'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... 21 Jan 2015
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. 19 Jul 2017
19 Nov 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.