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The Victorians had the Same Concerns about Technology as We Do

We live, we are so often told, in an information age. It is an era obsessed with space, time and speed.
21 Jun 2016
Photograph of a sleeping cat

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

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