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This month's post is more questions than answers, but helps us to think about how visitors to the museum may be affected by the objects on display.

December's meeting of London's Museums of Health and Medicine introduced those present to a new medical collection in London: the Royal Free...

Daniel Hack Tuke was a major figure at Bethlem in the late nineteenth century, and well-known within the field of psychiatry. Today he is often over-looked, per

Hear about one of our researchers experiences of looking into her family history.

Later this month we will bring In the Spotlight, our series of blog posts on ‘famous’ Bethlem and Maudsley patients, to a conclusion. However...

For almost 700 years, Bethlem Royal Hospital was situated in the heart of London; first of all in the City, at Bishopsgate and Moorfields, and...

Find out more about this interesting work by Bryan Charnley.

Find out more about discussions held at one of our recent consultation sessions.

Blog readers who took up last week’s invitation to identify the emotions represented in the photographic portraits of Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne...

Read the penultimate article in this current series.

Cambridge University is recreating online an experiment originally conducted by Charles Darwin with dinner party...

The Archives and Museum launches a new web learning resource this weekend, This is Your Hospital, devoted to the middle twenty years of the life...