Mercy, Madness, Pestilence and Death

The Archivist at St Bartholomew's Hospital has asked us to advertise a lecture to be given by Dr Richard Cork on Wednesday 9th April 2008 at 6pm in The Great Hall, North Wing, St Bartholomew's Hospital on art and hospitals from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. The cost of lecture is £15 which will include a drinks reception and a private view of the Hogarth paintings and St Bartholomew's Hospital Museum. The proceeds will be donated to St Bartholomew's Hospital Archives and Museum and Barts and The London Cancer Care Appeal.

Richard Cork is an award-winning art critic, historian, broadcaster and exhibition curator, who writes for the FT and The Guardian. He has organised major exhibitions at the Tate, the Hayward Gallery and the Royal Academy and judged many leading art prizes and commissions, among them the Turner Prize.

To book telephone 020 7 601 8152 or send a cheque made payable to Barts and The London Charity to Richard Cork Lecture, Archives & Museum, North Wing, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London EC1A 7BE.