Diseases of Modern Life

Nineteenth Century Perspectives

Themes > pollution

Blogs

Scientific drawing of a red flower

'Pearls before swine' or heavenly messengers? The work of the Victorian Flower Missions

Flower missions – the donation, arrangement, and distribution of fresh flowers to the sick and needy – were said to have originated in the US in the late 1860s...

Punch image of advertisements in London

Stressed out? So were the Victorians.

We didn’t invent the ‘diseases of modern life’; people in Victorian England worried about anxiety and overwork, too.

Events

Principal Investigator Sally Shuttleworth presenting her projects

Project Launch Event at St Anne's College

On November 6, Professor Sally Shuttleworth’s two research projects, ‘Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives’ and ‘Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries’ were launched at St Anne’s College.