2002) The Poor Law of lunacy: The administration of pauper lunatics in mid-nineteenth century England. SOCIAL HISTORY, 27 (1). pp. 80-83. ISSN 0307-1022

Thomson, Mathew (2002) The borderland of imbecility: Medicine, society and the fabrication of the feeble mind in late Victorian and Edwardian England. SOCIAL HISTORY, 27 (1). pp. 80-83. ISSN 0307-1022

2001

Thomson, Mathew (2001) Neurasthenia in Britain. In: Gijswijt-Hofstra, Marijke and Porter, Roy, 1946-2002, (eds.) Cultures of neurasthenia from Beard to the First World War. The Wellcome series in the history of medicine . Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, pp. 77-95. ISBN 9042009314

Thomson, Mathew (2001) Psychology and the consciousness of modernity in Britain, 1900-1950. In: Daunton, M. J. (Martin J.) and Rieger, Bernhard, (eds.) Meanings of modernity : Britain from the late-Victorian era to World War II. Oxford : Berg, pp. 97-115. ISBN 1859734960

Thomson, Mathew (2001) The popular, the practical and the professional : psychological Identities in Britain, 1900-50. In: Bunn, G. C. (Geoffrey C.) and Lovie, A. D. (Alexander D.) and Richards, Graham, (eds.) Psychology in Britain: Historical Essays and Personal Reflections. Leicester: British Psychological Society, pp. 115-131. ISBN 9781854333322

2000

Thomson, Mathew (2000) Constituting citizenship : mental deficiency, mental health and human rights in Britain, 1900-1950. In: Lawrence, Christopher, 1947- and Mayer, Anna -K., (eds.) Regenerating England : science, medicine and culture in inter-war Britain. Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine . Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 231-250. ISBN 904200911X

Thomson, Mathew (2000) The psychological body. In: Cooter, Roger and Pickstone, John V., (eds.) Medicine in the twentieth century. Amsterdam : Harwood Academic, pp. 291-306. ISBN 9789057024795

1999

Thomson, Mathew (1999) Keeping America sane: Psychiatry and eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940. SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 12 (1). pp. 166-167. ISSN 0951-631X

Thomson, Mathew (1999) Savage civilisation : race, culture and mind in Britain, 1898-1939. In: Harris, Bernard, 1961- and Ernst, Waltraud, 1955-, (eds.) Race, science, and medicine, 1700-1960. Studies in the social history of medicine . London: Routledge, pp. 235-258. ISBN 0415181526

1998

Thomson, Mathew (1998) Before anti-psychiatry : mental health in wartime Britain. In: Gijswijt-Hofstra, Marijke and Porter, Roy, 1946-2002, (eds.) Cultures of psychiatry and mental health care in postwar Britain and the Netherlands. Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine (No.49). Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 43-59. ISBN 9042006625

Thomson, Mathew (1998) Community care and control of mental defectives in inter-war Britain. In: Horden, Peregrine and Smith, Richard, MB, CHB, (eds.) The locus of care : families, communities, institutions, and the provision of welfare since antiquity. Studies in the social history of medicine . London: Routledge, pp. 198-216. ISBN 0415112168

Thomson, Mathew (1998) The problem of mental deficiency : eugenics, democracy, and social policy in Britain c.1870-1959. Oxford historical monographs . Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198206925

1996

Thomson, Mathew (1996) Family, community, and state : the micro-politics of mental deficiency in inter-war Britain. In: Wright, David, 1965- and Digby, Anne, (eds.) From idiocy to mental deficiency : historical perspectives on people with learning disabilities. Studies in the social history of medicine (No.3). London: Routledge, pp. 207-230. ISBN 041511215X

Thomson, Mathew (1996) Though ever the subject of psychological medicine : psychiatrists and the colony solution for mental defectives. In: Freeman, Hugh L. (Hugh Lionel) and Berrios, G. E., (eds.) 150 Years of British Psychiatry, II: the Aftermath. London: Athlone, pp. 130-143. ISBN 9780485115062

1995

Thomson, Mathew (1995) Mental hygiene as an international movement. In: Weindling, Paul, (ed.) International health organisations and movements, 1918-1939. Cambridge history of medicine . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 283-304. ISBN 9780521450126

1993

Thomson, Mathew (1993) Social policy and the management of the problem of mental deficiency in inter-war London. The London Journal, Vol.18 (No.2). pp. 129-142. doi:10.1179/ldn.1993.18.2.129 ISSN 0305-8034.

Thomson, Mathew and Weindling, Paul (1993) Sterilisationspolitik in Grosbritannien und Deutchsland. In: Franz-Werner , Kersting and Teppe, Karl and Walter, Bernd, (eds.) Nach Hadamar : zum Verhältnis von Psychiatrie und Gesellschaft im 20. Jahrhundert. Forschungen zur Regionalgeschichte (7). Paderborn : Ferdinand Schöningh, pp. 137-149. ISBN 3506795783

1992

Thomson, Mathew (1992) Sterilization, segregation and community care : ideology and solutions to the problem of mental deficiency in inter-war Britain. History of Psychiatry, Vol.3 (No.12). pp. 473-498. doi:10.1177/0957154X9200301205 ISSN 0957-154X.