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Victorians

Diseases in Dialogue

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?
Diseases in Dialogue

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?
Diseases in Dialogue

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?
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

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.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Shakespeare and the Victorians

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Professor of English Literature, Oxford, gives a talk for Shakespeare Oxford 2016 series.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

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.

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