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Telling Admissions 2

Personal accounts

This month we look at Adam Ant and his relationship with mental ill-health.

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Ikons at St. Giles Church, Camberwell - Imma Maddox

Art

In May 2013, Bethlem Gallery artist Imma Maddox will display her ikons in St Giles Church, Camberwell (Church Street, SE5), painted using traditional...

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The Carnival of Emotions at the Wonder Street Fair

Events

Today and tomorrow, the Carnival of Emotions visits the Wonder Street Fair at the Barbican. The Street Fair is part of the Wonder Season, a Wellcome...

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Oxford Martyr 3

History

We hope we may be permitted to add a postscript to our reviews of recently-published books concerning Edward Oxford, in order to give context...

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In the Frame for April 2013: anonymous ‘Red and Blue Abstract’

Art

This month the Archivist has chosen to highlight ‘Red and Blue Abstract’ on the strength of his reading of Oliver Sacks’ latest book, Hallucinations.

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Hospital Snapshots 5

History

This month we look at Bethlem's collection of 'before' and 'after' snapshots.

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Escapism, Colour & Light: New Exhibition at the Bethlem Gallery opens this week

Art

Escapism, Colour & Light is a new exhibition by Matthew at the Bethlem Gallery, opening this week (Wednesday 27 March). Matthew, a current Bethlem...

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Foreign Bodies: New Exhibition at UCL

Exhibitions

In 1942, G. O. Chambers (visiting surgeon to the English prison system) attempted to outline the "psychology of the intentional swallower". Chambers...

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An Inconvenient Nuance 4

Reviews

Blog readers may be interested in (and may themselves wish to add) a little more comment on the “trope of the unmarried mother institutionalised...

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Location, Location 2

News

We continue our look at why Bethlem has been located at its various sites throughout history.

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In the Frame for March 2013: Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Tulipes de Shangri-La’

Art

In the Frame goes on holiday once again, this time to France.

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Seventeenth Century Self Help: The Anatomy of Melancholy

Events

With thanks to Dr Erin Sullivan of the Shakespeare Institute for writing this guest blog post.The writer Samuel Johnson once said that Robert...

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