Blog - Black History Month

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

Exploring the origins of a popular 'bedlam ballad'.

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

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.

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

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