VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

George Marshall Medical Museum is looking for help from people who are have a keen ear, are interested in healthcare, can type, and can do all of this from home!

After collecting some oral histories recorded with healthcare staff about their experiences of the covid-19 pandemic, we’re now ready to transcribe and summarise them.

This is where you might come in!

Let us know if you’d like to get involved. Email gmmedicalmuseum@gmail.com

george braine-hartnell, medical superintendent 1897-1919

Dr. Frank Crompton, Research Fellow, has worked “obsessively” for almost 20 years to ensure that the Patients’ Notes from the Worcester City and County Pauper Lunatic Asylum are secure for future use by historians.

We are pleased to e-Publish his most recent book: GEORGE BRAINE-HARTNELL: The Man Who Administered the Worcester Mental Hospital in a Period of Gross Overcrowding and Then Through the Great War and Its Aftermath – 1897 to 1919.

Click the following link to download the book as a .pdf., which Dr. Crompton has also indexed: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55b52e37e4b0addeebb56e63/t/63c53511e629af326188bc94/1673868563144/George+Brain+Hartwell%2C+Frank+Crompton+2023.pdf

You can find further resources by Dr. Crompton at the following link on our website:- https://medicalmuseum.org.uk/frank-crompton

The Making of a Master of Lunacy

Dr. Frank Crompton, Research Fellow, has worked “obsessively” for almost 20 years to ensure that the Patients’ Notes from the Worcester City and County Pauper Lunatic Asylum are secure for future use by historians.

We are pleased to e-Publish his most recent book: The Making of a Master of Lunacy: The early career of Edward Marriot Cooke at the City and County Pauper Lunatic Asylum 1872 to 1897.

Click the following link to download the book as a .pdf., which Dr. Crompton has also indexed: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55b52e37e4b0addeebb56e63/t/63bbf17078ce8a61e06235c2/1673261427267/Crompton%2C+The+Making+of+a+Master+of+Lunacy.pdf

You can find further resources by Dr. Crompton at the following link on our website:- https://medicalmuseum.org.uk/frank-crompton