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In November 2011 Jeremy Boulton and Jonathan Andrews contributed to an episode of Channel 4’s Time Team Programme, hosted by Tony Robinson, on the excavations of the old Bethlem churchyard and the wider history of Bethlem, lunacy and death, which is being broadcast in March/April 2012. Details of the excavations can be found at the links below:


thehistoryblog.com
crossrail.co.uk
archaeology.co.uk

Jonathan Andrews was 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).  Andrews also 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.


From Bedlam to Psychiatry poster

Jonathan Andrews delivered a keynote paper entitled 'The good asylum chaplain' at the Birmingham City University conference Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in the Nineteenth Century on Friday 13 May 2011. Please visit the conference website for further information. 

Jonathan Andrews presented his paper ''Death and dissection in the Victorian Asylum'' at the Oxford Brookes University conference The Disease Within: Confinement in Europe, 1400-1800, 4th - 5th March 2011.  For further information, please visit the Oxford brookes University conference page.

Members of this theme also contribute to various popular lecture series. In April 2011 Jonathan Andrews delivered a talk entitled From Bedlam to Psychiatry to the Hexham Local History Society.  Andrews has also contributed to Northumbria University’s lecture series on Before Depression with ‘Diagnosing and Treating Melancholy in Georgian England’, 12 May 2008, and to a Glasgow CHM research seminar on ‘Using Case Notes in the History of Medicine’ and an Edinburgh RCP conference on the ‘Edinburgh Royal Hospital and the History of Scottish Psychiatry’.  Andrews also presented a lecture in 2007 before the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society on ‘Prevailing Representations of Female Madness in Georgian England'. Andrews has also lectured on the history of psychiatry to American psychology students as part of a British Studies programme in Edinburgh in July 2008.

One-off lectures, cafés scientifiques and a programme of lectures on the history of mental illness are held, sometimes linked to PEALs at Newcastle University, or else to the Newcastle medical school. Philip van der Eijk presented 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.