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Dr Norwood Andrews, late of Austin, Texas, has joined the Centre for the History of Medicine to participate in Coventry-based Triangle Theatre Company’s new production, ‘The Last Women’. Dr Andrews is a historian with expertise in the medicine of execution.
'The Last Women' is inspired by the histories of Mary Ball, hanged in Coventry in 1849, and Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain in 1955. The project brings together historical research with improvisational enquiry in a series of formal and informal events and interactions between a company of seven professional actors, experts, young people, and other members of the public.
'The Last Women' is inspired by the histories of Mary Ball, hanged in Coventry in 1849, and Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain in 1955. The project brings together historical research with improvisational enquiry in a series of formal and informal events and interactions between a company of seven professional actors, experts, young people, and other members of the public.
Mathew Thomson's new book, Psychological Subjects, is a study of how twentieth-century Britons came to view themselves and their world in psychological terms.
From October 2005 through April 2006, Dr Xiurong Zhao of Renmin University of China will be a visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine. Dr Zhao received her PhD from the Department of History at Beijing Capital Normal University in 2000.