Blog - Personal Accounts

Personal recollections of Bethlem contributed by Sue Grime (née Gifford), of a childhood spent playing in Bethlem's extensive grounds.

Read the latest news from our Manisons in the Orchard project.

Find out more about Valentine's Day at Bethlem.

This is the last in a series of posts which has been running throughout 2013 called Telling Admissions.

This month we look at the experiences of Psychiatrist Patrick Wakeling when he became a psychiatric patient.

Find out more about Alistair Campbell's experiences of mental ill-health.

This is the third of six posts in a thread devoted to the stories of those who have gone on the record to talk about their experiences of psychiatric hospitalis

This month we look at Adam Ant and his relationship with mental ill-health.

This new thread is devoted to first-hand accounts of what it was like to have been admitted to a psychiatric hospital (‘sectioned’) under the UK Mental Health A

Read about some of the letters found in the Victorian Bethlem casebooks.

We're hoping the weather picks up soon for this weekend's Bethlem site open day - the annual Sunfayre. Open to all, there will be activities...

Gail Hornstein, Professor of Psychology at Mount Holyoake College and sometime visitor to the Archives & Museum, makes passing reference to our...