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Confronting the Collections: Doors and Windows

News

As readers of this blog will probably be aware, we at the Archives and Museum are preparing to move in 2014. At present, we are working on designs...

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Raw Materials: New Exhibition at the Bethlem Gallery opens 29 May

Art

Raw Materials: Work from Wood opens on Wednesday 29 May at the Bethlem Gallery. This exhibition of work from wood has been created by Sue Burbidge...

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Mystical Bedlam: Museums at Night

Events

Last Thursday, we opened up after hours for Museums at Night 2013. We managed to squeeze a record number of visitors into the small space to...

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Location, Location 3

History

At the start of the nineteenth century, Bethlem’s Governors began actively seeking new premises for the Hospital.

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The Politics of Interior Decoration

History

As mentioned in a recent post to our  In the Frame thread, Oliver Sacks devotes a chapter of his recent book Hallucinations to recounting the...

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Life in a Victorian Asylum 3: Patient Rights

History

It’s easy to assume that, once inside in an asylum, Victorian patients had no rights whatsoever. Many were, however, well able to communicate...

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In the Frame for May 2013: Russell Barton’s ‘Potential Murderers?’

Art

This month, the Friend's Secretary has chosen to highlight Russell Barton's Potential Murderers?

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Hospital Snapshots 6

History

One of the aspects that make the Hering collection fascinating is how much they resemble portraits, either painted or photographic, rather than institutional mu

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From Melancholia to Prozac: Depression throughout History

Reviews

As the new Bethlem Museum of the Mind will reflect on, Bethlem – or Bedlam – continues to loom large in the public imagination, often as a lens...

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held by Jane Fradgley: A Symposium on Restraint

Art

On the evening of 31 July, the MRC SGDP Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry and the Damaging the Body seminar series will co-host a public...

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Sign the Visitors’ Book, Please

History

Anyone who has made the trip to the Archives & Museum will know that one of the first things they are invited to do is sign our visitors’ book...

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Gods, Devils and Dreams: New Exhibition Opens at the Bethlem Gallery Next Week

Art

Next week, on 24th April, a new exhibition opens at the Bethlem Gallery. Peter Harry Lewis White's Gods, Devils and Dreams will run until 17...

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