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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. 

Portraits; Patients and Psychiatrists By Gemma Anderson New show at the Bethlem Gallery 19 May – 18 June 2010The new Bethlem Gallery exhibition...

We welcome visits from both primary and secondary schools and whenever possible take the opportunity to talk to teachers about what we can offer...

So what does the museum’s part-time registrar do when she’s not at Bethlem? Answer - an MA in Museum Studies at UCL. A major part of the course...

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...

There's another chance to catch the History Channel's recent documentary "Bedlam - the History of Bethlem Hospital" this week. The show, first...

This blog has been set up by the Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum and will provide regular updatest...