Dec 15, 2016 · Almost from the start, Bethlem was much more than a mental asylum. “It was a landmark in the City of London, right by Bishopsgate, and it was also one of the very first to specialise in...

May 12, 2022 · Bedlam: a scene of uproar and confusion, a noisy situation with no order or, originally, the slang name for a mental hospital in London… which also happened to be a popular tourist …

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 …

The word "bedlam", meaning uproar and confusion, is derived from the hospital's nickname. Although it became a modern psychiatric hospital, historically it was representative of the worst excesses of …

May 26, 2025 · "One can hardly imagine a human being in a more degraded and brutalised condition than that in which I found this female." These were the damning words of an inspector who visited …

Bedlam, the first asylum for the mentally ill in England. It is currently located in Beckenham, Kent. The word bedlam came to be used generically for all psychiatric hospitals and sometimes is used …

The names ‘Bethlem’ and ‘Bedlam’, by which it came to be known, are early variants of ‘Bethlehem’. It is first referred to as a hospital for ‘insane’ patients in 1403, after which it has a continuous history of …