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Creative Commons |
The Gut-Brain Connection |
Why is digestive health so central to our understanding of who we are? How has this changed since the nineteenth century? How did Victorians perceive the gut-brain connection? What does science tell us now? |
Emilie Taylor-Brown, Katerina Johnson |
24 Jun 2019 |
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A Networked Age |
What does it means to live in a networked age? Was the electric telegraph a forerunner of the internet? Have the benefits of new means of communication been universal? Is the long-awaited ‘global village’ still on the horizon? |
Grant Blank, Jean-Michel Johnston |
24 Jun 2019 |
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Surgical Consent |
How has the relationship between doctor and patient changed since the nineteenth century? Did Victorian surgeons take their patients’ wishes seriously? How have the regulations surrounding surgical consent changed? |
Ashok Handa, Sally Frampton |
24 Jun 2019 |
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A Lost Victorian Utopia: Living to 100 |
An exploration of a Victorian blue-print for a city of health and happiness, where everyone could live to 100. |
Sally Shuttleworth |
13 Jun 2018 |
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Creative Commons |
Shakespeare and the Victorians |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Professor of English Literature, Oxford, gives a talk for Shakespeare Oxford 2016 series. |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst |
19 Oct 2016 |
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Beauty and the Victorians |
'Buying beauty in the Victorian period' Dr Jessica Clark looks at the Victorian beauty industry, and the transition from disapproval of artifice to a celebration of the wonders of cosmetics. |
Jess Clark |
09 Jul 2015 |
