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Beyond the Lunatic Asylum of the Nineteenth Century – Its Legacy, My Family, and the Madness Within
In the context of the College's exhibition on the legacies of eugenics, Lisa Edwards discusses the diagnoses of previous generations of her family and how those diagnoses and the contemporary ...
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100 years ago: The opening of the Maudsley Hospital, 31 January 1923
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence discusses the founding of the Maudsley Hospital.
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Differential fertility? - British psychiatrists and the unscientific basis of a eugenic ideology (1910-1969)
Dr Graham Ash and Dr John Mason discuss the unscientific concept of differential fertility that underpinned eugenic ideologies in the twentieth century.
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1926: History, psychiatry and Agatha Christie
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence and Prof Edgar Jones discuss the temporary disappearance of famous crime writer Agatha Christie in 1926.
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Exploring the Legacies of Eugenics in Psychiatry – Part II
Professor Marius Turda, who has loaned the RCPsych the exhibition "We Are Not Alone": Legacies of Eugenics, discusses the complicated relationship between eugenics and psychiatry during the first half of ...
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Exploring the Legacies of Eugenics in Psychiatry – Part I
Prof Marius Turda, who has loaned the RCPsych the exhibition "We Are Not Alone": Legacies of Eugenics, discusses the complicated relationship between eugenics and psychiatry during the first half of ...
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“Old Problems, New Solutions” to admitting patients out of area
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence, discusses the long history of inappropriate out of area placements.
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Out goes the silverware display, in comes the History Wall
Francis Maunze, the College Archivist, discusses the changing display in Prescot Street from the silverware collection to the new History Wall.
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Dr John Conolly's 228th birthday: compassion in psychiatric care
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence, discusses unveiling of the new English Heritage blue plaque to Dr John Conolly on the site of Hanwell Asylum.
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Hot cross buns on Good Friday – then and now
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence, discusses the rising cost of inpatient care in the early 1920s and reflects on how that compares to our current funding landscape....
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International Women's Day: Dr Elizabeth Casson, 100 years on
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence, discusses the psychiatrist Dr Elizabeth Casson (1881-1954) and her pioneering use of occupational therapy.
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Pauper lunatics were not paupers
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence, discusses the term pauper lunatic and how stigmatising language affects care.
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'A curious dance round a curious tree': Charles Dickens’ visit to a mental hospital, Christmas 1851
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence, discusses Charles Dickens' 'A curious dance around a curious tree,' which records his visit to St Luke's asylum at Christmas.
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From gaslighting to electricity, to gaslighting and social media
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence, discusses the history of gas lighting in asylums and gaslighting in the more modern sense of emotional manipulation.
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Asylums and cricket: the gentleman’s game
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence, discusses asylum cricket pitches.
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Water towers: icons of the asylums and mental hospitals
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence, discusses asylum water towers.
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Asylum chapels: an uncanny sense of déjà vu?
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence, discusses her trips to visit some Victorian and Edwardian asylum chapels.
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Even in death, patients and staff were never quite equal: exploring asylum cemeteries
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence, discusses her trips to visit some Victorian and Edwardian asylum cemeteries.
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Where have all the asylums gone?
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence, discusses her trips to visit some Victorian and Edwardian Asylums and offers advice on how to study the history of these sites ...
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Compiling the shortlist for the Future Archives competition
Claire Hilton and Mohamed Ibrahim discuss how they reached the shortlist for the 2021 Future Archives competition.
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