Events
“Reviewing the Past”, Medical History in the Archives
The event will take place at the London Metropolitan Archives (40 Northampton Road, London, EC1R 0HB) on Friday 9 December 2022
To find out more and book visit our events page.
2020 events
Understanding Death and Mortality in the Context of Mental Illness and Institutionalisation During the 19th and 20th Centuries
17-18 September 2020 at Newcastle University
2019 events
Mind, state and society 1960-2010: Half a century of UK psychiatry and mental health services
Tuesday 14 January 2020, 8:45am - 5:30pm
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London
A witness seminar on psychiatric hospitals in the 1960s, organised by RCPsych Archives together with HoPSIG
Date: Friday 11 October 2019
Venue: RCPsych, 21 Prescot Street, London, E1 8BB
For more information on witness seminars go to: What is a witness seminar?
Our guests – doctors, nurses, civil servants, and others – talked about their experiences of mental health services in the 1960s.
RCPsych International Congress 2019
The HoPSIG session was titled: Want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness”: making it better? Episodes in psychiatric practice, 1880-1980.
Date: Tuesday 02 July 2019, 4:50pm - 6:05pm
Venue: ExCel, London
March 2019
Aspects of the history of forensic psychiatry
The theme was Forensic psychiatry. Speakers were:
Professor John Gunn- Trick-cycling through the Underworld: An overview of 50 years of academic forensic psychiatry by an emeritus professor of forensic psychiatry
Dr Harvey Gordon- The interface between general and forensic psychiatry: An historical perspective: Bethlem, Broadmoor and the local asylums in the nineteenth century
Ms Alison Pedley- ‘She looked very wild, no doubt she was insane’: Maternal-child murder, Criminal Lunacy and the Asylum in nineteenth-century England.
Medical student / Junior doctor presentations:
Dr Claire Veldmeijer- A historical overview of admissions to Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, 1863-1867
Ms Jimena Seara Prieto- Psychiatry and the Third Reich
Event programme (PDF)
2018 events
September 2018
Scotland and beyond: New research on the history of psychiatry in Scotland and internationally, Glasgow
March 2018
So you want to do some history? Taking forward the HoPSIG research agenda: an oral history of UK psychiatry, c.1970
- Handout: Taking a history and researching history: get your methodology right! (doc)
- Also, please see under future events: a ‘Witness seminar’ in October 2019 is our current oral history project, inspired by discussions at this meeting.
2017 events
October 2017
- Programme & abstracts (PDF)
- Presentation by Peter Carpenter: 'Avon and the Evolution of Mental Health Care' (PDF)
International Congress 2017
March 2017
2016 events
November 2016:
“Mind, madness and melancholia: Ideas and institutions in psychiatry from classical antiquity to the present” - joint meeting between HoPSIG and the Royal Society of Medicine Psychiatry Section, 10 May 2016
- Abstracts (doc)
March 2016
- Abstracts (doc)