"King Billy". The first album from Aberystwyth band The Lowland Hundred features a song called "The Air Loom", which references the affair. The game Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs from 2013 makes several references to both James Tilly Matthews, the Air Loom and Bedlam. Avant-garde black metal band Denizens released a 2013 EP titled On The Origins of the Influencing Machine directly referencing Matthews. See also Influencing Machine Mind control Persecutory delusion References Further reading Jonathan Andrews, "Haslam, John (bap. 1764, d. 1844)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Carpenter, P.K., "Descriptions of Schizophrenia in the Psychiatry of Georgian Britain: John Haslam and James Tilly Matthews", Comprehensive Psychiatry, 30 (4), 332–338. 1989. Gere, C., "The technologies and politics of delusion: an interview with artist Rod Dickinson", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Vol.35, No.2, (June 2004), pp. 333–349. Haslam, J., Illustrations of Madness: Exhibiting a Singular Case of Insanity, and No Less Remarkable Difference of Medical Opinion: Developing the Nature of An Assailment, and the Manner of Working Events; with a Description of the Tortures Experienced by Bomb-Bursting, Lobster-Cracking, and Lengthening the Brain, etc., G. Hayden, (London), 1810. Howard, R., "James Tilly Matthews in London and Paris 1793: His First Peace Mission — in His Own Words", History of Psychiatry, Vol.2, No.5, (March 1991), pp. 53–69. Howard, R., "Useful or useless architecture? A dimension of the relationship between the Georgian schizophrenic James Tilly Matthews and his doctor, John Haslam", Psychiatric Bulletin, Vol.14, No.10, (October 1990), pp. 620–622. Jay, M., The Air Loom Gang, Bantam Press, (London), 2003. Jay, M., "The Shadow of the Air Loom", Fortean Times, No.220, (March 2007), pp. 52–54. Matthews, J.T., Useful Architecture, S. Bass, (London), 1812. Pilkington, M., "The Air Loom", Fortean Times, No.170, (May 2003), pp. 40–43. Porter, R., "Reason, Madness, and the French Revolution", Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture, Vol.20, (1991), pp. 55–79. Suzuki, A., "My own private England – the madness of James Tilly Matthews and of his times", History of Psychiatry, (December 2005), Vo.16, No.4, pp. 497–502. Trotter, David. Paranoid Modernism: Literary Experiment, Psychosis, and the Professionalization of English Society, Oxford University Press, (Oxford), 2001. Williams, D., "The Missions of David Williams and James Tilly Matthews to England (1793)", The English Historical Review, Vol.53, No.212, (October 1938), pp. 651–668. 1770 births 1815 deaths English businesspeople History