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On the 4 September our Education Officer will be speaking at the Nicholson Gallery in Leek in connection with their current exhibition of the...

The programme for the forthcoming Society for the Social History of Medicine annual conference has recently been released. Held at the Centre...

Last month, Northumbria University held a conference around the theme of Situating and Interpreting States of Mind: 1700 - 2000. This interdisciplinary...

We're hoping the weather picks up soon for this weekend's Bethlem site open day - the annual Sunfayre. Open to all, there will be activities...

On Saturday 5 May, the new Langdon Down Museum of Learning Disability hosted a conference focused on the Normansfield Hospital. Founded in 1868...

Find out more about the portrayal of mental health in Opera.

The issue of what exactly comprises damage to the physical body appears in a number of contemporary debates within medicine and more widely...

We may think that the idea of "damage" to the physical body is self-evident, but countless historical, anthropological and social studies have...

Cambridge University is recreating online an experiment originally conducted by Charles Darwin with dinner party...

Bethlem and its collections came under the spotlight in a discussion event hosted by Tate Britain on 1 December. Mike Jay (author of The Air...

In 2009 the Natural History Museum mounted a temporary exhibition entitled After Darwin: Contemporary Expressions which sought to present “a...

The recent BFI London Film Festival included a screening of David Cronenberg’s ‘A Dangerous Method’, based on the play (and screenplay) by Christopher...