London Health Histories
One-day workshop
17th June 2016
Venue: Darwin Room, Wellcome Trust, Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
Organised by the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine with the Wellcome Library. Sponsored by the Wellcome Library and hosted by the Wellcome Trust.
Bringing together academics, librarians and archivists, ‘London Health Histories’ will consider the health of London over time and also examine how digital developments are providing fresh opportunities for research.
To register to attend this free workshop, please contact: jane.seymour@lshtm.ac.uk
Programme
09.30 – Registration opens
09.55 – Welcome: Martin Gorsky, Centre for History in Public Health, LSHTM
10.00 – Taking London’s Pulse: Digital Sources, New Approaches
Ross MacFarlane, Wellcome Library: ‘The Public Side of Public Health: Reflections on the launch and promotion of London’s Pulse’
Sally Frampton, University of Oxford and Lalita Kaplish, Wellcome Library: ‘Diagnosis London: Investigating public health in London’
11.00 – Break
11.20 – London’s Health Between the Wars
Patricia Dark, Southwark Archives and Angela Saward, Wellcome Library: ‘Here Comes Good Health: living conditions in South London between the wars and Bermondsey’s health films’
Luke Blaxill, University of Oxford and Jane K. Seymour, LSHTM: ‘Adventures in text mining with the London MOH annual reports: towards an alternative history of interwar public health’
13.00 – Lunch
14.00 – Institutions and Governance
Philippa Smith, London Metropolitan Archives: ‘Mapping and imaging smallpox in London and the work of the Metropolitan Asylums Board’
Rob Ellis, University of Huddersfield: ‘London County Council, its Mental Health Policy and the Politics of International Consultation’
15.00 – Break
15.20 – Culture and the Metropolitan Environment
Mark Jenner, University of York: ‘Gay Tulips on a Dunghill? Social Sanitation and Civic Culture in London c.1550-c.1720’
Clare Horrocks, Liverpool John Moores University: ‘Policing Public Health in Punch 1848 to 1858’
16.20 – Reflections and Conclusion Led by David Green, King’s College London
16.50 – End
More details: http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2016/05/london-health-histories-a-workshop/
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