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In 1840 the French socialist and proto-feminist thinker Flora Tristan visited Bethlem. 

London Lives is a new resource that allows the public to search the records of Bridewell and Bethlem from 1689-1800. 

For over 150 years the Bethlem Hospital has collected art by its patients. The current exhibition at the Bethlem Gallery, which opened yesterday...

We're excited to see that the programme for the First Annual Health Humanities Conference on "Madness and Literature" has been announced, with...

Following investigation and subsequent reform in the early half of the nineteenth century (1815 and 1852), Bethlem Hospital increasingly became a very domestic

A new resource, European Journeys, offers the opportunity to discover more about nineteenth-century doctors and their trips abroad.

This month's selected artwork has been chosen due to the fact it is rarely on display.

Yesterday Hull History Centre played host to local schoolchildren out on a visit to celebrate National Storytelling Week. By all accounts, great...

With the rise of electricty in the late nighteenth century, many Bethlem patients reported hallucinations associated with the telephone. 

Earlier this month this blog encouraged people to come to the Archives & Museum to see Caius Gabriel Cibber’s statues of Raving and Melancholy...

With over 450 years of material, the Bethlem archives are enormous. A new blog series will showcase some of its history. 

Portraits; Patients and Psychiatrists By Gemma Anderson New show at the Bethlem Gallery 19 May – 18 June 2010The new Bethlem Gallery exhibition...