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Christmas card from a Victorian periodical

Christmas and the Victorian Medical Press

The release of The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) – a film which tells the story of how Charles Dickens penned A Christmas Carol in 1843 – has reignited the popular myth that the Victorians ‘created’ the festive season.
19 Dec 2017
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Reading the Victorian Press

Reading Victorian periodicals is one of the most important aspects of our work on the “Diseases of Modern Life” project.
5 Nov 2014
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Working with 19th Century Medical and Health Periodicals Workshop featured in The Lancet

Medical Periodicals: Mining the Past, by Oxford based science writer Georgina Ferry, has been published in The Lancet (Volume 385, number 9987, 27 June 2015)
30 Jun 2015
“Hot Cross-Buns!” from Illustrated London News, 1861.

‘Wholesale poisoning by hot cross-buns’ and bizarre murders of medical men

As you bite into your delicious hot cross-bun this Easter, spare a thought for the inhabitants of Inverness in 1882, who were subjected to ‘whole-sale poisoning by hot cross-buns’, with over 140 worthy citizens and children affected.
30 Mar 2018

Events

7 Oct
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Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars - Michaelmas Term 2014

We are very pleased to announce the first three seminars in our Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series. Drinks will be served after each seminar and all are welcome.
St. Anne's College
9 Jun
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Workshop Report: Working with 19th-Century Medical and Health Periodicals

'Working with 19th-Century Medical and Health Periodicals' was held on 30 May 2015 and co-organized by the ERC-funded ‘Diseases of Modern Life’ Project and the AHRC-funded ‘Constructing Scientific Communities’ Project, both based at St Anne’s College.
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Projects

30 May
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Working with Nineteenth-Century Medical and Health Periodicals

The nineteenth century saw an explosion in the number of medical periodicals available to the interested reader. Publications such as the Lancet and British Medical Journal are familiar names to many of us, still published and widely read today.
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