"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. 24 Sep 2014
(Fashionable) Diseases of Modern Life On 8 May three quarters of the Diseases of Modern Life team - Melissa Dickson, Sally Shuttleworth, and Jennifer Wallis - visited Newcastle University to meet with the Fashionable Diseases team and take part in a workshop. 18 May 2015
Boating Blues With the crowds, the launches, and the world’s media watching, the Oxford and Cambridge boat race seems a fairly riotous occasion.
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 12 Oct 2015
Diseases in the News: The Heavy Burden of a Modern Age On 10th September 2016, the Diseases of Modern Life project was featured in the Dutch national newspaper Trouw. 29 Sep 2016
ERC 10th Anniversary Week The Diseases of Modern Life project was featured on the Humanities Division website as part of the ERC's 10th anniversary week celebrations and events in March. 4 Apr 2017
Keynotes from Mind Reading: Mental Health and the Written Word Both literature and clinical medicine deal with issues such as subjective identity, selfhood, and the social and cultural determinants of health and well-being. 6 May 2017
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. 16 Nov 2018
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? 1 Apr 2019
Professor Sally Shuttleworth elected as Fellow of the British Academy Many congratulations to Professor Sally Shuttleworth who has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. 17 Jun 2015
Reflecting on Victorian Light Night Three key figures - Prof. Sally Shuttleworth, Ross Ashton and Karen Monid - reflect on their experiences of Victorian Light Night. 1 Apr 2019
Sally Shuttleworth on BBC Radio 4 Professor Sally Shuttleworth has been a panellist on two BBC Radio 4 programmes broadcast on 9th March 2017. 9 Mar 2017
Sleep and Stress, a special issue of Interface Focus This issue brings together a collection of papers focussed on sleep and stress. 17 Apr 2020
Sleep and Stress, Special Issue Blog The latest issue of Interface Focus brings together a collection of papers focussed on sleep and stress. The topic is considered from both a historical and modern-day scientific perspective, with the articles spanning the sciences and humanities. 17 Apr 2020
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
The Contagion Cabaret: The Film (and Post Show Decontamination!) The Contagion Cabaret is a brilliant irreverent look at plagues and pandemics, past and present--and now it's also a film! 25 Jun 2020
The Stresses and Strains of Modern Life Professor Sally Shuttleworth's blog for the British Academy on The Stresses and Strains of Modern Life is now available to read here. 24 Jan 2017
Victorian Light Night goes to Dunedin, New Zealand Earlier this year, our Principal Investigator travelled with The Projection Studio to the University of Otago, New Zealand in order to share Victorian Light Night. 7 Sep 2020
Victorian Light Night video wins Public Engagement Award We are beyond excited to announce that 'The Victorian Speed of Life' project has won an University of Oxford Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Award. 3 Jun 2019
Victorian Light Night: The Projection Video Having suitably intrigued you about the projection shown on Victorian Light Night and/or made you sorry you missed it, we are excited to share video footage of "Victorian Speed of Life". 3 Dec 2018
Victorian Networks: The Victorian Brain Professor Sally Shuttleworth has guest edited and introduced an issue of Victorian Network, entitled The Victorian Brain. 2 Nov 2016
When Greeks Flew Kites – Sleep: A Third of Human History Our PI, Professor Sally Shuttleworth, speaks about Victorians, overwork, and quack cures for sleeplessness on the 7th January 2019 broadcast of Radio 4’s When Greeks Flew Kites. 7 Jan 2019
Why are some people afraid of cats? The language of phobia is so common today that we scarcely give it a second thought. Yet it was not until the end of the 19th century that medicine turned its attention to forms of irrational fear, following the initial medical diagnosis of agoraphobia. 13 Jan 2017
‘Wholesale poisoning by hot cross-buns’ and bizarre murders of medical men As you bite into your delicious hot cross-bun this Easter, spare a thought for the inhabitants of Inverness in 1882, who were subjected to ‘whole-sale poisoning by hot cross-buns’, with over 140 worthy citizens and children affected. 30 Mar 2018
21 Mar Conference - Mind Reading: The Role of Narrative in Mental Health This two-day programme of talks and workshops is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, UCD Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Diseases of Modern Life and Constructing Scientific Communities Projects at St Anne’s College, Oxford.
25 Nov Fright Friday at the Ashmolean Museum: Professor Shuttleworth on the Fear of Cats and Other Phobias On Friday 25 November, Professor Shuttleworth will be taking part in Fright Friday, an evening event at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford with a talk on Fear of Cats and Other Phobias. Ashmolean Museum
17 May Mind Reading 2019: Adolescence, Literature, and Mental Health Can literature and narrative improve the lives of young people?
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.
8 Feb Ruskin, Science and the Environment Please find below the schedule for our one-day conference ‘Ruskin, Science and the Environment’.
7 Dec Sleep and Stress, Past and Present Announcement A one-day interdisciplinary symposium in the Kohn Centre at the Royal Society, Sleep and Stress, Past and Present brings together expert scientists, medical practitioners, historians and literary critics to discuss intersections between sleep and stress. Kohn Centre, the Royal Society
20 Jun The Contagion Cabaret The Constructing Scientific Communities and Diseases of Modern Life projects are taking part in the Oxfordshire Science Festival with The Contagion Cabaret.
14 Nov UK Disability History Month Event: Work, Time and Stress: Historical and Contemporary Perpsectives The two talks will raise lots of ideas for discussion, including the impact of modern technologies in each period on the nature of work. Radcliffe Humanities
