Objective-To describe trends in burn admissions to a large paediatric burn centre, between 1970 and 1994. Methods-Hospital records of the Royal Children's Hospital burns unit were audited for the years 1970-94 (n=4992), statewide hospital admissions identified from the Victorian Inpatient Minimum Database for the period, 1987-94 (n=3353), and Victorian burn deaths ascertained from the Australia...

As argued, among others, by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space (1958), a house which has been inhabited over period time becomes composite its physical structure and the mental space created residents’ thoughts, dreams memories. This article analyses two contemporary novels houses as tangible manifestations temporally remote experience provide link to Vic-torian past. Lauren Willig’s That...

Abstract The publication in 2021 of the Oxford English Texts version Oscar Wilde’s Russian melodrama Vera; or, Nihilist (1883), based, as it is, on new archival research by its editor Josephine Guy, deepens mystery surrounding alleged censorship first play. While Wilde himself promoted idea that expression democratic ideals his play had prevented performance England, a genetic analysis an early...

The new religion of Spiritualism emerged in the mid-19th century. Through mediumship, Spiritualists contacted dead, believing them to have “passed over” another plane existence. It spread from America Great Britain before arriving Australia 1850s. This article charts history world’s oldest continuously running Spiritualist organisation, Victorian Spiritualists’ Union (VSU, est. 1870), exploring...

In this article I consider the ways in which group portraits of surgeons, a genre associated with inscriptions of corporate membership and institutional authority, reflected the complex and at times contradictory status of surgeons during the late Victorian period. Group portraits from this period offer a diverse range of representations of surgeons - from middle-class professional to hygiene r...

By the mid-twentieth century, taxonomy had, like many things Victorian, become unfashionable. When Washburn (1951: 298) argued for a ‘new physical anthropology’, he described the discipline’s dominant approach of that period as ‘static, with emphasis on classification based on types’, though he did qualify that characterisation as ‘oversimplified’. The change he wanted to encourage was one of e...

George Gissing’s The Odd Women is an engrossing study of gender role expectations in the Victorian society on cusp twentieth century. It examination Nineteenth century discourses ideology. novel charts and explores life trajectories female protagonists within novel. This research paper has attempted to explicate dynamics through application a modern theoretical framework Foucauldian Discourse A...

During the late-Victorian period, campaigns to "reform" middle-class women's dress were grounded in discourses on health, eugenics, declining birth rates, comfort, and aesthetics. In Britain, the United States and Germany, organized "dress reform" movements emerged in the latter half of the 19th century, while in Canada the campaign was led primarily by physicians through public health educatio...