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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...

Read more from the fascinating 'Madness and Literature' conference.

The Archives & Museum was recently visited by the cast of the forthcoming production at Shakespeare’s Globe, Bedlam. Playwright, Nell Leyshon...

When you’re looking back over your holiday snaps at the end of the summer, spare a thought for the cataloguers at Bethlem Royal Hospital’s Archives...

A new exhibition coming to the Bethlem Gallery later this month looks at hallucinations in Surrealist art.

We consider what the relationship between literature and madness is in the 21st century, reflection on the Madness and Literature Network Conference.

In mid-May we told you how the Archives & Museum’s Registrar uses her spare time: studying for a degree in Museum Studies, and curating a student...