About this event
- Date and time Thu 8 Jun 2023 from 3:00pm to 12:00pm
- Location Buckfast Abbey
- Organised by History of Medicine Society
Buckfast Abbey, in Devon, dates from 1018 but was dissolved in 1539 and rebuilt by monks between 1907 and 1938. A conference centre now forms part of the complex. Find out more about Buckfast Abbey.
Join us for a three-day visit, staying at Northgate House Hotel on the conference site, for a series of talks on medical history and other topics, delivered in the adjoining centre.
Included in the visit are talks, luncheons and dinners, a ride on the historic Dartmouth Steam Railway and ferry across the river at Dartmouth for supper, and a musical evening in the Benedictine Buckfast Abbey.
Directions to the Buckfast Abbey Conference Centre.
Please book accommodation separately; rooms are reserved at Northgate House Hotel (per room, B&B: £89 for double occupancy / £79 single). To book, email: accommodation@buckfast.org.uk and quote History of Medicine. Ample parking is available. Other local accommodation is available if preferred.
Menus for dinners at Northgate Hotel (Thursday), the restaurant in Dartmouth (Friday) and the conference centre (Saturday) will be circulated in advance and require pre-booking, noting dietary requirements please. Drinks and tips not included.
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Agenda
Thursday 8 June 2023
Welcome tea and coffee
Refreshments will be available in the Dart View 1 function room in the Conference Centre
Introduction and Devon and its Medicine
Christopher Gardner-Thorpe will introduce the programme and deliver a paper on 'Devon and its Medicine'
Dinner at the Northgate Hotel
Please order and pay for your own drinks
Friday 9 June 2023
Conference Centre Dart View 1 Room
Possi & Bossi - are gynaecologists particularly at risk of assassination?
Professor Sean Hughes and Dr Mike Collins
Detective cameras
Dr Richard Lansdown
Tea and coffee break
Dr Henry Graves Bull (1818-1885) Physician, Naturalist & Philanthropist
Dr Henry Connor
Buffet lunch in the conference centre
Coach to Paigton Railway
Coach will depart promptly from outside the conference centre
Depart Paignton Station on the historic Steam Railway
You may like to explore Kingswear then take the 5 minute passenger ferry over to Dartmouth. There is a regular service but waiting times vary.
Dinner at Kendricks Restaurant in Dartmouth
29 Fairfax Place TQ6 9AB
One street back from the quay side close to the ferry landing site
Please order and pay for your own drinks
Coach pick up to return to the hotel
Saturday 10 June 2023
Conference Centre Dart View 1 Room
The family of Oscar Wilde
Dr Mike Collins
A tale of two physicians
Dr Anjna Harrar
Tea and coffee break
The legend of the Lady of the Lake
Professor Rosalie David
The doctors page
Professor David Radstone
Buffet lunch in the conference centre
Socialising and free time
Socialise with other delegates or visit one of the many local attractions
Dinner at the Northgate Hotel
2 course dinner
Concert at Benedictine Buckfast Abbey
Alvington Singers musical concert performing an eclectic range of works spanning the 16th-21st centuries
Sunday 11 June 2023
High mass in the Abbey with music
Location
Buckfast Abbey
Registration for this event will close at 1:00am on 25 May 2023. Late registrations will not be accepted.
Disclaimer:
- The agenda is subject to change at any time
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