Blog - Events

Last Thursday, we opened up after hours for Museums at Night 2013. We managed to squeeze a record number of visitors into the small space to...

Today and tomorrow, the Carnival of Emotions visits the Wonder Street Fair at the Barbican. The Street Fair is part of the Wonder Season, a Wellcome...

With thanks to Dr Erin Sullivan of the Shakespeare Institute for writing this guest blog post.The writer Samuel Johnson once said that Robert...

A recent international conference indicated the growing profile of the UCL Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines. The Centre aims...

It's already shaping up to be a good year for events and exhibitions in the history of psychiatry and psychology. First up is a conference at...

As we prepare to celebrate the New Year, we might wonder about the different uses of dance in modern and historical healthcare. In November...

This month, English Heritage launched a new web resource, Disability in Time and Place, a site which uses historic buildings to explore changing...

Concluding their current film series on Mental Health, Trauma and Rehabilitation, the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School...

The former West Riding Asylum in Wakefield, Yorkshire, was the site of the Asylum Science conference, about which we recently blogged. As has...

Last month, we travelled to several different archives and museums around the country to take part in events on asylum history. These included...

The new series of lectures at St Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum begins in October, and includes several events that should be of interest...

We've recently heard about an interesting event - and a new website and blog - devoted to "asylum science", with a particular focus on the nineteenth...