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Conventions of classifying and diagnosing mental illness have changed a lot over the years. 

Well, the weather turned out beautiful for the Sunfayre last Saturday, 10 July. So, on a wet and dreary Tuesday morning, let us transport you...

A discussion of a black comic look at life on the ward by the semi-anonymous artist 'Nelson'. 

It's getting close to the 2010 Bethlem Sunfayre and, given the beautiful weather, it seemed the perfect time to let you know what's going on...

In 1840 the French socialist and proto-feminist thinker Flora Tristan visited Bethlem. 

London Lives is a new resource that allows the public to search the records of Bridewell and Bethlem from 1689-1800. 

For over 150 years the Bethlem Hospital has collected art by its patients. The current exhibition at the Bethlem Gallery, which opened yesterday...

We're excited to see that the programme for the First Annual Health Humanities Conference on "Madness and Literature" has been announced, with...

Following investigation and subsequent reform in the early half of the nineteenth century (1815 and 1852), Bethlem Hospital increasingly became a very domestic

A new resource, European Journeys, offers the opportunity to discover more about nineteenth-century doctors and their trips abroad.

This month's selected artwork has been chosen due to the fact it is rarely on display.

Yesterday Hull History Centre played host to local schoolchildren out on a visit to celebrate National Storytelling Week. By all accounts, great...