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Bedlam is the former name of Bethlem Royal Hospital, one of the first psychiatric hospitals in Western Europe.

Bedlam may also refer to:

• Bedlam, North Yorkshire, a village in England
• Bedlam, Shropshire, a small hamlet near Bitterley in Shropshire, England
• Bedlam Furnaces, iron works which existed in the Ironbridge Gorge during the industrial revolution, in Shropshire
• The Bedlam Series, the NCAA College Sports rivalry between the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University
• Bedlam Theatre, the venue of the Edinburgh University Theatre Company and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
• Bedlam, the nickname for Institute F.C.'s Riverside Stadium
• Bedlam (film), a 1946 movie starring Boris Karloff
• Bedlam cube, a toy invented by Bruce Bedlam
• UFC 85: Bedlam, a mixed martial arts pay-per-view event

In music:

• Bedlam Ballroom, a 2000 album by the Squirrel Nut Zippers
• "Boys Of Bedlam", a song based on the poem "Tom O' Bedlam", by Steeleye Span from their album Please to See the King
• "Bedlam Boys", a song also based on "Tom O' Bedlam", by Old Blind Dogs
• Bedlam, a Horrorcore rap group
• Bedlam (EP), by metal band Twilightning
• Back to Bedlam, a 2004 album by British musician James Blunt
• The Bedlam in Goliath, a 2008 album by The Mars Volta
• "Bedlam in Belgium", a song by hard rock band AC/DC from their album Flick of the Switch
• "Bedlam 1-2-3", a song by thrash metal band Exodus
• "Lords of Bedlam", a song by metal band Hollenthon
• "Bedlam Bridge", a song from the album Blue Sky Mining by Australian pop-rock band Midnight Oil
• "Pure Bedlam for Halfbreeds", a song by experimental metal band Polkadot Cadaver on their album Purgatory Dance Party
• Bedlam sound system, a former UK-based music collective
• "Marching Off to Bedlam", a song on the album They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!, by Napoleon XIV

In literature:

• Bedlam, a science fiction novel by John Brosnan
• Bedlam Planet, a science fiction novel by John Brunner
• Bedlam (comics), a Marvel Comics mutant character
• Tom of Bedlam, a character in Shakespeare's play King Lear; a disguise of Edgar, the legitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester
• Bedlam, a psychiatric hospital in the book Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
• The Bedlam, a mentally impaired character in the play The Roses of Eyam
• "Tom O'Bedlam", an anonymous poem written circa 1600

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