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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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"Petty tyranny and soulless discipline”: Lunatic asylums in the headlines 100 years ago
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence, and Dr Clare Groves discuss asylums 100 years ago.
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What happened 180 years ago?
A blog post about what the world was like at the time the RCPsych was founded.
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Some historical perspectives on suicide, 60 years after the Suicide Act: what I wished I had known as a young psychiatrist
Dr Lisetta Lovett reflects on how attitudes to suicide have changed over time.
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Friends of the College Archives: Bridging the gap between the two History of Psychiatry Special Interest Groups
A blog post about the achievements of the Friends of the College Archive group, which existed from 2008 - 2015 between two iterations of the History of Psychiatry Special Interest ...
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Wikipedia, who’s really editing our favourite source?
A blog post about what it's like to edit Wikipedia and the positive and negative aspects of the largest reference source on the internet being an open collaboration.
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Reforming mental health law: learning from the past
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence, discusses some aspects of the current White Paper on Mental Health Act reform, in light of events a century ago...
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Latin lesson to inspire us today
Why it's important to record how mental healthcare is delivered and experienced now, for future generations.
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Women psychiatrists, 100 years ago by Dr Claire Hilton
Dr Claire Hilton the College's Historian in Residence discusses women in psychiatry a hundred years ago.
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What is the RCPsych Roll of Honour?
A blog post about the RCPsych roll of honour an online publication of office holders of the College since 1971, and people who have achieved excellence in their work in ...
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90 years ago: the Mental Treatment Act 1930 by Dr Claire Hilton
A blog post looking back on the introduction of the Mental Health Treatment Act 1930.
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Literature Searching: the Good, the Bad and the Epic Failures
A blog post about literature searching and how it can go dramatically wrong!
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A quick look at online archive resources on the history of the College
A blog post about the archive resources available to those researching the history of the College.
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Some notes for A House Through Time, BBC 2, Tuesday 2 June 2020, 9pm by Dr Claire Hilton
A blog post to complement the episode of A House Through Time, airing on BBC2 on the 2nd of June, 2020. Giving more information about mental health of William Henry ...
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