HeritageEvents

Swedenborg House will participate in Open House 2024 on Saturday 14 September from 10am to 5pm.A documentary about the life and cultural legacy of Emanuel Swedenborg Heaven Hell and Other Places will screen on a loop 36 mins. in Swedenborg Hall and…

Led by James Wilson editor and former librarian of the Swedenborg Society James will give a tour of the architectural features and provide an overview of the history of both the building and the Swedenborg Society as an organization.…

From Cold Bath Fields where Swedenborg lived and died to St Pauls where Swedenborgs printers and publishers operated the walk will be led by the Swedenborg Societys curator and museum director Stephen McNeilly and James Wilson editor and former librarian of the…

In this controversial and thought‐provoking lecture Christine Hallett will reflect on her career in Nursing History. She will use the concept of power as a lens through which to analyse both the nature of nursing and the dilemmas faced by those who…

Before 1891 nursing staff in psychiatric hospitals received no formal training and were expected to learn on the job. Claire Chatterton explores the history of asylum attendants and explains how registered nurses and staff without formal training continued to work alongside each…