CHM invites applications for a Research Fellow for the project 'Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000'.

The Research Fellow will conduct a specified programme of research on ‘Women, Health and Maternity in the English and Irish Criminal Justice Systems’, involving independent and collaborative historical research in archives and libraries in England and Ireland, along lines agreed with the project’s PIs. The Research Fellow will also advance and organise public outreach activities central to the project. The post will be based at the Centre for the History of Medicine (CHM), University of Warwick, and supervised by Professor Marland. This is a 3-year post, funded by the Wellcome Trust. 

Full details here

Professor Hilary Marland, CHM Director, was a guest on BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time' programme last week. With host Melvyn Bragg and guests Justin Champion (Professor of the History of Early Modern Ideas at Royal Holloway, University of London) and Jonathan Andrews (Reader in the History of Psychiatry at Newcastle University), she discussed the early years of Bedlam, the name commonly used for the London hospital of St Mary of Bethlehem outside Bishopsgate.

The programme is available on BBC iPlayer here, with further information and a reading list.

CHM Director, Professor Hilary Marland, will give this year's Roy Porter Lecture, hosted by the Wellcome Library in London, on Tuesday 22nd March. She will speak on 'Hearing the Convict Cry, Hearing the Patient’s Voice: mental illness and the prison in 19th-century Britain'.

NB. the event is fully booked.