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Spotlight: Straitjacket

When & Where

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Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Wednesday, 30 September 2026 - 12:30pm to 12:45pm
Physicians' Gallery, 11 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ

Event Details

Join us at the Physicians’ Gallery on the last Wednesday of every month at 12.30pm for a curator-led talk exploring one of the objects on display in our Gallery.

Our topic for this talk is the straitjacket. Supported as a mark of medical progress in 1700s Europe, hated by patients and criticised by Victorian reformers - the straitjacket has a controversial history.

Contact

Daisy Cunynghame
d.cunynghame@rcpe.ac.uk
01312473645

Costs

Free

Event Location

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Physicians' Gallery
11 Queen Street
Edinburgh
EH2 1JQ

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