Présentation

Demi-journée d’étude organisée en collaboration avec l'Atelier international des usages du passé, l'Axe Genre du CRh et le GEHM, autour des livres d’Alison Light, Common People. An English Family History Without Roots (2014) et Barbara Taylor, The Last Asylum (2014).

Barbara Taylor (Newcastle University) The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor’s journey through mental illness and the British psychiatric health care system. The Last Asylum begins with Barbara Taylor’s visit to the innocuously named Princess Park Manor in Friern Barnet, North London – a picture of luxury and repose. But this is the former site of one of England’s most infamous lunatic asylums, the Middles ex County Pauper Lunatic Aslyum at Colney Hatch. At its peak this asylum housed nearly 3,000 patients – among them, in the 1980s, Barbara Taylor herself.

Alison Light (University of London Queen Mary) présentera sur l’histoire de la famille : Family history is a massive phenomenon of our times but what are we after when we go in search of our ancestors? Beginning with her grandparents, Alison Light moves between the present and the past, in an extraordinary series of journeys over two centuries, acro ss Britain and beyond. Common People is a family history but also a new kind of public history, following the lives of the migrants who travelled the country looking for work.

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