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Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as Bedlam, is an English psychiatric hospital that once was notorious for its atrocious treatment of mentally ill patients. Reflecting the attitude of the era, ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Archaeologists have unearthed hundreds of skeletons at a 16th Century burial ground in the heart of the city that once served London's most notorious psychiatric hospital, the ...

Bethlem Museum of the Mind tackles hospital’s history head on with displays of shackles and ankle tags, striking sculptures and paintings by patients past and present Writhing 17th-century sculptures ...

Two motion pictures played a role in the descent into disrepute and the final demise of state mental hospitals. The first was “Titicut Follies,” a 1967 documentary about inmates in the Bridgewater ...

POWERFUL portraits capture what patients looked like in Britain’s most notorious mental asylum. Victorian photographer Henry Hering is the man behind the eye-opening snaps, which put a face to some of ...

Given such institutions' accustomed reticence to television scrutiny, a lot of doors were suddenly being thrown open. The theme of Bedlam’s opening episode was “Anxiety”, a subject all of us grapple ...

OPENED in 1247, London’s oldest psychiatric hospital was dubbed “bedlam”. Now you can see what the haunting real-life conditions were inside. Others fear the empty space between letters or imagine ...

Bedlam’s theatre of the absurd continued until the end of public visits in 1770. More liberal-minded governors could also count on more civilised public attitudes to the mentally ill. Charitable ...