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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.

During her research for a forthcoming website on the history of learning disability, Rosie Sherrington, Social Inclusion and Diversity Adviser...

This month's 'In the Frame' looks at a photograph by the well-known society photographer, Henry Hering.

We've recently heard about an interesting event - and a new website and blog - devoted to "asylum science", with a particular focus on the nineteenth...

On the 4 September our Education Officer will be speaking at the Nicholson Gallery in Leek in connection with their current exhibition of the...