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Dr Mhairi Hepburn As our next meeting will be a joint one with the RCPsych History of Psychiatry Special Interest Group, I would like to share my essay "My Family, Asylums, Kindness, Eugenics and Lithium" which was published in the Spring 2025 HOPSIG newsletter. Kinfauns, Perthshire

A message from Elsa Richardson about this upcoming meeting: "I am pleased to announce that the 20th Anniversary of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare will be marked on the evening of the 29th of October 2025 by public lectures from two esteemed scholars in the field, Professor Tracey Loughran (Essex) and Professor Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck, UL). Please join us from 3.30 pm to 8.00 pm Room 105 Stenhouse Wing, Business School, University of Strathclyde. Schedule:...

Recently, we were sadly informed of the death of Dr W. Clyne Shepherd, a longstanding member of the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine. It is an honour to be able to share this wonderful autobiographical memoir in which Dr Shepherd describes a fascinating and varied medical career. From undergraduate days in the 1940s through junior hospital posts and National Service in the 1950s, he paints a picture of life as a young doctor in the fledgling NHS. His further training was geared...