News at the Centre for the History of Medicine

People's History of the NHS website launched

As part of the Cultural History of the NHS project, a new website has been launched to collect personal stories and memories of the National Health Service from patients, health workers and others. We'd love to hear your recollections of the NHS and what it means to you. If you would like to participate in this part of our project, please visit our People's History of the NHS website where you can tell us your stories, respond to calls for information, find out about public engagement events, and visit our Virtual Museum and People's Enclyopaedia of the NHS.

Mon 08 Feb 2016, 14:09 | Tags: Public Engagement Announcement Launch outreach event

Dr Angela Davis - Warwick Words

Modern Motherhood

Saturday 24 November

How have the lives of mothers been changing since the Second World War and have these changes been for good or bad? Has what it means to be a mother been transformed by feminism, rising divorce rates and the growing numbers of women in the workforce?

Join Angela Davis, a historian at the University of Warwick, to hear tales of motherhood, past and present, as she presents her oral history of motherhood, Modern Motherhood: Women and Family in England, c. 1945-2000. Drawing on the themes of continuity and change we will consider what these women’s stories indicate about both the history and future of motherhood and the family in England.

Friends Meeting House
4.00pm

Refreshments provided

Tickets: £5.00

Thu 06 Sep 2012, 09:37 | Tags: Public Engagement Announcement outreach event

Hiding in the Pub to Cutting the Cord: Video and Podcast

The Warwick Centre for the History of Medicine project: 'Hiding in the Pub to Cutting the Cord? Fatherhood and Childbirth in Britain, 1950s to present' convened by Dr Laura King has endeavoured to bring together the public, arts and academia in a series of events.

A film has been produced showcasing this project and features the theatre production 'Our Fathers', by Babakas, performed at the Warwick Arts Centre on 12th and 13th June 2012, panel discussions which followed these performances, and poetry readings at the Coventry Mysteries festival on 16th June 2012. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/outreach/hiding_in_the_pub/video

This project was generously supported by the Wellcome Trust, via the Centre's Strategic Award: Situating Medicine; New Directions in the History of Medicine.

Wed 15 Aug 2012, 09:59 | Tags: Public Engagement Videocast Announcement Media outreach event