LAMAS 54th Local History Conference
'In Sickness and in Health': The Wellbeing of Londoners through History
Saturday 16 November 2019 - 10.30am – 6.00pm
Weston Theatre, Museum of London
Tickets
Early Bird (before 31st October) £12.50
From 1st of November £15
Programme
10.30 Doors open: registration, and displays by societies
11.00 Opening by Taryn Nixon, President of LAMAS
11.10 Session 1: Institutions
‘Belgian refugees in London’s asylums: the case of Colney Hatch’
– Dr Rob Ellis and Dr Rebecca Gill, University of Huddersfield
‘The extraordinary health care history of the Cleveland Street Workhouse’ – Dr Ruth Richardson, King’s College London
12.20 Keynote Lecture:
‘One Deadly Summer – Spanish ‘Flu in London 1918’
– Catharine Arnold, Author, Journalist and Academic
1.20 LAMAS Publication Awards
–introduced by the Chair of the LAMAS Local History Committee
1.30 – 2.30pm Lunch break (andopportunity to browse local society displays)
2.30 Session 2: Nurses and Patients
‘The information legacy of the Nurses Registration Act 1919’
– Teresa Doherty, Royal College of Nursing
‘‘Clamour of need’: London mothers and Paddington Green Open Clinic’ – Prof Sally Alexander, Goldsmiths, University of London
3.45 – 4.15pm Refreshment break (tea and coffee provided)
4.15 Session 3: Diseases and Cures
‘The Plague-Endemic Experience in the Suburban Environs of Early Stuart London’ – Aaron Columbus, Birkbeck, University of London
‘Half-Lives: The people who sold Radium’
– Lucy Jane Santos, Writer and Historian
5.30 Closing remarks