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As we prepare to celebrate the New Year, we might wonder about the different uses of dance in modern and historical healthcare. In November...

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

Now that the oil paintings held by the Archives & Museum (representing about 10% of our art collection as a whole) are available to view on the...

This is the last entry in our series 'Just Visitng'.

This month, English Heritage launched a new web resource, Disability in Time and Place, a site which uses historic buildings to explore changing...

Concluding their current film series on Mental Health, Trauma and Rehabilitation, the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School...

This month the Archivist takes In the Frame ‘on holiday’ again to feature the work of an artist who was inspired by Revelation.

Almost two years ago, one of our volunteers here at the Archives and Museum (who has since moved on to other things) wrote a post about her experiences...

We continue our look at the 19th century photographs of Henry Hering, taken at Bethlem.

The former West Riding Asylum in Wakefield, Yorkshire, was the site of the Asylum Science conference, about which we recently blogged. As has...

After more than a year's absence from the museum, for exhibitions in Brent Museum and the Nicholson Art Gallery in Leek, the Louis Wain collection...

Find out abour Robert Bulwer-Lytton's experiences of Bethlem in the 19th century.