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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This Record Store Day, as we celebrate the independent stores and artists that bring us all joy in one form or another, it’s an interesting time to reflect on exactly why music is so important to us.

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 ...

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 ...

An attraction at the Perth Royal Show based on an infamous London mental health institution has been condemned and there are calls to shut it down. Debuting at this year's show, the "Bethlem ...

A forthcoming film starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, is reviving the reputation of a popular illustrator known for depictions of cats that captivated Victorian ...

"He had made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves." So proclaimed the ...