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'A curious dance round a curious tree': Charles Dickens’ visit to a mental hospital, Christmas 1851
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence, discusses Charles Dickens' 'A curious dance around a curious tree,' which records his visit to St Luke's asylum at Christmas.
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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 ...
Library and archives team
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