Explore the transformational impact of the First World War on mental health care and treatment.
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Session dates are Tues 8th & 22nd Dec, Tues 12th & 26th Jan all at 10:30 GMT
This first part of our project aims to research the history of the Borough of Portsmouth Mental Asylum (later St.James' Hospital), including patient records, to explore the transformational impact of the First World War on mental health care and treatment.
There will be four online group workshops to support people undertaking research as part of this project. The workshops will include guidance around research skills and sources of information, as well as sharing materials and findings. The opportunities include research into attitudes towards mental health care, changes in treatments, including when the hospital was requisitioned by the American Armed Forces in 1918. Through patient records, we will identify individual stories which illustrate the social context of that period – for example returning veterans and young widowed mothers.
The First World War had a profound influence on how mental health care developed at that time, along with many other social changes, and patient records are now publicly available up to 1920 as 100 years has passed.
The second part of the project will involve creative activities to help bring the stories identified through the research to life, and share these with the wider public through a multi-media presentation, and published materials.

Carolyn Barber
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