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London Lives: new online research resource

History

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

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Developing domesticity in Victorian Bethlem

History

Following investigation and subsequent reform in the early half of the nineteenth century (1815 and 1852), Bethlem Hospital increasingly became a very domestic

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Doctors visiting Bethlem

History

A new resource, European Journeys, offers the opportunity to discover more about nineteenth-century doctors and their trips abroad.

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Hallucinations and electricity in the nineteenth century

History

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

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Chance Encounters in the Museum 1

History

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

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Exploring history in the Bethlem Archives

History

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

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Conservation in the Limelight

Conservation, 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...

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