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'Bedlam' appears in the second series of Harlots, but is this Georgian Bethlem as we know it?

In comparison with the Brilliant Figures exhibition that preceded it, Impatient! is far more topical. Sophia Gal explains...

Our work placement student Hong Namgoong looks at the similarities between the Anatomy of Melancholy and the Korean medical text DongUiBoGam

The end of April saw the launch of a book and DVD celebrating CoolTan Arts’ recent project with the Science Museum.  From Summer 2013 until January...

As the new Bethlem Museum of the Mind will reflect on, Bethlem – or Bedlam – continues to loom large in the public imagination, often as a lens...

Blog readers may be interested in (and may themselves wish to add) a little more comment on the “trope of the unmarried mother institutionalised...

The Archivist now concludes his long-running book review:Inconvenient People contains just one authorial intimation concerning the important...

The Archivist here continues the review of Inconvenient People which he started late last month:An attentive reading of the preface to Sarah...

Here is the first instalment of the Archivist’s promised review of Inconvenient People: Lunacy Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England.Inconvenient...