SALON NO. 60: LONDON LUNACY
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2 reviews - Westminster Arts Reference Library
Description
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Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
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Tickets from £7.00 - £9.50
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16
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Thu, 29th Nov 2018 @ 18:30 - 20:30
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18:30 - 20:30
Each ticket includes a 'treatment' with Hendricks Gin Coktail
Private and Public madness int he Victorian Age.
The story of London's treatment of the insane in the 19th Century is often a strange, disturbing one. Yet it was also a time when the understanding of madness moved from seeing it as lunacy to an issue of mental health. Join historians MIKE JAY and SARAH WISE as they analyse some of the surprising and secret stories of Victorian metropolitan madness.
During the 19th Century London’s Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as St Mary Bethlehem and Bethlehem Hospital became one of the most famous psychiatric hospitals in the world. Its long and tortured tale has inspired several horror books, films and TV series and its nickname Bedlam has become a term in itself describing uproar and confusion.
Historian MIKE JAY examines one of the most eventful periods in Bedlam’s history during the confinement of one particular inmate: James Tilly Matthews. It was a period that saw scandal, the closure of the old 18th century madhouse in Moorfields and the opening of the 19thC. asylum in Southwark, against the background of the reform movement.
In 1814 Matthews, who is considered to be the first fully documented paranoid schizophrenic, was discharged to "Fox's London House", a private asylum in Hackney. It was one of many so-called 'Gilded Cages' - private lunatic asylums for the wealthy in the 19th century - which attempted to look as much like luxurious domestic residences as possible in contrast to terrifying institutions such as Bedlam.
SARAH WISE will discuss various former mansions that were re-purposed as institutions for the insane, the controversial nature of certain Victorian lunacy incarcerations and the plight of the ‘alleged lunatic’ as s/he battled to be released from these gilded cages.
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Tickets/Times
| Ticket | Event time | Cost |
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| LONDON LUNACY Standard | 18:30 - 20:30 | £9.50 |
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LONDON LUNACY Concession
Please bring proof of concession
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18:30 - 20:30 | £7.00 |
Location
Address
Westminster Arts Reference Library, 35, St Martins Street, London, WC2H2CP
Nearest Station
Leicester Square (Tube)
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Organiser
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2. Tickets are issued subject to the rules and regulations of the venue.
3. Please check your tickets, as mistakes cannot always be rectified.
4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
5. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission and may on occasion have to conduct security searches to ensure the safety of the patrons.
6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
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