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Postnatal Mental Disorders in 20th Century Britain
Events & Publications
Latest Updates
Publications
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Creed, Fabiola & Hilary Marland, 'Improving Maternity Care through Women’s Voices: The Women’s Health Strategy Continues a Long Process of Advocacy', History & Policy, 15 February 2023. Available online at <https://www.historyandpolicy.org/policy-papers/papers/improving-maternity-care-through-womens-voices-the-womens-health-strategy-continues-a-long-process-of-advocacy>
Upcoming Events
Professor Hilary Marland (PI)
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“The Protracted Funeral of Puerperal Insanity'? Diagnosis, Heredity and Reproduction in Britain c.1900', Keynote at Workshop ‘Victorian Reproductions’, University of Mainz, 24 - 25 March 2023.
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“I felt totally inadequate as a mother': Motherhood, Guilt and Mental Illness in Post-War Britain’, Workshop, ‘Women and Mental Illness in Post-war Britain’, University of Warwick, 13 - 14 April 2023.
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‘Classified out of Existence? Diagnoses and Practices of Postnatal Mental Disorder in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century’, Research Colloquium, ‘On Being Insane in Sane Places: New Perspectives on the Social History of Madness 1800-1945’, McGill University, 15 - 16 May 2023.
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‘Joint admission may actually be therapeutic': Motherhood, Mental Breakdown and the Crisis in Care in Postwar Britain’, European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Conference, ‘Crisis in Medicine and Health’, University of Oslo, 30 August - 2 September 2023.
Dr Kelly-Ann Couzens (PDF Strand 1)
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"‘I did love my baby really. I did not want her to be a bother to anybody’: Maternal Suicide and Ideas of Care in English & Scottish Child Homicides, c. 1860 – 1960', 'Compassion & Care: Emotions and Experience in the Care of Children Through History' Conference, The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, Manchester, 23 - 24 March 2023.
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"‘It is difficult to imagine anything which would cloud the skies of life more blackly than that’: Child Murder, Medico-Legal Opinion and the Formation of the Infanticide Act 1938', Socio-Legal Studies Annual Conference, Ulster University, Derry, 4 - 6 April 2023.
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'Alternative Legal Histories of Women and Institutionalization' Panel, Socio-Legal Studies Annual Conference, Ulster University, Derry, 4 - 6 April 2023.
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Title TBC, Work-In-Progress Seminar, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, 9 May 2022.
Dr Fabiola Creed (PDF Strand 2)
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Title TBC, BBC Play For Today Viewing Group, TBC April 2023.
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“Dropp[ing] in and out': Mental Health, Marriage, Motherhood and Education, c.1960-1975', Workshop, ‘Women and Mental Illness in Post-war Britain’, University of Warwick, 13 - 14 April 2023.
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"Drama out of Crisis’: Nemone Lethbridge’s Maternal Mental Illness and her BBC ‘Baby Blues’ Play for Today (1973),' European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Conference, ‘Crisis in Medicine and Health’, University of Oslo, 30 August - 2 September 2023.
Past Events
Professor Hilary Marland (PI)
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“I’m not trying here to suggest that we should all try to be amateur psychiatrists': Childbirth, Postnatal Mental Illness and the National Childbirth Trust, 1970s-1980s’, Workshop ‘Affect and Subjectivity in Postwar British Political History’, University of California Berkeley, 23 - 24 April 2022.
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“I’m not trying here to suggest that we should all try to be amateur psychiatrists': Postnatal Mental Illness and the National Childbirth Trust, 1960s-1990s’, Panel: ‘Mothers, Families and Postnatal Mental Illness in Twentieth-Century Britain’, Social History Society Annual Conference, University of Lancaster, 6 - 8 July 2022.
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‘The “Protracted Funeral” of Puerperal Insanity: Childbirth and Mental Illness in Early Twentieth-Century London Mental Hospitals’, The International Marcé Society Conference, Imperial College London, 19 - 23 September 2022.
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‘Postnatal Mental Disorders in Twentieth-Century Britain’, Work-in-Progress seminar, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, 1 November 2022.
Dr Kelly-Ann Couzens (PDF Strand 1)
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"I have killed my child. I do not know why I did it': Medicine, Crime and Postnatal Mental Illness in Twentieth Century Britain', Work-in-Progress Seminar, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, 30 November 2021.
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"I could not go home to my mother': Family, Community and Medico-Legal Interactions in Twentieth-Century Child Murder Cases', Social History Society Annual Conference, University of Lancaster, 6 - 8 July 2022.
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"In my opinion the answers given to me by Mrs Wilkinson were not those of a normal person’ – Medical Expertise in English and Scottish Maternal Child Killing Cases, c. 1860 - 1945', British Society for the History of Science Annual Meeting, Queen's University Belfast, 20 - 23 July 2022
Dr Fabiola Creed (PDF Strand 2)
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"Sensitive’ Histories Panel', Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, 11 January 2022.
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'Sufferers, their Partners, and the Media: Experiencing and Narrating Postnatal Mental Illness in Twentieth Century Britain', Work-in-Progress seminar, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, 26 April 2022.
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'Nemone Lethbridge’s Maternal Mental Illness and her BBC ‘Baby Blues’ Play for Today (1973),' Workshop, ‘Autobiographical Fiction as a Health Narrative’: Ethics, Accountability, and Responsibility for Researchers Working with Health Narratives, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, University of London, 15 - 16 December 2022.