Please note the Museum is closed from 22 December 2024 to 1 January 2025 inclusive.Last day open 2024: Saturday 21 December. First day open 2025: Thursday 2 January.
This month's 'In the Frame' goes on holiday to Gent. Find out what our Archivist has to say about one of their installations.
UK-based blog readers may be interested in the Woman's Hour Drama to be broadcast each weekday next week on Radio 4 at 10.45am (repeated at 7.45pm...
Find out more about the novels of historic patient, Antonia White.
Learn about the interesting work that has been going on at the University of Glamorgan looking at 'medicine at the margins'.
This month we look at the accounts of Antonia White from 1899-1980.
You might remember that, last September, the Imperial War Museum opened up the dome (formerly the chapel of Bethlem Hospital) for Open House...
See some of the challenges of reading early modern records.
Find out more about Herbrand Ignouville-Williams' work and the mescaline experiments conducted in the 1930s.
Jane Fradgley's first solo show runs at the Bethlem Gallery from 13 April until 7 May 2011. This exhibition of photographic works is informed...
Read about Bethlem's Assistant Medical Officer from 1888 to 1898.
Occupational therapy is ‘an active method of treatment with a profound psychological justification’, variously linked to moral, punitive and...
As previously announced on this blog, around forty early career researchers from around the world recently attended a conference at the Wellcome...
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