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Inside the asylum

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Library Insights talk in the Viewing Room, Thomas SG Farnetti. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

What you’ll do

Join Dr Louise Hide as we lift the covers of patient casebooks and doctors’ reports to catch sight of daily life inside the wards and corridors of a late-19th-century lunatic asylum. There will be a chance to ask questions at the end of the talk.

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Location

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.

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About your speaker

Photographic black and white, head and shoulders portrait of Dr Louise Hide.

Louise Hide

Dr Louise Hide is a social and cultural historian of psychiatry. She is the Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in Medical Humanities and Social Sciences at Birkbeck, University of London.