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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...

We welcome visits from both primary and secondary schools and whenever possible take the opportunity to talk to teachers about what we can offer...

So what does the museum’s part-time registrar do when she’s not at Bethlem? Answer - an MA in Museum Studies at UCL. A major part of the course...

In an archive comprising half a millennia’s worth of paper records, the work of a conservator is never done. It is a slow and steady labour...