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On 10th September 2016, the Diseases of Modern Life project was featured in the Dutch national newspaper Trouw.

This is the full video from our Contagion Camera event from 2 February, 2018. See more at Contagion Camerata

We are very happy to be featuring a guest post from Alex Hailey, who has kindly agreed to introduce to our readers the India Office Medical Archives at the British Library.

This is a guest post by Agnes Arnold-Forster, a third-year PhD candidate in the History Department at King’s College London. Agnes's research, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, looks at cancer in Britain, from 1792 to 1914

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