Talk:Richard A. Hunter

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by HurricaneZeta (talk) 22:47, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that after the death of his domineering mother, with whom he had produced major works on psychiatric history, Richard Hunter stopped publishing, married, gardened, and raised poultry?

• Source: "His mother was an overwhelming influence and, when she died in 1974, he was released from her spell. He then married Thea Bostick, superintendent radiographer at Queen Square, and they lived a more relaxed domestic life..." (Shorvon et al. 2019, p. 363)
• "The death of his mother in 1974 brought about a complete change in his lifestyle. A year later he married Thea Bostick, superintendent radiographer at Queen Square, and bought a house in Essendon, where for six years he revelled in tending his poultry and very large garden, and basked in the love of his wife and three children." (Payne 1984, p. 292)
• "On his mother's death in 1974, his lifestyle changed completely. He married in his fifties, had three children, and moved out of London. He also ceased to publish in the history of psychiatry." (Porter 1994, p. 84)

• • ALT1: ... that the unique, if "Freudian", partnership between Richard Hunter and his mother was the most prolific in publishing on the history of psychiatry? Source:
    "Ida Macalpine and Richard Hunter constitute easily the most productive collaboration and certainly the only mother-and-son team. Psychobiographical questions of a Freudian hue are naturally raised by this scholarly liaison and its prolific progeny..." (Porter 1994, p. 83) "... they produced in their free time three fundamental historical books." (Porter 1994, p. 83)
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Antonie Mielke, Template:Did you know nominations/2025 Australian federal election
  • Comment: It would be great if this nomination could run on the same day as his mum's. Perhaps 25 November, the anniversary of his death, would be particularly suitable.

5x expanded by Surtsicna (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 261 past nominations.

Surtsicna (talk) 16:20, 9 November 2025 (UTC).

I personally like ALT1, I think it comes off as more neutral. Article seems good, only issue is to fix the sfn citations, as there are harverrors. Otherwise, meets criteria, QPQ's met at here and here. Noorullah (talk) 21:17, 9 November 2025 (UTC)