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Downloads

There are a number of downloadable items arising from the project. The following lists give you quick access to them.

Public Lecture Series One


Conference Plenary Speakers

'Talking the Blues': two lectures given at the Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle upon Tyne, in association with the '18th-Century Blues' exhibition

18th-Century Blues: Assembling the Melancholy Mind’ Professor Allan Ingram & Dr Leigh Wetherall Dickson

Beset by Blue Devils: Romney, Wright and the Impact of Depression’ David Cross

Public Lecture Series Two

'Get Happy! Romantic Psychiatry and the Addiction to Wellness Professor Joel Faflak


'Engraving the 18th-Century Blues: Hogarth's Representation of Depression' Professor Peter Wagner (University of Koblenz-Landau)


'The Limits of Sympathy: Newspaper Reporting of Suicide in Scotland and the North of England, c.1750-1830' Professor RAB Houston (University of St Andrews)


'Melancholy and the Talking Cure in the Sixteenth Century' Professor Jenny Richards (University of Newcastle)


'"La maladie anglaise": French views of depression and suicide in eighteenth-century England' Professor Jeffrey Hopes (Université du Maine)


'Poor Maria & My Friend, Mr Shandy'
Patrick Wildgust (Curator, Shandy Hall)


'Diagnosing and Treating Melancholy in Georgian England' Dr Jonathan Andrews (University of Newcastle)

'Religion and the Body in Seventeenth-Century Women's Melancholy' Dr Katharine Hodgkin (University of East London)


'The Ordeal of John Bunyan' Professor W.R. Owens (Open University)