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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.

As readers of this blog will probably be aware, we at the Archives and Museum are preparing to move in 2014. At present, we are working on designs...

Raw Materials: Work from Wood opens on Wednesday 29 May at the Bethlem Gallery. This exhibition of work from wood has been created by Sue Burbidge...

Last Thursday, we opened up after hours for Museums at Night 2013. We managed to squeeze a record number of visitors into the small space to...

At the start of the nineteenth century, Bethlem’s Governors began actively seeking new premises for the Hospital.

As mentioned in a recent post to our  In the Frame thread, Oliver Sacks devotes a chapter of his recent book Hallucinations to recounting the...

It’s easy to assume that, once inside in an asylum, Victorian patients had no rights whatsoever. Many were, however, well able to communicate...