I am now writing up my thesis on the Mental Health of the British in Colonial India, 1900-47. I have twice visited the Central Institute of Psychiatry in Ranchi, northern India, to look at their archives from the period when it was the European Mental Hospital from its foundation in Read more
In September 2017, I am starting PhD research at the University of Manchester: Eva Luckes, Maker of Matrons: Was Luckes a maker of matrons and did she socially engineer a generation of hospital matrons? At the UKAHN Colloquium in Huddersfield, supported by a University of Huddersfield Centre for Health Histories Read more
In St Michael’s churchyard, Dumfries, where the poet Robert Burns is buried, another monument marks the burial place of over 420 people, who died from Asiatic Cholera, between September and November 1832. Cholera originated in India and first entered Britain in October 1831. Further epidemics occurred in 1848 and 1854. Read more
Today, it is difficult to imagine that this ‘Bar-Grill-Pub’ on Broad Street, Birmingham, today the hub of the city’s nightlife, was once described as ‘one of the very best sites that could possibly be selected within the Borough of Birmingham for the purpose of a Children’s Hospital’ (Reinarz, 2009, 79). Read more