Diseases of Modern Life

Nineteenth Century Perspectives

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‘A young girl convalescing in an armchair is visited by her dog. Etching by H. Formstecher after H. Bacon.’

Now What? Surviving Serious Illness in the Nineteenth-Century

Writing in 1991, sociologist Arthur W. Frank declared that Western scientific medicine had created what he called “the remission society,” a growing number of patients whose lives were saved by medical treatment but who could not be considered cured.

Oh what a - Victorian Light - Night!

On Friday 16th November Woodstock Road was a hive of activity for "Victorian Light Night", part of both the national Being Human Festival and Oxford’s own Christmas Light Festival.

Photograph of projection from Victorian Light Night

Podcast: Victorian Light Night, an interview with The Projection Studio

How do you turn five years of research into a spectacular light and sound show?