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Professor Sally Shuttleworth

Sally Shuttleworth

Principal Investigator

Selected contributions

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Victorian Light Night goes to Dunedin, New Zealand

07 September 2020
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.
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The Contagion Cabaret: The Film (and Post Show Decontamination!)

25 June 2020
The Contagion Cabaret is a brilliant irreverent look at plagues and pandemics, past and present--and now it's also a film!
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Sleep and Stress, Special Issue Blog

17 April 2020
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.
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Sleep and Stress, a special issue of Interface Focus

17 April 2020
This issue brings together a collection of papers focussed on sleep and stress.
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Victorian Light Night video wins Public Engagement Award

03 June 2019
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.
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Sleep and Stress: Recordings from the Day

03 June 2019
Please see the audio files below.
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Podcast: Victorian Light Night, an interview with The Projection Studio

01 April 2019
How do you turn five years of research into a spectacular light and sound show?
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Reflecting on Victorian Light Night

01 April 2019
Three key figures - Prof. Sally Shuttleworth, Ross Ashton and Karen Monid - reflect on their experiences of Victorian Light Night.
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When Greeks Flew Kites - Sleep: A Third of Human History

07 January 2019
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.
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Victorian Light Night: The Projection Video

03 December 2018
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".
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Oh what a - Victorian Light - Night!

16 November 2018
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.
"Hot Cross-Buns!" from Illustrated London News, 1861.

'Wholesale poisoning by hot cross-buns' and bizarre murders of medical men

30 March 2018
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.