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Category: ReBlogs

A Social History of Learning Disability: Langdon Down Museum

Posted on March 3, 2015
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Why the world needs collectors

Posted on February 18, 2015
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Clerics and Kings: Public History and the Redevelopment of All Saints Church, Kingston

Posted on January 27, 2015
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Private Minds, Public Histories: Discovering Archives of Mental Illness and Learning Disability at Surrey History Centre. 

Posted on December 17, 2014
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The Science Museum – Early Bird Autism Session

Posted on October 7, 2013
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Rethinking the Asylum: Dr Down and the History of Learning Disability

Posted on August 12, 2013

When an episode of BBC’s Panorama (2011) exposed shocking levels abuse at Winterbourne View, a care home for patients with learning disabilities, a number of commentators were quick to liken the home, and the cruelty that happened there, to a Victorian asylum. Read the full Blog from the Victorian Clinic Posted 11 August 2013

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“The Imbecile Lady”

Posted on August 7, 2013
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Life in a Victorian Asylum 3: Patient Rights

Posted on May 13, 2013
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What's On

The museum is currently closed due to COVID 19.

We hope to reopen in the Spring of 2021.

A schedule of open days and special events for 2021 will be announced in late 2020/early 2021.


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