Exploring the origins of a popular 'bedlam ballad'.
Looking at the life of one of the first identifiable black patients in Bethlem Hospital
A blog looking at the life of Henry Peardon, a patient at Bethlem between 1892 to 1894,presented as part of our Change Minds Project
A blog on the life of Richard Kettle, a patient at Bethlem in 1892, presented as part of our Change Minds project
A letter to Mary Ann Stephenson Jones, a patient at Bethlem in 1888, presented as part of our Change Minds project
A creative response to the life of Henry Peardon, a patient at Bethlem 1890-1892, presented as part of our Change Minds project
A blog on the life of Hannah Levy Bensusan, a patient at Bethlem 1893-1894, presented as part of our Change Minds project
A blog on the life of Ernest Preisig, a patient at Bethlem in 1888, presented as part of our Change Minds project
A blog on the life of Elizabeth Prudence Kentish, a patient at Bethlem 1892-1894, presented as part of our Change Minds project
This story is just as much about Jackie as it is Figgy, and so the thrills of performance are juxtaposed with the struggles of motherhood
A blog on the life of John Sibbald, a patient at Bethlem 1888-1889, presented as part of our Change Minds project
The son of a Presbyterian minister, Nathaniel Lee (born c.1649) had been educated at Winchester School and Trinity College, Cambridge
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