Blog - History

In the introduction to Medical Muses, a study of hysterical patients in the Salpêtrière Hospital in the nineteenth century, Asti Hustvedt notes...

Read Henry Morley's account of Bethlem in 1857.

Read about some of the letters found in the Victorian Bethlem casebooks.

During her research for a forthcoming website on the history of learning disability, Rosie Sherrington, Social Inclusion and Diversity Adviser...

A chance discovery in the archives tells us more about Robert Cowtan's time at Bethlem.

Find out more about the history of sport at Bethlem, this month focusing on cycling.

This month's Biography & Psychology looks ath the life of Henry Maudsley.

This month's Olympic-themed post highlights croquet as a popular pursuit at Bethlem in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Here we continue our series looking into stained glass windows, with the story of St Dymphna.

Read more about the work of clinical assisstant, W.H.R. Rivers during his time at Bethlem in the 19th century.

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

Learn more about the history W.H.R. Rivers, doctoer to famous war poet Siegfried Sassoon.