Highlight Talks: Found In Castle Street

Author Catherine Czerkawska gives a free Highlight Talk on an unexpected exploration of mental health provision in late nineteenth-century Scotland.

Part of the Highlight Talks series at Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, this talk by author, poet and playwright Catherine Czerkawska is titled Found In Castle Street: An Unexpected Exploration Of Mental Health Provision in late Nineteenth Century Scotland. She explains how researching a murder in her Leeds Irish family led her to uncover an equally tragic story of exploitation, repression and incarceration in 1880s Glasgow. The talk runs from 2.30pm to 3.30pm with doors at 2.15pm, and free entry is by booking due to limited capacity.