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Resources
Welcome to the Resources Section, where you can browse our collection of articles, essays, film clips, other artwork and links on all things related to the history of mental health care. This section holds all material that we compiled, commissioned, researched or received for the project. Our contributors come from a range of different backgrounds and experiences, and the material itself includes texts on asylums, oral history and the service user movement, a timeline and original poetry.
In this section, extracts from the five films that Testimony has produced are available to view – these are short documentaries from a variety of perspectives, about issues tackled in the archive interviews and how they impact on mental health care in Britain today.
On our links page there are suggestions for sites of other related organizations and projects that you might find useful.
You may also want to make a suggestion or contribution of your own - for full details of how to submit, click here.
If you want to have your say on any specific issue handled on these pages – whether it is to make a comment or a criticism, whether you want to make an addition to the material or simply tell us how much you like our site – please go to the Forums in our Community Section of this website. There you will find discussions on all topics covered in this section.
Scottish Mental Health Film and Arts Festival
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The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival 2007 was a huge success.
The festival involved over 60 organisations, including Testimony- 40 events and attracted around 5000 attenders, very positive media coverage, and significant interest from artists, people with experience of mental health problems, organisations and funders.
Joanne Ball filmmaker
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Joanne Ball directed the Testimony documentary film 'True Sanctuaries'.
Mental Health in England and Wales: an Action Network Briefing
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An interesting article by the BBC with web links to other sites. Mentions the Mental Health Bill. Written in Sept 2004, updated in April 2007
Scottish Award-Winning Campaign 'See Me'
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The 'see me' campaign was launched in October 2002 to challenge stigma and discrimination around mental ill-health in Scotland. The campaign is run by an alliance of five Scottish mental health organisations: Highland Users Group (HUG); National Schizophrenia Fellowship (Scotland); Penumbra; the Royal College of Psychiatrists (Scottish Division)and the Scottish Association for Mental Health.
Institute of Race Relations
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Excellent resource on the state of race relations in the UK today. Regularly updated and has links to other websites. Information on Immigration, Refugees and Race.
Survivor Research
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Survivor Research offers consultancy services in mental health research, evaluation, organisational development and service audits. They specialise in foregrounding the perspectives of Black and Minority Ethnic service users and survivors in the thinking and innovation around mental health, well being and recovery.
Glock Design
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Glock Design drew up Testimony's logo and also developed the look and feel for this website.
Oral History with the Refugee Community History Project
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The Refugee Community History Project has collected the previously untold stories of refugees who have settled in London since 1951 in order to highlight the enormous contributions they make to the city.
This major initiative to record refugees' first hand experiences for current and future generations to explore ran from June 2004 to April 2007. Over 150 refugees from 15 different groups have taken part. This web site contains sections -- both audio and text -- of those refugees' stories.
Refugees flee to foreign countries, like the UK, because of persecution in their home country, or because of a well-founded fear of persecution. This may be because of a refugee's race, religion, nationality, social group, political opinion, or as a result of war.
The project won the 2006 Charity Award for arts, culture and heritage.
The interviews collected by the project are archived at the Museum of London and constitute an extraordinary and unrivalled collection of testimony based material on the subject of refugees in the UK, they also formed the basis of the major exhibition Belonging which ran from November 2006 to February 2007. In addition the project has produced a variety of educational resources based upon the material collected including CD ROMs, a short film collection and a mobile exhibition. These are available free of charge.
Intute: Health and Life Sciences
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Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains 123058 records.
The British Medical Journal online version
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Informative articles from the British Medical Journal. Latest developments in drugs and medicines.
