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Read more about windows and how they have historically depicted mental health.

Bridge Over Troubled Water is Bethlem Hospital resident Barrington’s first solo exhibition, running from 8 February until 2 March 2012. It showcases...

Read our Registrar's thoughts on this mysterious work by Charles Sims.

A new exhibition on Richard Dadd, focusing on his early work and career, opens this week in the Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives & Museum. On...

Enjoy these pictures of mental health as depicted in stained glass.

Enjoy the last in this current series by exploring the experiences of Angus Mackay during his admissions to Bethlem.

This month's post is more questions than answers, but helps us to think about how visitors to the museum may be affected by the objects on display.

December's meeting of London's Museums of Health and Medicine introduced those present to a new medical collection in London: the Royal Free...

Daniel Hack Tuke was a major figure at Bethlem in the late nineteenth century, and well-known within the field of psychiatry. Today he is often over-looked, per

Hear about one of our researchers experiences of looking into her family history.

Later this month we will bring In the Spotlight, our series of blog posts on ‘famous’ Bethlem and Maudsley patients, to a conclusion. However...

For almost 700 years, Bethlem Royal Hospital was situated in the heart of London; first of all in the City, at Bishopsgate and Moorfields, and...