The camera and the asylum: in the mid-19th century a society photographer took pictures of Bethlem patients in order to detect their mental health through facial expressions and features In the ...

Bethlem Royal Hospital in London is one of the oldest psychiatric hospitals in the world -- and perhaps the only one to have endured centuries of notoriety for fetters, flogging, filth and ...

The incarcerated victims were subject to some brutal "treatments" during the Victorian era POWERFUL portraits capture what patients looked like in Britain’s most notorious mental asylum. Victorian ...

Former wild man DJ Brandon Block has revealed he is now working for an NHS psychiatric hospital. The 48-year-old, who famously had a drunken spat with Ronnie Wood at the Brit Awards in 2000, announced ...

When it was rebuilt in 1676, London’s Bethlem Hospital was the most opulent mental asylum the world had ever seen – from the outside. Inside, it was another matter entirely. It was a London landmark ...

Some have suggested the red fez hat in Portrait of a Young Man may be the one worn by Richard Dadd in the Middle East before he became unwell A portrait created over 170 years ago by Richard Dadd ...

The name Bedlam is so evocative of chaos and madness, the real history of one of the world's oldest institutions for the treatment of mental illness often gets detached from its public presence. Led ...

Where have you been? Where are you going? What are you doing? Three prescient questions when slogging alongside a main road on a Thursday morning in the unplumbed depths of Beckenham — searching for ...

For more from London's art world, sign up for our new (free) newsletter and community: Londonist: Urban Palette. The Door. In the 1970s and 80s, psychiatric hospitals were still hidden, feared and ...

A Louis Wain illustration of cats singing carols Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In 1886, a little-known artist named Louis Wain contributed a rollicking illustration of festive cats to the ...

Artworks to go on display in January at Bethlem Museum of the Mind, in the world’s oldest psychiatric hospital From images of empty community rooms and a colourful canvas crammed with caricatures to a ...