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Dec 15, 2016 · 15 December 2016. By Amanda Ruggeri,Features correspondent. Wellcome Library, London. (Credit: Wellcome Library, London) When it was rebuilt in 1676, London’s Bethlem Hospital was the most...
May 12, 2022 · ‘Bedlam’ implies a scene that is out of control, charged with instability. This is quite fitting, given the emergence of the word ‘bedlam’ as a nickname for Britain’s most notorious asylum. The Bethlem Hospital, to use its proper name, was a London landmark that, throughout the course of its shapeshifting, centuries-long history ...
Bethlem Royal Hospital was England’s first asylum for the treatment of mental illness, and for many years a place of inhumane conditions, the nickname of which – Bedlam – became a byword for mayhem or madness. It was also a popular London attraction for the morbidly entertained. Paul Chambers explores what went on inside its walls…
Oct 2, 2016 · This was the first asylum in England, founded in 1247, and it cared for the mentally ill free of charge. It still functions as a psychiatric hospital today. A current exhibition at the Wellcome...
1050-1485. From Bethlehem to Bedlam - England's First Mental Institution. This section explains the origins of the 'Bethlem', England's first hospital for the mentally ill. With its somewhat scandalous history it came to represent all institutions of its kind in the public imagination. In this section.
Sep 1, 2020 · Bedlam was an honest-to-goodness place. Ostensibly a hospital, in reality it was a mental asylum and sanatorium, built in 1676, less than 10 years after Milton released Paradise Lost. Bedlam was a place far more insane and chilling even than the most brutally savage fiction.
May 6, 2016 · 6 May 2016. The Museum of the Year award was created by The Art Fund to celebrate galleries and museums from all parts of Britain. In the second of a series of five articles on the institutions...
