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Forgotten Women in Psychiatry: Jessie Murray (1867-1920)
Dr Gordon Bates, the College's Historian in Residence writes about the achievements of Jessie Margaret Murry.
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Wills: should we destroy them?
Dr Peter Carpenter discusses the government's plans to digitise and destroy the physical copies of wills more than 25 years old.
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January, the Past and Fresh Starts
Dr Gordon Bates, the College's Historian in Residence discusses the role of RCPsych Historian in Residence.
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A mysterious diagnosis in 1920…
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence discusses the case of Katherine Armstrong in 1920, which inspired Agatha Christie and the Dandelion Poisoner.
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Through the decades: A deep dive through 75 years of NHS history
From the National Health Service Act to the recent election of Dr Lade Smith as the College’s newest President, we explore the history of psychiatry within the NHS and its ...
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Liverpool and the Power of Suggestion: Alfred Betts Taplin and the Psycho-Therapeutic Institute
Dr Gordon Bates discusses the history of psychotherapeutics in Liverpool, including the Liverpool Psycho-Therapeutic Institution (LPI) and Alfred Betts Taplin.
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Francis Galton: Narrative of an explorer in the human sciences
In the context of the College's exhibition on the legacies of eugenics, John Hall summarises the life and work of Francis Galton who coined the term eugenics.
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Beyond the Lunatic Asylum of the Nineteenth Century – Its Legacy, My Family, and the Madness Within
In the context of the College's exhibition on the legacies of eugenics, Lisa Edwards discusses the diagnoses of previous generations of her family and how those diagnoses and the contemporary ...
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100 years ago: The opening of the Maudsley Hospital, 31 January 1923
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence discusses the founding of the Maudsley Hospital.
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Differential fertility? - British psychiatrists and the unscientific basis of a eugenic ideology (1910-1969)
Dr Graham Ash and Dr John Mason discuss the unscientific concept of differential fertility that underpinned eugenic ideologies in the twentieth century.
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1926: History, psychiatry and Agatha Christie
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence and Prof Edgar Jones discuss the temporary disappearance of famous crime writer Agatha Christie in 1926.
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Exploring the Legacies of Eugenics in Psychiatry – Part II
Professor Marius Turda, who has loaned the RCPsych the exhibition "We Are Not Alone": Legacies of Eugenics, discusses the complicated relationship between eugenics and psychiatry during the first half of ...
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