Scoping study to identify and explore the extent and types of treatment given to lesbian, bisexual and gender non-conforming women in the UK mental health system from 1952 until 1990. Project goals: • Define the topic and assess the feasibility, design and scope of a larger oral history study exploring women's lived experiences, and developing counter narratives to the clinical discourse. • Scope the field and provide a preliminary analysis of the extent and types of treatment received by lesbian, bisexual and gender non-conforming women in the UK mental health system. • Complement recent hidden histories of the psychiatric treatment of gay, bisexual and non-gender conforming men. This will be achieved through: • Scoping relevant LGBT, women's and mental health archives. • Identifying LGBT and scoping relevant mental health testimonies, memoirs and autobiographical material; • Developing partnerships with older LGBT and mental health service user organisations to collaborate in further research. • Developing a follow-up research proposal. Longer-term goals • Include the experiences of lesbian, bisexual and gender-non conforming women in psychiatric history. • Contribute to the historiographies of psychiatric treatments. • Address the historical gaps in knowledge of both LGBT and mental health user/survivor histories. • Develop a knowledge-base to support the mental health of older women.