Tales of Victorian-era madness have imbued twenty-first century minds with images of inconvenient husbands and wives, locked up in attics or diseased madhouses in the English countryside, without hope of real care or release. But what was the reality faced by the ‘insane’ in nineteenth-century New …
[Read more...] about Callan Park: Hospital for the Insane by Sarah Luke
Using images - some never seen publicly before - and oral history interviews (including the Rozelle Hospital Oral History Collection) historian Roslyn Burge has created a fascinating insight into the former mental asylum, capturing the stories of patients, residents, staff , the community, the …
[Read more...] about Callan Park: Compassion and Conflict in The Asylum by Roslyn Burge
In the Garden Drum - great article by Stuart Read describing his recent visit to Callan Park. Enjoy - it is a great read! http://gardendrum.com/2016/06/09/5-things-love-callan-park-estate-sydney/ …
Update: See the January issue of The Whistle honouring Jean. http://www.bmartin.cc/dissent/contacts/au_wba/whistle201501.pdf Hall Greenland, October 2014 Dr Jean Lennane (on the left in photo in hi-vis vest) was one of the founders of the Friends of Callan Park and our first president. She died in …
