News at the Centre for the History of Medicine
Madness, Migration and the Irish in Lancashire, c.1850-1921
Professor Hilary Marland and Dr Catherine Cox have secured funding from the Wellcome Trust for a ground-breaking three-year project on the relationship between Irish migration and mental illness between c.1850 and 1921. The award will boost research activity at the Centres for the History of Medicine at Warwick and UCD and is intended to intensify collaboration with national and international partner institutions. It builds on a strong research emphasis on the history of psychiatry at Warwick and relates to several themes of the Centre’s Strategic Award, particularly health and ethnicity. read more