While Viennese artists, architects, psychiatrists and patients were working together, Londoners were developing one of the oldest surviving institutions caring for the mentally ill: the Bethlem Royal Hospital, or Bedlam. Join our guests to find out more about what was happening in psychiatry in London and Vienna at the turn of the 20th century.

Speakers

Jonathan Andrews, historian of psychiatry, Newcastle University
Catharine Arnold, author of 'Bedlam: London and its mad'
Nicky Imrie, Wellcome Collection.

Facilitator

Toby Murcott, science writer.

To accompany 'Madness & Modernity'.

 

Catharine Arnold

I graduated from Girton College Cambridge with a degree in English and I hold a further degree in psychology. I am currently working on the third of my London trilogy, which takes a look at London's history of vice and sin . . .

Nicky Imrie

I received my PhD in History of Art from Birkbeck College, University of London in 2008. My doctoral work focused on the architecture and culture of sanatoria for nervous disorders in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1890-1914, and formed part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded Madness & Modernity project. I have also contributed to the 'Madness and Modernity' exhibition at Wellcome Collection as a research assistant.