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Mary Rushton Barkas was the first female doctor employed at Bethlem Royal Hospital, and became one of the first four medical assistants at the Maudsley Hospital

Eileen Skellern was born in 1923 in Stone, Staffordshire, the eldest of three sisters.

Museum Volunter Sophia Gal kooks at the life and death of William Kurelek in this two part blog series

Museum Volunter Sophia Gal kooks at the life and death of William Kurelek in the second of this two part blog series

A warm hearted and positive person who enjoyed taking a direct approach to working with people, and who promoted patient care with great energy

The mesmerising work of Finnish artist Panu Ollikainen is on show in the UK for the first time

We can only speculate why Margaret ended up confronting George III and his retinue at the garden entrance to St James’s Palace with a blunt dessert knife

Museum Volunteer Sophia Gal looks at artist Thomas Hennell, and his experience of mental health issues and his relationship with nature

Although the mural is now lost, he was said to have used colour to depict the trees and people in such a way that a passer-by mistook it for Paradise

In the early 1840s Dr Alexander Morison, then joint physician at Bethlem, commissioned a series of portraits to illustrate his new book

Amy Allingham is one of the first patients in Bethlem for whom we have a image, and whose life story we have been able to trace in various records

Antonia White is one of the most famous former patients at Bethlem. She wrote movingly of her experience at the St George’s Fields, Southwark building