We've listed some recently published monographs on our website, go have a look! Maybe consider becoming a BAVS reviewer while you're there😎 @bavs-uk.bsky.social
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Applications for the 206/27 round of the C19 Matters Fellowship @ljmuofficial.bsky.social are now open! Details and benefits below and here: victorianist.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/n.... Deadline Monday 11 May 2026; please share widely!

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Hi Anna, please contact the memberships secretary directly (you can access their details via the website).

Absolutely thrilled to share the programme for the study day that I am co-organising on the "Critical Age" in Victorian Popular Fiction. Registration link in the comments. All welcome @vpfa.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @cncsi.bsky.social

CFP: ‘CATERING FOR PEOPLE’S DESIRES AND NEEDS IN THE MUSIC HALL’ – The 3rd British Music Hall Society Conference
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Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship 2026-27
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CFP: Human–Animal Relations in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture (A special issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal) victorianist.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/c...

Registration Open: Centre for Victorian Studies Colloquium 2026 – ‘New Directions in Nineteenth-Century Studies’ victorianist.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/r...

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Applications for the BAVS/BARS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship hosted at LJMU are now open!

You can find out more about this prestigious scheme and how to apply here: bavs.ac.uk/bavs-bars-ni...

Deadline for applications: 11th May 2026

The new @bavs-uk.bsky.social newsletter is here and it is ✨stunning ✨

This refresh has been a long time in the making, with lots of work behind the scenes from me and @ireadoldbooks.bsky.social - we hope you love it as much as we do!

Read the spring issue here: bavs.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Reminder: EGM on Monday 23 March 2026 Dear BAVS members,I’m getting in touch with a reminder of our EGM next Monday, which has been called to bring the BAVS constitution in line with current practice. The EGM is open to all BAVS …

Reminder: EGM is happening on Monday 23 March 2026! Open to all BAVS members and we warmly encourage you to attend.
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Vacancy: Postdoc Position in English Literary Studies at the University of Zürich Senior Assistantship in English Literary Studies 90 % Start of employment is 1 August 2026 The English Department of the University of Zurich invites applications for a postdoctoral teaching and re…

VACANCY: Postdoc Position in English Literary Studies at the University of Zürich (Deadline: 30 March 2026)

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SYMPOSIUM: Victorian Sorority: Sisters in the Arts Wednesday 25 March 2026 10am – 4pm In celebration of Women’s History Month 2026, Watts Gallery presents a one-day symposium, Victorian Sorority: Sisters in the Arts, coinciding with our exhib…

SYMPOSIUM: Victorian Sorority: Sisters in the Arts (Wednesday 25 March 2026), with two PGR assistant places available

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BAVS Spring Newsletter: Notices for Inclusion The BAVS Newsletter Editor, Amy Waterson, and the Assistant Editor, Ruth-Anne Walbank, invite you to submit notices for inclusion in the upcoming spring BAVS newsletter. These may include CFPs, not…

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Last chance to send in notices for inclusion in the spring issue of the BAVS Newsletter! Send us your CFPS, events, news of Victorianist interest to bavsnews@gmail.com. DEADLINE: 18th March 2026.

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Last chance to send us notices for inclusion in the spring issue of the BAVS Newsletter! Send us your CFPS, events, news of Victorianist interest to bavsnews@gmail.com. DEADLINE: 18th March 2026.
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Calling all Victorianists! Do you have CFPs/events/news of Victorianist interest you want to share? Let us know at bavsnews@gmail.com and we'll circulate it to the BAVS membership in the spring newsletter. @bavs-uk.bsky.social @ruthannereads.bsky.social

The spring issue of the BAVS Newsletter will be published on 20th March. Please let us know if you have any work/projects/CfPs to include. You can email the newsletter editors at: bavsnews@gmail.com

Nineteenth-Century Afterlives: Creative and Critical Approaches An exploration of the many ways in which the 19th century is revisited, reimagined, and critically reinterpreted

Our fantastic doctoral student Sarah Dutson is organising the next of our North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminars, which is a hybrid event focusing on postgraduate and early career research on 19c afterlives. For more info, please click here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nineteenth...

BAVS Rosemary Mitchell Prize now open for submissions!

📢 BOOK GIVEAWAY ends next week: Share this post to win 1 free copy of *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP March 2026). global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Would you like to come and study for a PhD at the University of Surrey? We invite PhD proposals in literature, music and media, and applied theatre. Interdisciplinary proposals welcome as are those from other fields, including film, digital media, cultural studies, and creative writing.

The BAVS/Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a Second Monograph 2026 is now open! If you published your second scholarly monograph in Victorian studies between 17 February 2025 and 17 February 2026, please do consider submitting! You can find more information here: bavs.ac.uk/book-prize-2/

WLM 14 In this meeting, we would like to explore the interactions and connections between the different ways contemporary culture engages with the traces of the Victorian past as well as how these different ...

📣CFP Only One Week Left!📣

WLM14: Modes of Engagement – Adapting (Neo-)Victorians
🗓️ 7 May 2026 | Zoom | Hosted by QAQV &
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Exploring how today’s culture rewrites & remixes the Victorian past across media

🔍 Abstracts due 27 Feb 2026
Link: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/

So excited to be presenting @bavs-uk.bsky.social July 2026 @liverpooluni.bsky.social TITLE: Gulliver Travels to (Gul)liverpool: novel adaptations in Victorian pantomime. Thank you Uni of Kent Special Collections today: discovering Harry Paulton's 1885-1886 pantomime version of Swifts iconic novel.

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Calling BAVS ECRs! Join @laurenicullen.bsky.social and I on Zoom today anytime between 5pm - 6pm (GMT) for the @bavs-uk.bsky.social Tea Time! DM us for the link 🫖 ☕️

Had such a great time at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social ECR Tea-Time today. Such a lovely and supportive space, to chat all things Victorian. Thanks to @dremilyvincent.bsky.social and @laurenicullen.bsky.social for hosting. Looking forward to next time! 🫖

New Humour and Masculinity at the Fin de Siècle This book explores the popular writing of the New Humourists and their vital engagement with late Victorian conceptions of manliness

Now it's actually out, here's another plug for my new book about #Victorian New Humour, where I prove that Jerome is better than Joyce.
Just now realising I should have called it FUN de siecle.
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A huge thank you to everyone who cane to @rrrjournal.bsky.social ‘s annual conference! We heard fantastic papers that kickstarted conversations about archival method, material culture and sexuality and gender studies.

A huge thank you to @bavs-uk.bsky.social for providing generous event funding!

As @drhorrocks.bsky.social @vicmanch.bsky.social noted, Victorianists have the opportunity of back-to-back conferences with #RSVP2026 held in Dublin, 23-25 July & #BAVS2026 held in Liverpool, 27-29 July

Too late to apply to RSVP, but submissions still open for BAVS!

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