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Valentine’s Day at Bethlem

History, Literature, Personal accounts

Find out more about Valentine's Day at Bethlem.

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Launching the Edward Adamson Festival!

Art, History, News

The Edward Adamson Festival, launching on Wednesday 12 February, is a celebration of the life and work of artist Edward Adamson (1911-1996...

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Virtual Book Club I

Literature

There’s no doubt about it - abandoned asylum buildings can be haunting, ominous places.  Read more about James Scudamore's 'Wreaking'.

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In the Frame for February 2014: Figgy Fox’s ‘Alone’

Collection

This month's 'In the Frame' comes from one of our work placement volunteers who came to help us out for a week in January.  Rory has chosen “Alone” by Figgy Fox

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Mansions in the Orchard: If walls could talk

Exhibitions

Last week was the final week of our first display associated with the Mansions in the Orchard project (supported by the Wellcome Trust). Held...

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Good news and bad news…

Art, Competition

The bad news is that I'm sorry to say that we were unsuccessful in our efforts to win the chance to work with the photographer, Rankin.  However...

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Caption This I

Art, Collection

As part of a new series on our blog, we are looking for your thoughts on captions for some of the artworks in our collection. We're working on...

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The Advertisement Archive V

Collection

Stray advertisements from the Journal of Mental Science.

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Connect 10 - last few days of voting!

Competition

As you'll have seen from our post last week we're in the running to win the chance to work with acclaimed photographer, Rankin.  Voting closes...

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We Are Not Amused I

Collection, History

Read the first of Dr Nick Hervey's blogs about a range of people who got too close for Her Majesty's comfort between 1837 and 1852.

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Virtual Book Club: Introduction

Literature

On this blog over the past three years, we have briefly reviewed or referred to many works of classic and contemporary fiction that concern themselves...

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Vote for us!!

Collection, Competition, News

You may remember us announcing back in December that we have been shortlisted to win a day working with the photographer, Rankin.  Well, the...

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