Henley Cafe Sci: Sleeplessness in the Nineteenth Century

Basingstoke Science Cafe enthusiasts are invited to the Henley Cafe Scientifique talk on “Sleeplessness in the Nineteenth Century” delivered by Professor Sally Shuttleworth.

Please try to avoid last minute bookings. It can cause lots of administration especially when we are full. Thank you

To attend, please email the Henley Café Sci organiser directly at:
[cafescihenley@gmail.com](mailto:cafescihenley@gmail.com)

SUMMARY
We hear a lot these days about an epidemic of sleeplessness sweeping the globe. This talk will place these concerns in historical perspective, examining worries about loss of sleep in the nineteenth century, and the forms of therapy and treatment adopted. Drawing on medical periodicals and texts, as well as more popular works, it will track the rise of anxieties around sleeplessness and insomnia, particularly for the ‘brain-worker’, both adult and child.

SPEAKER
Professor Sally Shuttleworth, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford previously Head of the Humanities Division. Sally has published widely on the inter-relations of medicine, science and literature.

Her books include ***The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science and Medicine, 1840-1900 ***(2010), and ***Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain ***(2019), co-author.

Currently working on a book on travel for health, In Quest of a Cure: Literary and Medical Cultures of the Health Resort, to be published by Oxford University Press next year.
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HOW TO BOOK
These events can be very popular and MUST be booked in advance.

To book your places(s) please email the Henley Café Sci organiser directly at **cafescihenley@gmail.com**. When he has confirmed your booking, please RSVP here so that we know you are coming and can look out for you.

The booking process remains as before
1. Cafe Sci announce an event by sending members this announcement email
2. You respond by requesting a registration to attend live
3. If you subsequently find you are not able to attend, please advise as often there is a waitlist
4. You attend at the newly refurbished Henley Hockey Club, where a few members bring their own cushions
5. Avoid the Tesco Car Park, gates close at 9pm.
6. If we cancel, the notice will go those who registered

TIMING AND REFRESHMENTS
Please arrive from 7pm for a 7:30 start. Usual format is 45 min talk followed by 45 Q&A. Liquid refreshments are available at the bar.
Admission is free, but the organisers ask for a voluntary contribution from about £2.

𝗗IRECTIONS:
If coming into Henley along the Reading Road turn right at the roundabout towards Tesco, then first left and left again into the hockey club car park. The entrance is near the far end.