Blog - Personal Accounts

Part two of a blog on the life of William Charles Chard, patient at Bethlem 1887-1888, presented as part of our Change Minds Online project

Part one of a blog on the life of William Charles Chard, patient at Bethlem 1887-1888, presented as part of our Change Minds Online project

A blog on the life of Frances Hales, patient at Bethlem 1887-1888, presented as part of our Change Minds Online project

A blog on the life of Emily 'Minnie' Rausch, patient at Bethlem 1887-1888, presented as part of our Change Minds Online project

A blog on the life of Louisa Lyte Skipper (nee Brittenden), patient at Bethlem 1887-1888, presented as part of our Change Minds Online project

A blog on the life of Elizabeth Vigars, patient at Bethlem 1887-1888, presented as part of our Change Minds Online project

A blog on the life of Dorothy Leese, patient at Bethlem 1887-1888, presented as part of our Change Minds Online project

A blog on the life of Arundel Shoard, patient at Bethlem 1887-1888, presented as part of our Change Minds Online project

A blog on the life of Leonora Mottram (nee Cane), patient at Bethlem 1887-1888, presented as part of our Change Minds Online project

For Museum Week, Glass Artist & Bethlem Gallery volunteer Xavier White recalls the day he joined a Museum of the Year photoshoot with Museum of the Mind staff

One of our most distinct archive voices is that of Joan Rosalind Gunther.

You may think that an escape from the locked wards at Bethlem would be an elaborately planned event, not so in the case of Lawrence Walkerlaw in 1813...