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.

 

• “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.​

 

• “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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• ‘“So Called-Puerperal Insanity”: Diagnosing, Locating, and Treating Insanities of Reproduction in Britain, 1870s-1930s’, Research Colloquium, ‘On Being Insane in Sane Places: New Perspectives on the Social History of Madness and Psychiatry’, Expert Research Colloquium, McGill University, 15 - 16 May 2023. 

 

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

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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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• 'Lord Dawson & the Infanticide Act 1938' , Work-In-Progress Seminar, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, 9 May 2023.

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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.

 

• '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. 

 

• “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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• 'Maternal Mental Illness within the BBC's 'Play For Today' series', BBC Play For Today Viewing Group, 22 April 2023.
   

• 'Turning Women's History into Policy', Broadly Conceived Reproductive Network and Reading Group, Birkbeck, University of London and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 28 June 2023.  

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