Stories
- Article
Picturing mental health
Ron Hampshire created artworks while resident at Netherne psychiatric hospital. What can we learn from them?
- Article
Louis Wain’s cryptic cats
Once famous for his quirky cat illustrations, today Louis Wain is often portrayed as a ‘psychotic’ artist whose illness can be mapped out through his drawings. Here Bryony Benge-Abbott takes a more rounded view.
- Article
Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
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Coasting to catastrophe
In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.
Catalogue
- Videos
Sectioned and Mental: A History of the Madhouse.
Date: 2010- Audio
- Online
Auditorium : an audio medical magazine for hospital doctors. Vol.11, no.6.
Date: 1985- Audio
Auditorium : an audio medical magazine for hospital doctors. Vol.11, no.6.
Date: 1985- Digital Images
- Online
Ward for men, a mental hosptial in Britain.
- Digital Images
- Online
Ward for women, a mental hosptial in Britain.