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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".

This term, the Diseases of Modern Life team showcased their research at two major public engagement events - our Victorian Speed Late at the Museum of the History of Science and Victorian Light Night with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities.

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.

Dr. Oskar Cox Jensen is an Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the History Department at QMUL, an expert in British song of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a novelist, and he is also a singer of ballads!

Born in 1840 in rural Dorset but writing up until his death in 1928, English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy witnessed dramatic social, scientific and technological changes.

On the evening of Thursday 18th October, the Museum of the History of Science will be throwing open its doors for a special event - Victorian Speed: The Long History of Fast Living.

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

In 1892, the Lancet launched an inquiry into the dangers of retail work.

It was Mental Health Awareness Week last week, and I've been looking back at the July 2017 Inquiry Report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (#ArtsHealthWellbeing).

Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown, Dr Hosanna Krienke, and Dr Sarah Green recently led a post-performance panel discussion for Creation Theatre's production of Dracula, which was staged at Blackwell's Bookshop.

Last night The Contagion Cabaret brought its infectious entertainment to audiences at the Science Museum's 'Superbugs' Late.

The advance Open Access copy of Jennifer Wallis's article on late Victorian inebriate homes for women, is now available here.

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.

In the age of smartphones, broadband internet access, and cheap(ish) air travel, the vision of the 'global village', appears to have become a reality.

This is the full video from our Contagion Camera event from 2 February, 2018. See more at Contagion Camerata

Interviews with local students who composed music around themes of contagion, medicine, and science.

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.

'He is an utter and bombastic fraud. He rolls spluttering and crackling onto the English dinner-table at Yuletide, a sprig of English holly cocked jauntily in his cap, well nigh bursting his rotund body in swaggering sham patriotism.'

The release of The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) - a film which tells the story of how Charles Dickens penned A Christmas Carol in 1843 - has reignited the popular myth that the Victorians 'created' the festive season.

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.

See the videos from the day below

My research aims to uncover the lesser-known twists and turns in this narrative, to explore both the hopes and the frustrations, the anxieties as well as the excitement which were associated with telegraphy in nineteenth-century Europe.

If you don't have sex, you will be better at something else.