… Image Robert Hooke, ‘The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with people walking in the foreground’, Wellcome Collection Gallery, 25642i, about 1750. Image William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress … a pale fake of what was to be found in society beyond its walls, but it was an attempt at activity, promoting some kind of social cohesion within the asylum, at mixing, as it did, patients and staff, and some of the inmates, as Dickens … 1982), p. 78. Nevertheless, Bethlem had traditionally, and throughout most of the eighteenth century, afforded one kind of sociability, though not for the benefit of the inmates. This was the practice of allowing the admission of paying …