Sick London at the Bishopsgate Institute
Roots
Speaker: Roberta Bivins
Tuesday 10 February • 7.30pm
Tickets: £7, concs £5; advance booking required
By the 1830s a wide range of alternative and cross-cultural medical
practices were already flourishing in London. From acupuncture to animal
magnetism, middle-class Londoners could take their pick of the latest
medical fads, fancies, and innovations from around the world. 'Regular'
medicine raged, newspapers scoffed and scandalmongered — but 'alternative
medicine' was nonetheless installed as a feature of London life. Drawing on
the accounts of doctors and patients alike, this talk will look at the long
history and enduring legacy of alternative medicine in London. Roberta
Bivins is an Associate Professor of the History of
Medicine at University of Warwick. Her work has examined the cross-cultural
transmission of medical expertise, and the history of alternative and
global medicine.
Walk Medical Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia
Guide: Diane Burstein
Sunday 22 February • 2.00pm (duration approx two hours)
Tickets: £7, concs £5; advance booking required
Join London Blue Badge Guide Diane Burstein for a walking tour around some
London areas with medical connections. You will find out about the first
female medical practitioners, a world famous children's hospital, a
hospital created specially for Italians, a nursing home run by a tea
heiress and the first family planning clinic in the UK.
Diane Burstein is a qualified London Blue Badge and City of London Guide
and author of London Then and Now.
Talk Hospitals of London
Speaker: Jonathan Evans
Tuesday 3 March • 7.30pm
Tickets: £7, concs £5; advance booking required
Jonathan Evans looks at the hospitals of London, as well as some further
afield, and touches upon their fascinating histories. The talk covers a
long historical period — from the early Middle Ages to the present day —
and draws upon archival records and historical illustration collections. He
looks at the evolution of hospitals, from Christian monastic and royal
foundations through to the emergence of NHS Trusts.
Jonathan Evans has been Archivist and Curator at The Royal London Hospital
Archives & Museum since 1989 and is Hon. Apothecaries Lecturer in the
History of Medicine to Barts and The London School of Medicine and
Dentistry. His publications include Treves and the Elephant Man and Edith
Cavell.
Talk Nicholas Culpeper: The Rebel Healer of Spitalfields
Speaker: Benjamin Woolley
Tuesday 10 March • 7.30pm
Tickets: £7, concs £5; advance booking required
Nicholas Culpeper's 1652 book The Complete Herbal is one of the most
successful English books in history, and has led to him being hailed as a
founder of alternative medicine. But Culpeper was also one of London's most
important radicals during the Civil War.
Through his practice as a writer and healer based just a few yards from the
site of Bishopsgate Institute, Culpeper not only challenged the medical
establishment by providing free healthcare to the poor, but helped spark a
revolution that laid the foundations
of modern democracy.
Benjamin Woolley is author of The Herbalist, the first full-length
biography of Nicholas Culpeper. He is an award-winning writer and
broadcaster, whose latest book, Savage Kingdom, tells the story of
Jamestown, England's first successful colony in America.
Talk Bedlam: London and its Mad SOLD OUT
Speaker: Catharine Arnold
Tuesday 24 March • 7.30pm
Talk The Roots of the Health Service
Speaker: Geoffrey Rivett
Tuesday 7 April • 7.30pm
Tickets: £7, concs £5; advance booking required
The NHS was built upon clinical services that had evolved over the
centuries and was shaped by political debates that were even older. This
talk considers the local east London population in the late 19th century,
its health and social problems. Geoffrey will explore the professional care
available from nearby doctors and hospitals and how these were financed. He
will also cover some of the debates, reports and controversies about
charitable and state health care in the run-up to the NHS Act 1946.
Geoffrey Rivett is a contemporary medical historian and vice chair of the
Council of Governors of the Homerton Hospital Foundation Trust. He worked
first as a general practitioner and later in the Department of Health and
has published two books on London's hospital system and the history of the
NHS.
BOOKING INFORMATION
• Concessions are available to senior citizens, registered disabled people,
full-time students, Bishopsgate Institute students and the unwaged.
• Advance booking is required where indicated. Places are limited so early
booking is advised.
How to book
• By post. Complete and return a booking form to Bishopsgate Institute
(available from www.bishopsgate.org.uk/events)
• In person. Book at Bishopsgate Institute Reception between 9.00am and
8.30pm, Monday to Friday.
• By telephone. Call our ticket line on 020 7392 9220 between 9.30am and
5.30pm, Monday to Friday.
We accept the following methods of payment:
• Credit/debit cards (excluding Solo or American Express)
• Cash
• Cheques (cheques should be made payable to Bishopsgate Institute)
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