Past, Present, or Fiction?: Playing Mind-Boggling Medical History Monday 3 June 2019 The room is quiet. Groups of students – year ten mostly – have just been given little piles of cards to sort through. Each card has a statement about medicine.
Podcast series: Diseases in Dialogue Monday 3 June 2019 Researchers from the ERC-funded "Diseases of Modern Life" project at the University of Oxford join experts from a range of fields to discuss some of the major questions surrounding scientific, technological and medical developments.
Podcasts: Recordings from Solitude and Modernity colloquium Monday 3 June 2019 The ‘Solitude and Modernity’ colloquium was co-sponsored by ‘Diseases of Modern Life’ (Oxford) and ‘Pathologies of Solitude’ (Queen Mary University of London).
Victorian Light Night video wins Public Engagement Award Monday 3 June 2019 We are beyond excited to announce that 'The Victorian Speed of Life' project has won an University of Oxford Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Award.
Videos from Mind Reading 2019: Adolescence, Literature, and Mental Health Monday 3 June 2019 See the videos from our conference, Mind Reading: Adolescence, Literature and Mental Health
'Such a Pair – The Twin Lives of Humans and Trees', Catherine Charlwood's Hay Festival Lecture Thursday 30 May 2019 Catherine won the 2019 ASLE/INSPIRE Literature and Sustainability Lecture Competition, giving her the opportunity to present her research at the Hay Festival.
Collaborating with the Thomas Hardy Society Monday 20 May 2019 The last blog post introduced why we created GCSE resources, while this one explains how we've used them in events with teachers and students.
Creating Research-Based GCSE English Resources: How Scholars of the Nineteenth Century can Help Schoolteachers Wednesday 15 May 2019
Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars in Trinity Term 2019 Thursday 11 April 2019 Our final seminar series of the project is announced.
Podcast: Victorian Light Night, an interview with The Projection Studio Monday 1 April 2019 How do you turn five years of research into a spectacular light and sound show?
Reflecting on Victorian Light Night Monday 1 April 2019 Three key figures - Prof. Sally Shuttleworth, Ross Ashton and Karen Monid - reflect on their experiences of Victorian Light Night.
Tales of Two Jameses: Literature, science and medicine at the end of the nineteenth century Tuesday 26 February 2019 As a research assistant with Diseases of Modern Life, I will be looking at fin-de-siècle representations of mental illness and addiction, especially as these afflictions were conceived as being transferred among hereditary lines.
Pre-Printed Diaries and Almanacs: An Aid to Managing the Diseases of Modern Life? Monday 18 February 2019 Hannah Wills, our new Research Assistant, introduces her work on Victorian diaries.
Podcast: #Ruskin200 - Ruskin, Science and the Environment Monday 28 January 2019 You can listen to our #Ruskin200 podcast here.
When Greeks Flew Kites – Sleep: A Third of Human History Monday 7 January 2019 Our PI, Professor Sally Shuttleworth, speaks about Victorians, overwork, and quack cures for sleeplessness on the 7th January 2019 broadcast of Radio 4’s When Greeks Flew Kites.
Podcast - Victorian Light Night: Collaborating with Cheney School Sunday 16 December 2018 Today we released a podcast detailing our work with Cheney School as part of Victorian Light Night.
Victorian Light Night: The Projection Video Monday 3 December 2018 Having suitably intrigued you about the projection shown on Victorian Light Night and/or made you sorry you missed it, we are excited to share video footage of "Victorian Speed of Life".
Death and Disease Behind the Counter Friday 30 November 2018 This term, the Diseases of Modern Life team showcased their research at two major public engagement events – our Victorian Speed Late at the Museum of the History of Science and Victorian Light Night with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities.
Oh what a - Victorian Light - Night! Friday 16 November 2018 On Friday 16th November Woodstock Road was a hive of activity for "Victorian Light Night", part of both the national Being Human Festival and Oxford’s own Christmas Light Festival.
All about those ballads (ft. Oskar Cox Jensen) Friday 2 November 2018 Dr. Oskar Cox Jensen is an Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the History Department at QMUL, an expert in British song of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a novelist, and he is also a singer of ballads!
On the Subject of Speed... Thomas Hardy Tuesday 23 October 2018 Born in 1840 in rural Dorset but writing up until his death in 1928, English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy witnessed dramatic social, scientific and technological changes.
Sneak Preview of Victorian Speed! Thursday 11 October 2018 On the evening of Thursday 18th October, the Museum of the History of Science will be throwing open its doors for a special event – Victorian Speed: The Long History of Fast Living.
