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A new show opens at the Bethlem Gallery next week, showcasing the creative talent of Hospital patients. The exhibition, Unescorted #2, comprises...

Find out more about women and madness in the 19th century.

See Bethlem's contributions to the History of the World in 100 Objects.

Here we learn more about the process of being admitted to Bethlem in the Georgian period.

See the latest in our regular monthly series highlighting artworks from our collection.

In 1891, recent Bethlem physician George Savage railed against the deterministic contemporary view of mental illness in the Journal of Mental...

A new exhibition is now open at the Bethlem Gallery, the result of a project led by artist Mark McGowan, and involving patients, staff, volunteers...

See inside the dome of the Imperial War Museum, former home to Bethlem.

Find out more about how you might have found yourself at bethlem during the Georgian period.

This short series looks at the very different experiences of several of Victorian Bethlem’s female patients regarding marriage.

One of our volunteers talks about an interesting inscription written on an envelope by a patient.

One of many London buildings not usually accessible to the public is the Victorian Bethlem Hospital at the Imperial War Museum. Opened in 1815...