Blog - History

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. 

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

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.

With the rise of electricty in the late nighteenth century, many Bethlem patients reported hallucinations associated with the telephone. 

Earlier this month this blog encouraged people to come to the Archives & Museum to see Caius Gabriel Cibber’s statues of Raving and Melancholy...