About HoPSIG
- Raise awareness of the value of understanding the history of psychiatry.
- Encourage research into the history of psychiatry, including the history of the RCPsych.
- Be a forum for psychiatrists wishing to research HoP, to find others with shared interests and to discuss research ideas and work in progress.
- Facilitate networking with academic historians.
- Welcome non-College members who are interested in HoP, including people with medical and non-medical backgrounds.
- Keep people informed via a webpage and newsletter.
- Organise workshops and conferences about the history of psychiatry, including about historical methodology and resources.
- Organise history sessions at annual International Congress, and with Faculties and Divisions.
- Liaise with, and support, the RCPsych archives department, e.g. producing exhibitions, introducing online systems to facilitate archive access.
Graham Ash – Interim Chair & Hon. Archivist
Peter Carpenter – Finance Officer
Francis Maunze – Archivist
Lydia Thurston – Newsletter Editor
Tom Stephenson – Hon. Seretary & Twitter Manager
Claire Hilton – Historian in Residence
Fiona Watson – Library and Archives Manager
Nicol Ferrier – Newsletter Editor
Alistair Hobson
Rachel Jenkins
Lydia Thurston – Trainee, Newsletter Deputy Editor
John Mason
Ibrahim Mohammed – Trainee
Mutahira Qureshi – Trainee, Newsletter Assistant Editor
Alistair Robson
Angela Rouncefield
Kelsey Hentschel – Team Administrator/PA to the Registrar and Treasurer
If you would like to contribute to the website please contact Claire Hilton.
Please see under ‘Newsletters’ if you would like to write for our newsletter.
We are also on twitter @rcpsychHoPSIG