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Confronting the Collections: Challenging Objects

News

The history of the Bethlem Royal Hospital spans hundreds of years, bringing us right up to the present day. As such it can give an account of...

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Hospital Snapshots 8

History

This month we look at the gaze of the sitters in Henry Hering's series of photographs of patients at Bethlem.

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In the Frame for July 2013: Pieter Bruegel’s ‘Landscape with the Fall of Icarus’

Art

This month In the Frame goes on holiday yet again, this time to Brussels to highlight a work of art which has no direct connection to Bethlem or the Maudsley, b

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Face Value: New Exhibition at Bethlem Gallery & Annual Sunfayre

Art

On 3rd July, a new exhibition opens at the Bethlem Gallery, showcasing young people's artwork on the theme of identity. Young artists from Bethlem...

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Maudsley Debate: Enabling or Labelling?

Events

The 48th Maudsley Debate took place earlier this month, to a packed audience at the Institute of Psychiatry. Indeed, the event was so busy that...

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Telling Admissions 3

Personal accounts

This is the third of six posts in a thread devoted to the stories of those who have gone on the record to talk about their experiences of psychiatric hospitalis

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Confronting the Collections: Images of Real People

News

As our ongoing Hospital Snapshots series has explored, the new technique of photography was quickly adopted by asylum physicians from the 1850s...

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Billiards at Bethlem 1

History

Here's the first in a short series looking at Billiards at Bethlem.

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Confronting the Collections: Whose Narrative?

News

As we explored in our former series, Curatorial Conversations, one of the challenges facing a museum of psychiatry is the vast number of potentially...

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Hospital Snapshots 7

History

Here we look at the impact of setting and props in the photographs of Henry Hering.

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Landscapes of the Mind: The Art of Well-Being

Art

An upcoming one-day conference at The Lightbox in Woking explores some of the relationships between, on the one hand, the appreciation and creation...

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In the Frame for June 2013: Stanley Lench’s ‘Norman Reid’s Brain’

Art

This month, Bethlem's Registrar, who has been working on creating a Stanley Lench touring exhibition, highlights one of this artist's works.

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