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• Diseases of Modern Life at the St Anne’s College Family Day
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• Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars - Michaelmas Term 2014
• The Dogs' Bach
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• Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century - Seminars in Hilary Term 2015
• The Brain Child of Mariano Luigi Patrizi
• Season's Greetings
• Working with Nineteenth-Century Medical and Health Periodicals
• 'Pearls before swine' or heavenly messengers? The work of the Victorian Flower Missions
• Has the Piano been Drinking?
• An Early Episode in the History of Electrotherapy in Japan
• About Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth Century Perspectives
• Inside Passengers: The Girl's Own Paper Looks Inside the Body
• Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century - Seminars in Trinity Term 2015
• The Psychic Pianist
• Boating Blues
• Introducing the India Office Medical Archives Project
• Working with 19th-century Medical and Health Periodicals
• (Fashionable) Diseases of Modern Life
• Workshop Report: Working with 19th-Century Medical and Health Periodicals
• New Directions in Drinking Studies, a conference at the University of Leicester
• Working with 19th Century Medical and Health Periodicals Workshop featured in The Lancet
• Professor Sally Shuttleworth elected as Fellow of the British Academy
• Be Still My Beating Heart
• Oxford Open Doors
• ‘Sweet oblivious antidotes’? Lady Perfume drinkers of the late 19th century
• Crackpot File Revisited
• Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Michaelmas Term 2015
• Call for Papers: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century, 10-11 September 2016 at St Anne's College
• Captivating Respiration: the 'Breathing Napoleon'
• Report: Workshop on the History of Medicine, Society and the Body
• Requiem for a Cliché
• 'Solitary midnight inebriates': Alcohol and the professional man
• Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Hilary Term 2016
• Picked Up on Broadway
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• The Menace of the Barber Shop
• Medicine & Media: A Gathering of Francophone and Anglophone Projects in Medicine and the Humanities
• This is Your Brain on Speed
• Guest blog: The Tragedy of Amy Levy
• Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century
• Medicine and Modernity: Conference Registration Open
• Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016
• Electric Stair-Climbers and Mobility in the Nineteenth Century
• 'British moths', 'Old wedding cake'. An unusual museum taxonomy.
• Something in the Air?
• Stormy Weather and Human Barometers
• Objects of Research: The Material Turn in Nineteenth-Century Literary Studies
• The Victorians had the Same Concerns about Technology as We Do
• A Very Trump of Doom: How the Simple Stethoscope Transformed Medial Diagnosis
• The Living and the Dead captures Victorian anxieties about science and the supernatural
• Medicine and Modernity Conference Report and Keynotes videos
• Cocaine and Chloroform: Technologies of Pain and Progress in Victorian Medicine
• Nerve-Exhausted but not Insane: Therapeutic Travel for the Over-Taxed Brain Worker
• Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown to join the team
• Diseases in the News: The Heavy Burden of a Modern Age
• Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars for Michaelmas Term 2016
• Victims of Civilization: The Stammerer's Identity in Victorian Britain
• Medicine and Modernity, Conference 2016
• Call for Papers: Doctor-doctor: Global and historical perspectives on the doctor-patient relationship
• Pathology of Progress: Cancer in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• Victorian Precocity as a Modern Complaint
• Containing Our 'Multitudes' and Negotiating Gastrointestinal Health in the Modern World
• Fright Friday at the Ashmolean Museum: Professor Shuttleworth on the Fear of Cats and Other Phobias
• A Disease-Free World: The Hygienic Utopia
• Victorian Networks: The Victorian Brain
• Worked to the Point of Madness
• ‘Drooping with the Century’: Fatigue and the Fin de Siècle
• Pills for Our Ills: Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People
• Goblins and Indigestion: the Tale of the Christmas Microbe
• Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars for Hilary Term 2017
• Mind Reading: Mental Health and the Written Word
• Why are some people afraid of cats?
• The Stresses and Strains of Modern Life
• Doctor, Doctor: Global and Historical Perspectives on the Doctor-Patient Relationship - One-day Symposium - Registration now open
• Magic Lantern and Science Workshop
• Lunchtime Talk: Germs Revisited
• ERC 10th Anniversary Week
• ERC 10th Anniversary Projects
• Victorian Dietetics and Sugar-Free February
• Confessions of an English Green Tea Drinker: Sheridan Le Fanu and the Medical and Metaphysical Dangers of Green Tea
• Sally Shuttleworth on BBC Radio 4
• Professor Femi Oyebode and the Poetry of Disquiet
• Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars for Trinity Term 2017
• Something in the Air: Dr Carter Moffat’s Ammoniaphone and the Victorian Science of Singing
• Keynotes from Mind Reading: Mental Health and the Written Word
• The Contagion Cabaret
• Video of Germs Revisited
• Stressed out? So were the Victorians.
• A Medical Student's Perspective...
• Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars in Michaelmas Term 2017
• Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars
• Mind Reading Conferences
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• Songs, Cakes, and Games: Thoughts on Performing, Baking, and Playing Our Research at Oxford's Curiosity Carnival
• Sound Talking - A One Day Event at the London Science Museum
• American Historical Association’s The Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the history of journalism awarded to Amelia Bonea
• Not Having Sex in the Victorian Period
• UK Disability History Month Event: Work, Time and Stress: Historical and Contemporary Perpsectives
• ‘Fake News’: Insights from the NPHFI’s Tenth Annual Conference, Newcastle University, 10-11 November 2017
• Christmas and the Victorian Medical Press
• The Proof is in the Pudding: A Bah! Humbug! Victorian Christmas
• Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars in Hilary Term 2018
• Now What? Surviving Serious Illness in the Nineteenth-Century
• Join us for a Contagion Camerata
• 'Mind Boggling Medical History' Card Game Launch Event
• Conference - Mind Reading: The Role of Narrative in Mental Health
• The Contagion Cabaret at the British Academy
• ‘Wholesale poisoning by hot cross-buns’ and bizarre murders of medical men
• Mind Boggling Medical History
• The Contagion Cabaret
• Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars in Trinity Term 2018
• A Home or a Gaol? Scandal, Secrecy, and the St James’s Inebriate Home for Women
• The Contagion Cabaret at the Science Museum (London)
• Dracula and Modern Life
• Creative Health; or, what would Vernon Lee have to say to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing?
• 'Sanitation on the Shop': Health and Retail Work in Late Victorian Britain
• The Magic Mango
• Victorian Speed: The Long History of Fast Living
• Resuscitation, Reanimation and the Modern World
• Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars in Michaelmas Term 2018
• Sneak Preview of Victorian Speed!
• On the Subject of Speed... Thomas Hardy
• Victorian Speed – Time Flies When You’re Having FUN!
• All about those ballads (ft. Oskar Cox Jensen)
• Victorian Light Night
• Sleep and Stress, Past and Present Announcement
• Oh what a - Victorian Light - Night!
• Death and Disease Behind the Counter
• Victorian Light Night: The Projection Video
• Podcast - Victorian Light Night: Collaborating with Cheney School
• Sleep and Stress, Past and Present
• Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars in Hilary Term 2019
• Ruskin, Science and the Environment
• Podcast: #Ruskin200 - Ruskin, Science and the Environment
• Pre-Printed Diaries and Almanacs: An Aid to Managing the Diseases of Modern Life?
• Mind Reading 2019: Adolescence, Literature, and Mental Health
• Podcast: Victorian Light Night, an interview with The Projection Studio
• Free Teacher Workshop: Engaging Students in C19th Prose
• Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars in Trinity Term 2019
• Colloquium - ‘Solitude and Modernity’
• Free Workshop for GCSE English Language Students!
• Creating Research-Based GCSE English Resources: How Scholars of the Nineteenth Century can Help Schoolteachers
• Collaborating with the Thomas Hardy Society
• GCSE English Language Resources
• Ruskin, Science and the Environment
• Sleep and Stress
• Podcast series: Diseases in Dialogue
• Solitude and Modernity, Conference 2019
• Podcasts: Recordings from Solitude and Modernity colloquium
• Full video from Contagion Camerata
• Victorian Light Night video wins Public Engagement Award
• Victorian Speed
• Sleep and Stress: Recordings from the Day
• When Greeks Flew Kites – Sleep: A Third of Human History
• Alyson Slade
• Videos from Mind Reading 2019: Adolescence, Literature, and Mental Health
• Primary and Secondary Sources Database
• 'Such a Pair – The Twin Lives of Humans and Trees', Catherine Charlwood's Hay Festival Lecture
• Past, Present, or Fiction?: Playing Mind-Boggling Medical History
• Videos from the Conference 'Sound Talking'
• Contagion Cabaret, Meet our Student Composers video
• Reflecting on Victorian Light Night
• The Contagion Cabaret: The Film (and Post Show Decontamination!)
• Victorian Light Night goes to Dunedin, New Zealand
• PI Sally Shuttleworth explores how "stress caused sleeplessness for the Victorians too" on The Conversation
• What unites Victorian and modern sleep researchers? -- An Oxplore Podcast
• Sleep and Stress, Special Issue Blog
• Sleep and Stress, a special issue of Interface Focus
• Along the Lines event and blog post
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