Hooke helped Wren rebuild London after the Great Fire in 1666, and also worked on designing London's Monument to the fire, the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Montagu House in Bloomsbury, and the infamous Bethlem Royal Hospital ( which became known as ' Bedlam ').

And " go in for insanity " he did, becoming a Clinical Assistant at the Bethlem Royal Hospital upon his return to England.

b. Mary Marshall died in 1804, after having been committed in 1799 to St Luke's Hospital and then to the Bethlem Royal Hospital, a mental asylum.

Map of London Wall, Moorgate, Moorfields and Bethlem Royal Hospital from John Rocque's Map of London, dated 1746.

The Bethlem Royal Hospital ( also known as Bedlam ) relocated from Moorfields to St. George's Fields, at the north end of Kennington, in 1815.

In 1930, the Bethlem Royal Hospital moved to Beckenham, in outer London.

Liverpool Street station was opened on 2 February 1874 by Great Eastern Railway on the site of the original Bethlem Royal Hospital, the world's oldest psychiatric hospital which was also widely known as ' Bedlam '.

The new station was designed by the Great Eastern's chief engineer, Edward Wilson, and was built by John Mowlem & Co. on a site which had been occupied by Bethlem Royal Hospital from the 13th century to the 17th century.

In June, he was transferred to the Royal Bethlem Hospital, popularly known as Bedlam.

Engraving of the eighth print of William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress depicting Inmates at Bethlem Royal Hospital | Bedlam Asylum

Europe's oldest asylum is the Bethlem Royal Hospital of London, also known as Bedlam, which began admitting the mentally ill in 1403.

In 1924 the museum moved to space in the Imperial Institute in South Kensington, and finally in 1936 the museum acquired a permanent home which was previously the Bethlem Royal Hospital in Southwark.

The building, designed by James Lewis was the former Bethlem Royal Hospital which had been vacated following the hospital's relocation to Beckenham in Kent.

A view of Bethlem Royal Hospital in 1828

The museum has occupied the former Bethlem Royal Hospital on Lambeth Road since 1936.

It is situated near Eden Park railway station and the Bethlem Royal Hospital, close to the boundary of Bromley with Croydon.

He made two lifelike human statues in Portland stone entitled " Melancholy " and " Raving Madness " for the gates of the 17th century mental hospital, known as Bedlam ( currently Bethlem Royal Hospital ), which can currently be seen in their museum ( modelli in V & A ).

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The fields were divided into three areas: the Moorfields proper, just inside the City boundaries, north of Bethlem Royal Hospital ( also known as Bedlam, the world's oldest psychiatric hospital ), and Middle and Upper Moorfields ( both also open fields ) to the north.

Map of London Wall, Moorgate, Moorfields and Bethlem Royal Hospital from John Rocque's Map of London, dated 1746

At that time, Bethlem Hospital was opposite St George's Cathedral, Southwark, one of Pugin's major buildings, where he had married his third wife, Jane, in 1848.

She was admitted to Bethlem Hospital on 20 August.

This formed part of the evidence looked at by a Select Committee of the House of Commons in 1815, the findings of which led to Haslam's dismissal and reform of the treatment of patients in the Bethlem Hospital.

He was declared insane in 1798 and was treated by Dr Thomas Munro ( 1759 – 1833 ), the chief physician to Bethlem Hospital and a specialist in mental disorders-Munro also treated King George III ( 1738 – 1820 ).

Clinically, members of the department offer expert services to the Maudsley Hospital, Bethlem Royal Hospital, King's College Hospital, Guy's Hospital and community mental health teams in the South London area.

After 20 years at Bethlem, Dadd was moved to the criminal lunatic asylum at Broadmoor, outside London.

James Tilly Matthews ( 1770 – 10 January 1815 ) was a London tea broker, originally from Wales, who was committed to Bethlem ( later Bedlam ) psychiatric hospital in 1797.

John Haslam's illustration of Matthews ' Air LoomMatthews believed that a gang of criminals and spies skilled in " pneumatic chemistry " had taken up residence at London Wall in Moorfields ( close to Bethlem ) and were tormenting him by means of rays emitted by a machine called the " Air Loom ".

She worked as a psychiatric nurse for ten years, at the South London Bethlem, Cefn Coed Hospital in Swansea and Maudsley Hospital in South London.

Map of London Wall, Moorgate, Moorfields and Bethlem Royal Hospital from John Rocque's Map of London, dated 1746.

* John Haslam, resident apothecary at Bethlem Hospital in London, produces the book Illustrations of Madness: Exhibiting a Singular Case of Insanity, And a No Less Remarkable Difference in Medical Opinions: Developing the Nature of An Assailment, And the Manner of Working Events ; with a Description of Tortures Experienced by Bomb-Bursting, Lobster-Cracking and Lengthening the Brain, the first full-length study of a single psychiatric patient ( James Matthews ) in medical history and the original description of the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.

Although the museum's south London home ( a nineteenth century building in Southwark which was previously the Bethlem Royal Hospital ) had been extended in 1966, by the end of the decade the museum was seeking additional space.

This was purchased by the City of London Corporation for the relocation of the Bethlem Royal Hospital, which had long outgrown its Lambeth home.

The series shows the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, the spendthrift son and heir of a rich merchant, who comes to London, wastes all his money on luxurious living, prostitution and gambling, and as a consequence is imprisoned in the Fleet Prison and ultimately Bethlem Hospital, or Bedlam.

* 1403 – The Bethlem Royal Hospital of London, ( Bedlam ) ( established as a hospital in 1330 ) admitted its first mentally ill patients.

As part of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust ( SLaM ) it also has close links with Bethlem Royal Hospital-the original " Bedlam ".

From the 1980s onwards the museum's Bethlem building underwent a series of multimillion-pound redevelopments, completed in 2000.

After interrupting a debate in the House of Commons by shouting " Treason " at Lord Liverpool from the Public Gallery, he was arrested and held in a secure workhouse in Tothill Fields, Westminster before being admitted to the Bethlem ( Bedlam ) psychiatric hospital on 28 January 1797.

In 1809 his family and friends petitioned for his release, on the grounds that he was no longer insane, but their petition was rejected by the Bethlem authorities.

John Haslam, the resident apothecary at Bethlem, begged to differ and maintained that Matthews ' delusions, particularly on political matters, rendered him a danger both to public figures and the general public.

It should also be noted that while Haslam kept notes on Matthews, Matthews kept notes on Haslam and his treatment in Bethlem.