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Blog - Life In A Victorian Asylum

Bethlem’s changing population

History

During the nineteenth century Bethlem's hospital population became increasingly middle-class, and improvements in its conditions may have had something to do wi

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Developing domesticity in Victorian Bethlem

History

Following investigation and subsequent reform in the early half of the nineteenth century (1815 and 1852), Bethlem Hospital increasingly became a very domestic

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