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.
Here is the first of six posts concerning the rationale behind the location of the hospitals for which the Archives & Museum holds records: Bethlem, the Maudsle
Over a year ago we promised that we would let blog readers know when two new books on Edward Oxford, one of Victorian Bethlem’s most famous patients...
Here is the first instalment of the Archivist’s promised review of Inconvenient People: Lunacy Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England.Inconvenient...