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Here is the first of six posts concerning the rationale behind the location of the hospitals for which the Archives & Museum holds records: Bethlem, the Maudsle

Over a year ago we promised that we would let blog readers know when two new books on Edward Oxford, one of Victorian Bethlem’s most famous patients...

The Archivist here continues the review of Inconvenient People which he started late last month:An attentive reading of the preface to Sarah...

This month, one of our volunteers has chosen to comment on the artwork of Nadia Chomyn.

As we prepare to celebrate the New Year, we might wonder about the different uses of dance in modern and historical healthcare. In November...

Here is the first instalment of the Archivist’s promised review of Inconvenient People: Lunacy Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England.Inconvenient...

Now that the oil paintings held by the Archives & Museum (representing about 10% of our art collection as a whole) are available to view on the...

This is the last entry in our series 'Just Visitng'.

This month, English Heritage launched a new web resource, Disability in Time and Place, a site which uses historic buildings to explore changing...

Concluding their current film series on Mental Health, Trauma and Rehabilitation, the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School...

This month the Archivist takes In the Frame ‘on holiday’ again to feature the work of an artist who was inspired by Revelation.

Almost two years ago, one of our volunteers here at the Archives and Museum (who has since moved on to other things) wrote a post about her experiences...