February 9, 2024
Hear from long-stay patients who lived at the hospital, and a variety of staff who worked there.
January 17, 2024
This article explores what we can glean about those who wrote the records of the Bristol Lunatic Asylum found at the Bristol Archives.
June 23, 2023
The Electroconvulsive Therapy concept was that seizures, or convulsions, could be beneficial in treating psychiatric illness.
June 4, 2023
The straitjacket, what is the meaning behind this device? Is it a form of care, as some claim, or a form of brutality, as others argue?
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.
May 17, 2021
Reverend Harold Nelson Burden was an early pioneer of mental healthcare for children and adults. He founded Stoke Park Colony with his first wife Katherine in 1909.
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?
