Blog - History

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...

With over 450 years of material, the Bethlem archives are enormous. A new blog series will showcase some of its history. 

In an archive comprising half a millennia’s worth of paper records, the work of a conservator is never done. It is a slow and steady labour...