About this event

  • Date and time Thu 16 Nov 2023 from 10:45am to 12:45pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Senior Fellows Forum

Join us for this lecture by Dr Claire Hilton to challenge stereotypes we may have about mental hospitals in England a century ago and provoke debate about mental health services today. Some important themes include innovation, “after-care”, gender, scandals, and the challenges encountered by those people within and outside the medical profession who fought to achieve improvements. Based on research currently in progress, it is not possible yet to be more precise about content.

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Key speakers

Dr Claire Hilton

Dr Claire Hilton

Historian in Residence (honorary post) at the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Speaker's biography

Dr Claire is a Historian in Residence (an honorary post) at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and provides history of psychiatry content and context for the College and other organisations, including the media, and individual researchers. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London.

Previously an NHS consultant old age psychiatrist (1998-2017), her MA and PhD are in history. She has authored two open-access monographs Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People: Barbara Robb's Campaign 1965-1975 (2017) and Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War: A Study of Austerity on London's Fringe  (2021). Her current research is on mental hospitals in England and Wales in the 1920s.

Agenda

View the programme (In person)

Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Dr Jane Reeback, Intramural Events Organiser, Senior Fellows Forum, Royal Society of Medicine

To be crippled for lack of means is not economy: Hospitals and their mentally ill patients in austerity, 1920s style

Dr Claire Hilton, Historian in Residence (honorary post), Royal College of Psychiatrists

Questions and answers
Close of meeting

Followed by lunch for those who have pre-registered

View the programme (Virtual)

Welcome and introduction

Dr Jane Reeback, Intramural Events Organiser, Senior Fellows Forum, Royal Society of Medicine

To be crippled for lack of means is not economy: Hospitals and their mentally ill patients in austerity, 1920s style

Dr Claire Hilton, Historian in Residence (honorary post, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Questions and answers
Close of meeting

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Disclaimers:

Registration for this event will close on 15 November 2023 at 1:00am (GMT). Late registrations will not be accepted.

The agenda is subject to change at any time

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