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Historical Responses to Mental Illness and Disability

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Public engagement activities linked to this theme include i) a range of media work (e.g. Andrews is chief historical consultant on a Seneca productions docu-drama on Bedlam’s history; and spoke on the same subject on BBC Three Counties Radio (7 June 2008); and contributed an analysis of the lunatic keeper to a live-show edition of ‘Who Do You Think You Are’ at the London Olympia on 3 May 2008); ii) contributions to popular lecture series (e.g. Andrews presented a lecture in 2007 before the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society on ‘Prevailing Representations of Female Madness in Georgian England’); and iii) the setting up of one-off lectures and cafés scientifiques/a programme of lectures on the history of mental illness, possibly linked to PEALs at Newcastle University, or else to the Newcastle medical school (e.g. van der Eijk has been presenting public lectures on ‘Body, Mind and Spirit in Classical Thought’ at the Newcastle General Hospital, the Newcastle Philosophical Society and the Royal College of Psychiatrists, London; and Andrews is lecturing on the history of psychiatry to American psychology students as part of a British Studies programme in Edinburgh in July 2008).