Witness seminars
What is a witness seminar?
A witness seminar is an oral history tool where those who experienced an event or historical period share their first-person accounts of it. From this, a transcript is produced which becomes an important historical reference document.
List of witness seminars
Click the links below to find out more about our previous witness seminars.
Future witness seminars
The History of Psychiatry Special Interest Group is keen to hold more witness seminars. Topics suggested so far include 'psychiatry in the 1970s' and 'the rise and fall of academic psychiatry'. If you would like to be involved, as a witness, organiser or helper, please get in touch by emailing archives@rcpsych.ac.uk.
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