On left, burgundy background with text that says: Kylee-Anne Hingston, “Blindness and Irish National Identity in the Textual Afterlife of F. W. Burton’s A Blind Girl at a Holy Well,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 2, summer 2025. On right, The Blind Girl at the Holy Well, ca. 1869, print, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, https://lccn.loc.gov/2003674284.

In VPR 58.2, @kyleeanneh.bsky.social traces reproductions of F.W. Burton’s 1840 watercolor “A Blind Girl at A Holy Well” to consider how #periodicals deployed its sentimental depiction of blindness in mid-century debates about Irish culture and nationhood: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

On left, burgundy background with text that says: Amy Matthewson, “The Past in Present Knowledge: China in The Illustrated London News of 1842,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 2, summer 2025. On right, color illustration titled “Portrait of Van-Ta-Zhin, a Military Mandarine (or Nobleman) of China,” from William Alexander, The Costume of China (London: W. Bulmer for W. Miller, 1805), 19. Public Domain Mark. Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/mqtz7ays.

In VPR 58.2 @amymatthewson.bsky.social examines how ILN repurposed images of China in its 1842 coverage of the Opium War. Learn how violent textual accounts were juxtaposed with tranquil landscapes to create a cohesive narrative about British military power: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Muban Educational Trust The Muban Educational Trust was established in 1997 by Christer von der Burg and the late Verena Bolinder-Müller. It is a small charity based in south-west London and is dedicated to the preservation,...

There's a bunch of high-quality stuff about #Chinese #printmaking and #graphics on the Youtube channel of the Muban Educational Trust, quite the resource:
www.youtube.com/@mubaneducat...

Congratulations Professor! Thank you for all your kindness, guidance, and encouragement.

Speaking of the Illustrated London News, a paper whose pages I never tire of turning, here's an account of its (mainly 19th-c.) history I put together some years back for the publisher Gale, which has made the essay free to access. It was fun to write. www.gale.com/intl/essays/... #C19th

CFP: Special VPR Issue (Winter 2026) – RSVP Call for proposals for a special issue of VPR honoring the late Brian Maidment! Proposals due May 15, 2025 and will be published Winter 2026.

CFP: Essays in Honor of Brian Maidment (Proposals due May 15; Essays due Nov. 1). Guest editors Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge invite proposals for a special issue of VPR. For full details, visit rs4vp.org/cfp-vpr-spec... @rs4vp.bsky.social

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Researching any aspect of history of the midlands? Then this is for you 🫵
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British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference

General registration for BAVS2025 is now open. Come and join us in Oxford in July and help to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the formation of BAVS.

This week, my class and I had the immense pleasure of chatting with Dr. Tore Olsson about history, video games, and his new book. We also had an in-class discussion about the women's suffrage movement as depicted in the game and in primary sources. Not my primary area of expertise, but so much fun.

CFP Edited Collection: "Imagining Explorers: From National Narratives to Public History, Explorers and Exploration in the Public Realm" via H-HistGeog: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🗃️

Thanks for this, Vivien! Esther’s paper was indeed a fascinating exploration of ways of representing (and thinking about) temporalities in archival research

It's a big day!

This intro took a while to put together, a lot of ideas, and lots of thoughts on itinerance while 'wandering and working' in some ways myself... plus I realise definitions are difficult and scary!

I'd LOVE to hear your thoughts! DMs are open!

Oh Barlas is an interesting figure that I’m not too familiar with. Would love to read anything you recommend

This looks fantastic

My first monograph looked at representations of China in the popular British satirical magazine “Punch” in the Victorian era

Looking forward to connecting with you on this platform

Hello new and old Friends, I’m new to the Bluesky community and would like to (re)-introduce myself. I’m a (mostly) 19th century historian interested in China in the British imagination. I look at visual and material cultures to explore a wide range of themes: knowledge, race relations, empire

New to Bluesky: @Vischina -- Historical Photographs of China at the University of Bristol hpcbristol.net

Hi Tim! Please add me 🙂