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We may think that the idea of "damage" to the physical body is self-evident, but countless historical, anthropological and social studies have...

The moving story of artist Yayoi Kusama’s lifelong battle against nightmares of obliteration - hallucinations of polka-dot patterns pervading...

Next Monday (19 March 2012), the Archivist will give a Gresham lecture at the Museum of London on the subject of unrestricted public visiting...

We don’t know whether it is literally true that we are more blogged about than blogging – we do blog rather a lot – but from time to time the...

This month's 'In the Frame' highlights a less well-known area of our collection; the lantern slides.

Challenging popular culture’s negative perception of mental health, artist George Harding’s exhibition at the Bethlem Gallery seeks to shows...

Dr Nicholas Tromans (author of Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum) visited the museum on Saturday 11 February to formally open the exhibition...

We continue with our curatorial conversations as we try to decide how our new museum will look and feel.

Antonia White’s Beyond the Glass, the last in the sequence of autobiographical novels which began with Frost in May, was briefly reviewed on...

Read the next in our series looking at biography and psychology.

Find out about sport at Bethlem and what was on offer in the 19th century.

Read more about windows and how they have historically depicted mental health.