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A blog on the life of Louisa Lyte Skipper (nee Brittenden), patient at Bethlem 1887-1888, presented as part of our Change Minds Online project

A blog on the life of Elizabeth Vigars, patient at Bethlem 1887-1888, presented as part of our Change Minds Online project

A blog on the life of Dorothy Leese, patient at Bethlem 1887-1888, presented as part of our Change Minds Online project

A blog on the life of Arundel Shoard, patient at Bethlem 1887-1888, presented as part of our Change Minds Online project

A blog on the life of Leonora Mottram (nee Cane), patient at Bethlem 1887-1888, presented as part of our Change Minds Online project

A blog on the life of Thomas Stringer, patient at Bethlem 1887-1888, presented as part of our Change Minds Online project

A blog on the life of William Carnie Jnr, a patient in Bethlem 1887-1888, by a participant in the Change Minds Online project

'Bedlam' appears in the second series of Harlots, but is this Georgian Bethlem as we know it?

A post introducing research on black lives in the Bridewell Hospital records

So what relationship did Bethlem have with Black Londoners - was it open to them, or did it only look to exclude minority ethnic communities?

However there is one way that these important businessmen would have had a connection to black lives, and that is through their connections to the slave trade.

No general hospital for the mentally ill had used this plan in England before Bethlem, but the villa system was well established in Europe already