Blog - History

As we lead up to the London 2012 Olympics, join us to find out more about the significance of sport at Bethlem.

Read the next in our series looking at biography and psychology.

Find out about sport at Bethlem and what was on offer in the 19th century.

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

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.

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...

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

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