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Susan Morrison explores the rich and sometimes murky depths of Scotland's past.

Time Travels: Luxury Yachts, Asylum Art and The Irish Border

An original straightjacket

Luxury Yachts, Asylum Art and The Irish Border

BBC Radio Scotland - Time Travels, Luxury Yachts, Asylum Art and The Irish Border

Susan Morrison and archivist Daisy Cunynghame look at art in the asylum.

Susan Morrison and archivist Daisy Cunynghame look at art in the asylum as a new exhibition opens in Edinburgh.

Susan Morrison and Daisy Cunynghame look at art in the asylum -  including drawings made for Scottish physician Alexander Morrison to help diagnose mental health conditions through sensitive depictions of his patients. Daisy is the archivist at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and she’s the curator behind their new exhibition which has just opened, ‘Moonstruck - 500 years of mental health… from witchcraft and home remedies to straitjackets and ECT’. We’ll also be hearing from Professor Alvin Jackson of Edinburgh University about the history of that contentious Irish Border that’s been in the news so much recently. Dr Eric Graham introduces us to Leith’s other royal yacht, no, not Britannia but the King of Thailand’s SY Maha Chakri, built by Ramage and Fergusons there. Later in the programme we’re back afloat with the 100th anniversary of the scuttling of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow and some voices from the archives.

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