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Two motion pictures played a role in the descent into disrepute and the final demise of state mental hospitals. The first was “Titicut Follies,” a 1967 documentary about inmates in the Bridgewater ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In one of London's most crowded areas, just a few feet beneath the surface, the buried remains of ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Archaeologists have unearthed hundreds of skeletons at a 16th Century burial ground in the heart of the city that once served London's most notorious psychiatric hospital, the ...

Hundreds of skeletons, including the remains of patients from what was officially called Bethlem – or Bethlehem – Hospital, have been discovered in an old graveyard a few feet beneath the ground at ...

Remarkable new images have emerged of the skulls, jawbones, arms, legs and spines pulled from a historic London burial site as researchers continue excavating what they can of its estimated 20,000 ...

Archaeologists have started excavating about 3,000 skeletons from the Bedlam burial ground in London, used from 1569 to at least 1738. Also known as Bethlem and the New Churchyard, more than 20,000 ...

When Captain Craig Ward, who manages the Union County Jail, referred to the behavior of an inmate with mental illness as "bedlam," he was spot on. (The Oregonian, Mentally Ill Inmates Strain Rural ...

Bedlam’s theatre of the absurd continued until the end of public visits in 1770. More liberal-minded governors could also count on more civilised public attitudes to the mentally ill. Charitable ...

Archaeologists have started excavating about 3,000 skeletons from the Bedlam burial ground in London, used from 1569 to at least 1738. Also known as Bethlem and the New Churchyard, more than 20,000 ...