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Looking at the life of one of the first identifiable black patients in Bethlem Hospital

Exploring the origins of a popular 'bedlam ballad'.

Looking at some of the lives of staff in SLaM's history

An introduction to our holdings

Hannah Ruth Ormsby nurse and International Brigade volunteer

A grant funded project focussed on centring lived experience, supporting co-curation and forging new professional relationships

One of our museum volunteers gives a bit of background and a personal reflection on Kurelek's "Out of the Maze."

Our volunteer takes an in-depth look at the use of photography at Bethlem Royal Hospital, from its invention to the late 1800s.

The First World War had a very direct impact on both Bethlem and the Maudsley.

Two people with close relationships with Bethlem Royal Hospital had fascinating, and very different, experiences in the First World War

During the Second World War the Maudsley, concerned about the possibility of being caught up in the air raids engulfing central London, split into two.

Thomas Barclay Hennell was born in 1903, and had by his mid 20s become an accomplished and sensitive artist of the British countryside.