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The history of the Bethlem Royal Hospital spans hundreds of years, bringing us right up to the present day. As such it can give an account of...

This month we look at the gaze of the sitters in Henry Hering's series of photographs of patients at Bethlem.

This month In the Frame goes on holiday yet again, this time to Brussels to highlight a work of art which has no direct connection to Bethlem or the Maudsley, b

On 3rd July, a new exhibition opens at the Bethlem Gallery, showcasing young people's artwork on the theme of identity. Young artists from Bethlem...

The 48th Maudsley Debate took place earlier this month, to a packed audience at the Institute of Psychiatry. Indeed, the event was so busy that...

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

As our ongoing Hospital Snapshots series has explored, the new technique of photography was quickly adopted by asylum physicians from the 1850s...

Here's the first in a short series looking at Billiards at Bethlem.

As we explored in our former series, Curatorial Conversations, one of the challenges facing a museum of psychiatry is the vast number of potentially...

Here we look at the impact of setting and props in the photographs of Henry Hering.

An upcoming one-day conference at The Lightbox in Woking explores some of the relationships between, on the one hand, the appreciation and creation...

This month, Bethlem's Registrar, who has been working on creating a Stanley Lench touring exhibition, highlights one of this artist's works.