April 10, 2024
Cary Grant was a world famous film actor (born Archibald Leach) and was raised here in Bristol. Read on to discover the uniquely sad link we have with him here at Glenside.
April 10, 2024
Cary Grant was a world famous film actor (born Archibald Leach) and was raised here in Bristol. Read on to discover the uniquely sad link we have with him here at Glenside.
February 9, 2024
When the word Asylum is mentioned, all sorts of images come to mind. What impression did Glenside have on those who lived and worked there? Hear from those who worked and lived there.
May 22, 2023
Denis was a talented and ambitious graduate from the Royal College of Art. He was a patient at Glenside Hospital in the 1950’s and suffered from bouts of severe depression.
March 21, 2021
Exploring the beautifully drawn collection of portraits from the people of Epsom's hospital cluster by artist Georgia Kitty Harris.
February 15, 2021
In the ten years I have been researching the patients of the Bristol Lunatic Asylum, the thing that most struck me was the disparity between the popular view of asylums and the results of my studies.
April 19, 2020
The mysterious Lady of the Haystack. Why was Louisa admitted in 1781 to the lunatic ward of St Peters Hospital?
May 5, 2019
History portrays a neat progression from medieval and early modern supernatural belief toward the 19th-century science, but is that a simplification?
April 16, 2019
Albert James Home was born in Midsomer Norton, Somerset, then a mining town and new railway hub. The only child of William Home and Sarah Smith.
December 11, 2018
In the 80s and 90s, a very common complaint about psychiatric hospitals was that many patients were admitted numerous times; this was called the ‘revolving door problem’.
