Join us on Monday 8 June from 6:00pm for a selection of talks about the history of the Worcester City and County Pauper Lunatic Asylum (Powick Mental Hospital) and enjoy the last chance to view our ‘Outside the Asylum’ display funded by Arts Council England.
Making sense of Powick Hospital: Cataloguing Powick patient files as part of the New Burdens Project, Anthony Roach
Anthony is an Archive Assistant at Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service with 20 years’ experience in the Museums, Archives and Libraries sector. He recently completed the New Burdens Project to catalogue and improve accessibility to a wide range of public records including Powick Hospital.
Life for the patients at Powick Mental Hospital: Daily activities, occupational tasks, mealtimes and entertainments, Sarah Dentith
Sarah has volunteered with the George Marshall Medical Museum since 2012. She is Archive Assistant at Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service and delivers talks and tours for groups based on her own research.
Outside the Asylum, Maddie Hale
Maddie is a full-time PhD student in American History at the University of Worcester. She has researched the lives of patients both in and outside of Worcester’s Lunatic Asylum during the 19th Century
