Blog - History

Find out how gender affected mental health during thetime of World War Two.

Hear about the experiences of being admitted to the incurable ward in the 19th century.

Find out more about women and madness in the 19th century.

See Bethlem's contributions to the History of the World in 100 Objects.

Here we learn more about the process of being admitted to Bethlem in the Georgian period.

See inside the dome of the Imperial War Museum, former home to Bethlem.

Find out more about how you might have found yourself at bethlem during the Georgian period.

This short series looks at the very different experiences of several of Victorian Bethlem’s female patients regarding marriage.

Read more from the fascinating 'Madness and Literature' conference.

During the nineteenth century Bethlem's hospital population became increasingly middle-class, and improvements in its conditions may have had something to do wi

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

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