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Bedlam: the asylum and beyond

Bedlam: the asylum and beyond

Exhibition

15 September 2016 - 15 January 2017

Follow the rise and fall of the mental asylum and explore how it has shaped the complex landscape of mental health today. Reimagine the institution, informed by the experiences of the patients, doctors, artists and reformers who inhabited the asylum or created alternatives to it.

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V0001645 Sir Francis Drake. Line engraving by T. de Leu after J. Rabe
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A shield for espionage: Thomas de Leu's portrait of Sir Francis Drake

21 November 2016

The iconography of Sir Francis Drake is rich and complex (Sugden and Turner). His many...

The Apocalypse arrives in America!

17 November 2016

Paper, medicine and everyday technologies in the early modern household

16 November 2016

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