Name: Medical Involvement in the Early Modern Slave Trade
Location: Wellcome Collection

Come and hear Dr Lori Jones discuss how her research on plague led her to a unique discovery in our collections. We’ll look at how finding plague in a single Wellcome manuscript has evolved into an entirely new research project about the personalisation of medical knowledge in the past. Following her paper, there will be an opportunity for you to discuss her ideas.

Dr Lori Jones is currently funded with a Wellcome Research Bursary and will begin a post-doctoral fellowship in Carleton University’s Department of History (Ottawa, Canada) in 2019. 

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Lori Jones

Speaker

Seminar

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Researcher talk in the Viewing Room

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We’ll be in the Viewing Room. It’s next to the Library entrance on level 2, which you can reach by taking the lift or the stairs.

Viewing Room

Spaces are first come, first served and may run out if we are busy so you may wish to arrive early. If you have any access requests or requirements, email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call 020 7611 2222.

Limited spaces available

Hear from Dr Lori Jones about how her research into plague outbreaks has been informed by our medieval collections.

Hear from people who have researched our collections, as they share their discoveries. They'll draw on examples from our collections to relate the stories that they've uncovered. And you’ll have a chance to ask them questions afterwards.

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Exploring Research

Looking for Plague

Come and hear Dr Emma Spary discuss her research on the often-overlooked role of priests in the history of pharmacy.  Beginning with a Wellcome manuscript, she will explore the growth of pharmaceutical enterprise in Louis XIV’s Paris and how religious orders produced and used medicinal drugs. Following her paper there will be an opportunity for you to discuss her ideas.

Dr Emma Spary is Reader in the History of Modern European Knowledge at the University of Cambridge. Her recent books include Eating the Enlightenment (2012) and Feeding France (2014).

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Emma Spary

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Exploring Research event

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Come and hear Dr Emma Spary discuss her research on the often- overlooked role of priests in the history of pharmacy.

Priests and Drugs in 17th-Century Paris

Come and hear Dr Katherine Harvey discuss her research on parasites in medieval Europe. Beginning with a Wellcome manuscript, she will explore medical theories and treatments, and uncover medieval attitudes to nits, lice and worms. Following her paper there will be an opportunity for you to discuss her ideas. 

Dr Katherine Harvey is a medieval historian based at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of ‘Episcopal Appointments in England, c. 1214–c. 1344’ (Ashgate, 2014), and is currently writing books on the medieval episcopal body (for OUP) and medieval sex (for Reaktion).

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Katherine Harvey

@keharvey2013 on Twitter

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There will be an induction loop at this event for visitors with hearing aids. 

Hearing loop

Booking a ticket for a free event does not guarantee a place on the day. Doors usually open 15 minutes before an event starts and we advise arriving before the scheduled start time to claim a place. We hold some spaces for people with access requirements. If you have any access requests or requirements, email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call 020 7611 2222.

First come, first served

Hear Dr Katherine Harvey discuss her research on parasites in medieval Europe, uncovering medieval attitudes to nits, lice and worms.

Parasites in Medieval Europe

Come and hear Dr Elsa Richardson discuss her research into Eustace Hamilton Miles, an Edwardian health guru. Using Wellcome books and pamphlets, she will uncover the life of this forgotten pioneer of dietary reform and physical culture. Following her paper there will be an opportunity for you to discuss her ideas. 

Elsa Richardson is a Chancellor’s Fellow in the History of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Strathclyde. Her research examines histories of nutrition, vegetarianism, other alternative dietary cultures, mental stress and gastric disorders in late-19th and early-20th-century Britain. 

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Elsa Richardson

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Elsa Richardson in Locavore, Glasgow

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Hear Dr Elsa Richardson discuss her research on an Edwardian health guru and forgotten pioneer of dietary reform and physical culture.

Self-Help and Health Food in Edwardian London

Come and hear Dr Emma Purce discuss her research on freak shows and British seaside culture between 1900 and 1950. Using Wellcome ephemera and health texts, she will explore changes and continuities between Victorian shows and 20th-century seaside entertainments. Following her paper there will be an opportunity for you to discuss her ideas.

Emma completed her Wellcome Trust-funded PhD in December 2017. She is currently an Associate Lecturer in the School of History at University of Kent.

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Emma Purce

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Come and hear Dr Emma Purce discuss her research on freak shows and British seaside culture between 1900 and 1950.

Freak Shows, Seaside Resorts and 20th-century British Culture

Join us to mark 50 years since the publication of psychiatrist John Bowlby’s landmark book, ‘Attachment’. Hear Dr Robbie Duschinsky discuss his research on the differences between Bowlby’s public persona and private reflections. He will explore Bowlby’s ideas on the psychology of trauma and abuse, and the reason why many of these remained unpublished during Bowlby’s lifetime. Following his paper there will be an opportunity for you to discuss his ideas.

Dr Robbie Duschinsky is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and Director of Studies at Sidney Sussex College. With Kate White, he is co-editor of a forthcoming selection of finished but unpublished papers by Bowlby, entitled ‘Trauma and Loss: Key Texts from the John Bowlby Archive’.

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Dr Robbie Duschinsky

Robbie Duschinsky

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Dr Robbie Duschinsky with the psychiatrist John Bowlby’s archive

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Join us to mark 50 years since the publication of psychiatrist John Bowlby’s landmark book, ‘Attachment’, with a talk from Dr Robbie Duschinsky on Bowlby’s private and public personas.

John Bowlby in Public and in Private

Come and hear Dr Caroline Rusterholz discuss her research on the history of the London and Birmingham Brook Advisory Centres in the 1960s and 1970s. Beginning with a leaflet from the Brook archive, she will explore the work of the clinics and the material they published. In doing so she will uncover public and institutional attitudes to youth sexuality. Following her paper there will be an opportunity for you to discuss her ideas.

Dr Caroline Rusterholz is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

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Dr Caroline Rusterholz

Caroline Rusterholz

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Come and hear Dr Caroline Rusterholz discuss her research on the history of the Brook Advisory Centres in the 1960s and 1970s.

Teens and Sex, the History of Brook Advisory Centres

Hear about Asylum, “the magazine for democratic psychiatry”, and consider its historical context as well as its research significance and potential from a range of perspectives. In particular, this event will explore survivor voices, action and critique, and their importance to studies of the recent history of mental health provision in the UK. Following presentations from our speakers, there will be an opportunity to discuss their ideas.

Helen Spandler is Professor of Mental Health Studies at the University of Central Lancashire and recently held a Wellcome Research bursary to explore the back catalogue of Asylum, the radical mental health magazine. 

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Helen Spandler

Researcher

Anne Plumb is a grassroots survivor historian and member of the Survivors History Group. She has her own personal archive called ‘Ear to the Ground. Survivor and ally voices: organisation and action'.

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Anne Plumb

Tony Baldwinson is a project manager and a non-disabled volunteer at the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, involved in the GMCDP Archive since the early 2000s and interested in radical mental health practices.

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Tony Baldwinson

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Viewing Room event

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Hear about Asylum, “the magazine for democratic psychiatry”, and consider its historical context and research significance and potential from a range of perspectives.

Voices of Democratic Psychiatry

Come and hear Dr Richard Williams discuss his research on music and sound in Mughal India. Examining a series of Hindi manuscripts in the Wellcome Collection – from poetry treatises to divination manuals – he will ask what it means to listen to silent archives, and explore what we can learn about Mughal conceptions of sound and listening.

Following our speaker’s presentation, there will be an opportunity to discuss his ideas.

Dr Richard Williams is Lecturer in Ethnomusicology in the School of Arts at SOAS University of London. He is currently finalising his first monograph, on the circulation of musicians, genres and musicologists between upper India and Bengal between c.1750 and 1900. In connection to this project, he has written on Bengali-language musicology, the performance repertoires of courtesans, and sound arts in Shi’ah Islam.

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Richard Williams

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Dr Richard Williams

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Come and hear Dr Richard Williams discuss his research on music and sound in Mughal India.

Listening to Hindi Manuscripts

Hear about the Egyptian Society, the first of its kind, which emerged during the 18th century as interest in antiquarian study peaked. Using correspondence held in Wellcome Collection, Professor Anna Marie Roos will argue that the society can be seen as much more than the drinking club it is sometimes portrayed as, but rather as a group that promoted the development of early archaeology and early modern antiquarianism.

Following presentations from our speaker, there will be an opportunity to discuss her ideas.

Professor Anna Marie Roos is Professor of the History of Science and Medicine, University of Lincoln, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. She publishes not only as a professional historian but also as an advisor to taxonomists. Her scientific and historical work has been featured in Nature News, Wellcome History, the Guardian and the New York Times, and has received the John Thackray Medal.

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Anna Marie Roos

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Professor Anna Marie Roos

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Hear about the Egyptian Society, the first of its kind, which emerged during the 18th century as interest in antiquarian study peaked.

The First Antiquarian Egyptian Society

Hear Dr Joanne Edge discuss how physicians in the later Middle Ages predicted the outcomes of illnesses: when and whether sufferers would die, recover or decline. Using manuscripts in Wellcome Collection, Dr Edge will reflect on the ethically fraught issue of prognosis that continues to affect medical practitioners and patients today.

Following the presentation from our speaker there will be an opportunity to discuss her ideas.

Dr Joanne Edge is a historian who specialises in late-medieval and early modern European social and cultural history, with an emphasis on medicine and the ‘occult’ sciences: divination, magic and astrology. She has previously worked as Assistant Editor on the Wellcome-funded Casebooks Project at the University of Cambridge and is currently Latin Manuscripts Cataloguer at the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester. Her first book, ‘Numerological Divination in Late Medieval England’, is under contract with Boydell and Brewer.

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Joanne Edge

@hagenilda

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Dr Joanne Edge

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Hear Dr Joanne Edge discuss how physicians in the later Middle Ages predicted when and whether sick people would die, recover or decline.

Predicting Life and Death in the Later Middle Ages

Hear Dr Kathleen Walker-Meikle discuss how early modern people – and their animals – suffered from itching and scabs on their bodies. Using a range of Wellcome manuscripts and early printed books, she will examine how mange and scabies were understood as internally caused diseases that manifested themselves on the skin.

Following presentations from our speakers, there will be an opportunity to discuss their ideas.

Dr Kathleen Walker-Meikle is Research Fellow on the Wellcome Trust-funded ‘Renaissance Skin: 1450–1700’ project at King’s College London. Her research interests include medicine, natural history and magic, concentrating particularly on the relationship between animals and humans.

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Dr Kathleen Walker-Meikle

Kathleen Walker-Meikle

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Explore evidence of how, in the early modern period, people believed itchy skin diseases were caused internally, but manifested themselves on the skin.

Itching Without End in the Early Modern Period

Hear Tessa Storey discuss the ‘Regimen Sanitatis’, a manuscript published by the famous medieval medical school of Salerno. The preface suggests that its authors intended their medical advice to reach a wide audience. Using a copy of the text held in Wellcome Collection, this talk will explore how vernacular medical knowledge was spread among ‘ordinary people’ in early modern Italy.

Following the presentation from our speaker, there will be an opportunity to discuss her ideas.

Dr Tessa Storey’s books include ‘Carnal Commerce in Counter-Reformation Rome’, on the social, economic and material culture of prostitution; ‘Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy’ a prize-winning monograph co-authored with Sandra Cavallo; and ‘Conserving Health in Early Modern Culture’, a co-edited volume of essays. Storey is currently an independent scholar and is exploring the circulation of medical knowledge in early modern Italy, with a particular focus on the dissemination of preventive health ideas through cheap, ‘popular’ printed texts.

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Tessa Storey

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Portrait of Tessa Storey

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Using the ‘Regimen Sanitatis’, published by the famous medieval medical school of Salerno, this talk will explore how vernacular medical knowledge was spread among ordinary people in early modern Italy.

Bringing Health Advice to a Wider Public

This talk will explore the relationship between playing and health through the paediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott’s compelling accounts of the origins of creativity in a baby’s first experiences.

During his illustrious career Winnicott worked with an estimated 60,000 mother-infant couples. He was the creator of the squiggle game, a therapeutic exchange in which the doctor and child take it in turns to modify a squiggle drawing. Winnicott’s theories of child development have become established across the world. 

After the talk, you’ll have the opportunity to look at some key documents from the archives and ask questions.

Robert Ades is Assistant Editor of ‘The Collected Works of D W Winnicott’ and the Editor of its final volume. 

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Portrait of Robert Adès

Robert Ades

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Hear a talk about the relationship between playing and health, focusing on psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott’s accounts of the origins of creativity in a baby’s early life.

Playing at Creating Reality

Dr Katherine Hubbard will discuss her research on Margaret Lowenfeld (1890–1973), a pioneering child psychotherapist and all-round unique woman. Find out more about the life and love(r)s of this fascinating figure. 

As part of her research, Dr Hubbard has been exploring the Lowenfeld archives at Wellcome Collection. After the talk, you’ll have the opportunity to look at some key documents from the archives and ask questions.

Dr Katherine Hubbard is a feminist academic at the University of Surrey. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on gender, sexuality and the history of psychology. Her current Wellcome Trust-funded project is entitled: ‘Dear Margaret: The interconnected lives and work of queer women in 20th-century British social science’.

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Katherine Hubbard

Dr Katherine Hubbard

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Find out about the life and love(r)s of pioneering 20th-century child psychotherapist Margaret Lowenfeld.

The Queer World of Margaret Lowenfeld

Hear Dr Sigrid Vertommen discuss her research on women’s roles in “reproductive labour” in the global fertility industry as she explores the boundaries between gift-commodity, motherhood-work and altruism-profit in the fertility industry.  

Over the past two decades, surrogate pregnancy has transformed from a small-scale activity into a booming 30-billion-dollar “baby business”. Women, overwhelmingly from the global South and East, are recruited as egg-cell providers or surrogates to provide the “gift of life” to intended parents. 

The talk will draw on archival material and ephemera from Wellcome Collection’s library, such as promotional material from The Fertility Show. After the talk, you’ll have the opportunity to look at some key documents from the archives and ask questions.

Dr Sigrid Vertommen is a research fellow at the Department of Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University, and an affiliated scholar at the Sociology of Reproduction Research Group of the University of Cambridge. Her work explores the global politics of (assisted) reproduction, with a focus on transnational surrogacy between Israel/Palestine and Georgia. She is also a feminist and slow science organiser.

Dr Sigrid Vertommen

Hear Dr Sigrid Vertommen discuss her research on women’s roles in “reproductive labour” in the 30-billion-dollar global fertility industry. After the talk you’ll have the opportunity to look at key documents from Wellcome Collection’s archives and ask questions.

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