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This month's 'In the Frame' looks at the work of Lynda Bamford.

Read more about the work of clinical assisstant, W.H.R. Rivers during his time at Bethlem in the 19th century.

Our Archivist travels to Canada to see the latest retrospective on the art of William Kurelek.

On Saturday 5 May, the new Langdon Down Museum of Learning Disability hosted a conference focused on the Normansfield Hospital. Founded in 1868...

This month's curatorial conversation looks at the recent trend in reclamation and memorialisation of asylum cemeteries.

As part of this years Museums at Night - when hundreds of museums around the country open their doors after hours - Bethlem Archives and Museum...

This month’s post (and another one to be published in July) on Charlotte Brontë in the Just Visiting series is written by our guest blogger, the Canadian author

Find out more about the portrayal of mental health in Opera.

Find out more about Anna Kavan's portrait of the 'elusive protagonist' of her novels 'Ice' and 'Mercury'.

The issue of what exactly comprises damage to the physical body appears in a number of contemporary debates within medicine and more widely...

Learn more about the history W.H.R. Rivers, doctoer to famous war poet Siegfried Sassoon.

On 2 May, a new exhibition opens at the Bethlem Gallery. Steph’s vibrant, illustrative paintings and drawings explore narrative, spontaneity...