Special HOPSIG meeting with support of LMA

The HOPSIG is delighted to announce a Special HOPSIG Meeting with support of LMA: 

“Reviewing the Past”

Medical History in the Archives.

at

London Metropolitan Archives

40 Northampton Road
London EC1R 0HB

Friday 9 December 2022

Morning: Chair Claire Hilton

10am: Archives open exclusively for meeting – Registration , Tea and Coffee

10.25am: Introduction

10.30am: Dr Peter Carpenter: “George Wallett – Rogue or entrepreneur” 

George Wallet is generally known as the doctor who followed Haslam in Bethlem and was dismissed for corruption. What is now known from archives is his involvement with 4 county and 2 private asylums as well as two other professions.

Dr Carpenter a retired psychiatrist and keen medical historian 

11.00am: Prof Nicol Ferrier: ‘Studying Mortality in Victorian Asylums’

Prof Ferrier talks about his PhD study on asylum archives. 

11.30am: Refreshment break 

11.50am Richard Johnson: Dr Hills and Norfolk County Asylum 

Richard Johnson is Project historian for the ‘Scaling up Change Minds’ project. He researched the history of Dr Hill and his therapeutic regime at Norfolk Asylum and his work led to the performance ‘Dr Hill’s Casebook’ on YouTube]

12.30pm: Francis Maunze – the College Archives 

12.40pm: Hospital Archivist – the LMA medical history collection – an overview

1pm: Lunch

1.45pm: tour of the archives 

and example archives with Hospital archivist available to answer questions about the LMA hospital collection

2.45pm: Panel discussion – revising past reputations – whose standards should we use?

Panel to be confirmed. 

3.30pm: review of day 

3.40pm: Close

4pm: building closes

Any special dietary needs must to given to us by 1 December. 

Please email sigs@rcpsych.ac.uk with details, using the subject heading 'Special HOPSIG meeting - 9 December - dietary needs'.