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Wellcome Collection: 2023 Accessions

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  • Heart N Soul, creative arts charity, London: records created and collected by the charity, which is led by people with and without learning disabilities and autistic people c1980-2010 (SA/HNS; acc 2716)
  • Ron Henriques (1949-2021), artist, writer, and inventor: archive incl personal records, creative writing and inventions, and supporting material from family in their correspondence with medical staff and with charities, and efforts to support him artistically and personally. For much of his adult life Ron lived in psychiatric institutions, care homes, and supported housing in and around Exeter due to chronic mental illness c1950-2021 (PP/RON; acc 2714)
  • Myra Cohen (1923 – 2005), artist and art therapist: patient artworks and related papers from Cohen, who worked as an art therapist at Hill End Psychiatric Hospital, St Albans, Hertfordshire from 1968 to 1986 1960s-1980s (PP/MCO; acc 2733)
  • Medical compendium written by an aspiring surgeon, with insights into surgical education and the tools of the trade at the time, incl treatises on wounds, fractures, phlebotomy, and bandages, France, c.1687 c1687 (MS. 9323; acc 2729)
  • Barbara Taylor (fl1980-2010), historian: personal papers rel to her mental health experiences, her treatment at Friern Hospital (formerly Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum), undergoing psychoanalysis therapy, and the writing and publication of her memoir, 'The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times' 1980s-2010s (PP/TAY; acc 2744)