Project Description
The Study Day showcased alternative ways of taking ownership and representing mental health history to uncover positive and alternative futures for those using services today.
Morning session workshops:
Organising an Archive on Mad People’s History
Geoffrey Reaume, University of Toronto
Creating an Artwork for Whittingham: Using Archives as Creative Inspiration
Artist Kate Eggleston-Wirtz and RB Cornwell, Railway Expert
Caring for the Whittingham Archive
Led by staff from Lancashire Archives
Afternoon Speakers & Subjects:
Welcome Words & Introductions to Whittingham Hospital
Mick McKeown, University of Central Lancashire School of Nursing
Heather Tierney-Moore, OBE, Chief Executive, Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Kathryn Newman, Archivist, Lancashire Archives
Preserving & Promoting Mad People’s History
Geoffrey Reaume, York University, Toronto
Breakout Sessions:
Whittingham, Malaria Treatment and Ethics
Graham Ash, Whittingham Lives & Natalie Mullen, University of Lancaster
Whittingham Wardrobes: Clothing as Narrative in Remembering and Forgetting
Carole Hunt & Alex Hurst, University of Central Lancashire School of Art & Design with Liz Lewis, Whittingham Lives Volunteer
Organising the National Asylum Workers Union
Mick McKeown, University of Central Lancashire School of Nursing
The Psychiatric (Mis)treatment of Lesbians and Bisexual Women in the UK (1952-1992)
Helen Spandler, Asylum Magazine & University of Central Lancashire
Breakout Sessions:
After Whitchurch Project
Elaine Paton
Whittingham Railway
David Hindle, Preston Historical Society
Patient Autonomy in the 19th Century
Natalie Mullen, University of Lancaster
An Abridged History of the Management of Whittingham Asylum, 1873-1995
David Keddie, Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust