Bedlam, or Bethlem Royal Hospital to give it its full name, is actually the world’s oldest psychiatric institution. It began life in 1247 in the Priory of St Mary of Bethlehem, which stood where we now find Liverpool Street Station. Yet the hospital has inspired a range of books, films, and TV series. Its infamous […]

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