Time Team Special 58 - The Madness of Bedlam (2013)

Sunday 1st December 2013



Time Team Special 58 - The Madness of Bedlam



Seven hundred years ago the world's first lunatic asylum opened for business in Bishopsgate, London. It soon became known as Bedlam Hospital. Even today, it's a name that conjures up images of madness and terror. And as Tony Robinson discovers in this Time Team Special, Bedlam's reputation is quite justified. The abuses that went on here in the name of medicine were enough to drive the most robust individuals to lunacy. Now, thanks to the redevelopment of Liverpool Street station for London's Crossrail, a new dig beside the site of the original hospital is uncovering numerous bodies in a medieval graveyard.

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