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The early history of Bethlem featured in a well attended talk given at the Crossrail Visitor Information Centre on Wednesday evening. Project...

Two artists associated with the Archives and Museum are currently exhibiting in a new show at the Old Vic Tunnels. Bedlam is described as the...

Hear more about the exciting work of artist, Von Stropp.

At the time this post goes live on our blog, our Registrar will be speeding towards Belgium (courtesy of Eurostar) to deliver Bethlem’s contribution...

In the introduction to Medical Muses, a study of hysterical patients in the Salpêtrière Hospital in the nineteenth century, Asti Hustvedt notes...

The new series of lectures at St Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum begins in October, and includes several events that should be of interest...

We recently blogged about our new exhibition, Cheating Death and Time: the Work of Stanley Lench, which opened this week. This retrospective...

Find out more about the myths surrounding the 'Bedlam bones'.

Among the seemingly limitless corridors of the Victoria and Albert Museum, one small exhibition is well worth negotiating the maze. Two small...

Read Henry Morley's account of Bethlem in 1857.

Bethlem Archives and Museum has an impressive collection of work by artist Stanley Lench (1934-2000) that now forms an exciting exhibition at...

Read about some of the letters found in the Victorian Bethlem casebooks.