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Air bath from thomson Ben Rhydding The Asclepiad

"Ourselves"

Last weekend provided us with an exciting opportunity to introduce our research projects to a slightly different audience than the one we usually interact with: the ladies and gentlemen who participated in Meeting Minds.

Along the Lines event and blog post

‘Along The Lines’ was an immersive, virtual workshop and performance that took place in September and October 2020.

Books open on a table

American Historical Association’s The Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the history of journalism awarded to Amelia Bonea

Amelia Bonea, Postdoctoral Research Assistants, has won the American Historical Association’s The Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the history of journalism.

Portrait of Hiraga Gennai (Keio University Library, Mita Media Center)

An Early Episode in the History of Electrotherapy in Japan

A recent visit to the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford saw me lingering a little more than usual in front of the electricity and galvanism section.

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Call for Papers: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century, 10-11 September 2016 at St Anne's College

CfP for Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century at St Anne’s College, Oxford 10th – 11th September 2016

Machinery Gallery

Electric Stair-Climbers and Mobility in the Nineteenth Century

In his book on machines and modernity in India, historian David Arnold rightly points out that ‘big technologies’ like the telegraph and the railways have received more attention from scholars than smaller, ‘everyday technologies’.

Illustrated picture of the Post Office

Reading the Victorian Press

Reading Victorian periodicals is one of the most important aspects of our work on the “Diseases of Modern Life” project.

TB screening of potential couples

Report: Workshop on the History of Medicine, Society and the Body

On 17 September 2015, in the course of a research trip to Japan, I had the pleasure of joining Prof Akihito Suzuki and a number of early career researchers at Keio University.

Strauss Telegram

Telegraphs, Electromagnetic Polkas and the Vienna New Year’s Day Concert

I remember being fascinated by the glittering chandeliers, the massive, colourful bouquets of flowers, the guests from all over the world sporting their traditional attires and, of course, the music.

Cartoon of a boy trying to send a small wrapped gift through the telegram office

The Magic Mango

Amelia Bonea’s story The Magic Mango, published by Pratham Books’ StoryWeaver, is now available in 7 languages on the StoryWeaver website https://storyweaver.org.in/stories/27150-the-magic-mango

Poster for Fake News conference

‘Fake News’: Insights from the NPHFI’s Tenth Annual Conference, Newcastle University, 10-11 November 2017

The Tenth Annual Conference of the Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland, held at the University of Newcastle on November 10-11, 2017, addressed a topic that no doubt resonates with many contemporary discussions.

Events

Figure of a sphygmograph, used to chart the pulse

Panel on Technology and Disease at the 41st Symposium of ICOHTEC

Two of our project members, Dr. Amelia Bonea and Dr. Jennifer Wallis, will be presenting aspects of their research at the 41st Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology, to be held in Braşov, Romania.

Braşov, Romania

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.

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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.

St. Anne's College