Some exciting news: I'm organising an online event on the topic of Dickens on Screen for @dickenssociety.bsky.social! More info on the Society's website 👇. Abstracts of 100-200 words & short bio due by May 11th. The event itself will be on June 6th in the afternoon (East-coast US time).
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
My new (and first) book, The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture is out in May with @edinburghup.bsky.social. You can now pre-order which is pretty cool. Even cooler is that you can get 30% off with this flyer/code. Recommend to your university library if you think it will be of interest. 🍷
Absolutely!
Fulham’s Pre-Raphaelite archive brought into public ownership
https://www.europesays.com/uk/883644/
An important archive belonging to one of the most important collectors of neglected Victorian art has been acquired…
At #horrorconscotland today and it's looking spooky. The gates are open, the lights have been dimmed and it's feeling eerie! 😱
With @bluefoxcomics.com @bluefoxtabletop.bsky.social @simonbirks.com
'All of us in this picture'
Artemis II Lunar flyby, just ahead of losing contact behind the moon!
Photograph of indira varma as Mrs Gardiner in green velvet hat, green dress abs purple gloves. Mr gardiner in green coat and red cravat with his hat on his lap. Both smiling and clapping
Illustration from A Christmas Carol showing the Fezziwigs dancing at their ball. Mrs Fezziwig in yellow gown. Mr Fezziwig exhibiting some fancy footwork
“The Other Bennet Sister” was delightful and now all I want is a shared-universe spin off where the young Gardiners hang out with the young Fezziwigs and maybe solve some crimes and have raucous parties. #c19th
Really exciting opportunity
Pre-order @drbeard79.bsky.social & @rjdashwood.bsky.social’s Reading the Romantic Ridiculous in paperback to make next year’s royalty statement less, well, ridiculous!
As Christians around the world remember the Last Supper today, we share with you this amazing illustration from a tiny book called The Illustrated Testament. This pocket-sized summary of the New Testament is from our collections, and is thought to date from the 19th Century.
Took a rare moment away from the desks, to recharge. With @simonbirks.com
Exodus: Reading for the Images in & out of Books -- How is the Exodus narrative questioned & challenged by pictures? #Turner, #Blake, an 1880s half-tone of an exhumed #mummy as a head vignette at the beginning of Exodus. Join us in-person in London or online on 26/3. Book here: shorturl.at/pxGAm
Something new and decidedly Gothic-y is on its way from Blue Fox in the coming months!
Find out more on our Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/posts/sneak-peek-at-153596757
Words by @SimonBirks.com & @mariellewrites.bsky.social
Art by Nina Poulston.
Papyromania: Women, Books, and Scraps in the Long Eighteenth century./ Deidre Shauna Lynch (etc.) / March 26, 4 p.m., UConn Humanities Institute. The central image, the trade card from c. 1750, is a trompe l'oil image of an untidy pile of comic portrait prints and printed maps, with Griffin's trade card--identifying the location of her shop-- positioned in the centre.
Look at the great poster the U of Connecticut made for me--incorporating the witty trade card of Elizabeth Griffin, mid #18thc London map & printseller.
Immodest of me--but I believe my talk (3/26, 4pm) will be live-streamed, so pls let me know, farflung Bsky pals, if you'd like more info'.
It's official 🎉🎈 Professor Michael Gamer's fantastic edition of Radcliffe's 'The Italian' is out now. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe is off to a roaring start! Be sure to request a copy for your library now - and use the code GAMER26 for 20% off
www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
Would love more info on the live stream please! This looks, and sounds, wonderful
Rosa Bonheur was born #OnThisDay in 1822, the fabulously defiant Victorian-era animal painter 🖌️
The artist might have put sneaky self portraits in her paintings ...just one of ten reasons to love her!
Read more 👉 artuk.org/discover/stories/ten-rea...
📷 Sudley House
INCSA's call for papers, "Medicine, Museums, and Science Communication in the Nineteenth Century," has a new deadline of 31 March 2026. Join us in #Copenhagen 🧬
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Anna Atkins, Spiraea aruncus (Tyrol), 1851–54. Cyanotype, 35.1 x 24.6 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
We'll be @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social in Harrogate, 14th - 15th November 2026! See you there?
Just finished; this was fantastic! Explored so many themes I'm fascinated by (and, of course, always love talking the Pre-Raphaelites!) so this was a joy to attend. Off to revisit Pater! Huge thanks to @preraphsrule.bsky.social for the talk and the #gardenmuseum for hosting online as well!
OK, I am here for Gothic Polly Pocket
Happy Monday! This is your friendly reminder that Leary Resource Development Grant applications are due this coming Sunday, March 15! Leary Grants offer up to $27,500 USD to support new tools, repositories, datasets, + other projects that deepen our engagement with the #19thC press.
A semi-regular reminder that @incsa.bsky.social's journal is open to receiving proposals for special issues. If you have an idea for a topic connected to 19thC studies in the broadest sense, do get in touch. Please share!
Details 👇
in-csa.com/themed-speci...
What did Beanie do before they met ITTO? Find out by backing our latest Kickstarter campaign for Beanie - a System Error One-Shot - www.kickstarter.com/projects/simonbirks/bean...
At one of my favourite Haunts (which has had a beautiful refurb since I last stopped in!) #ArmchairBooks #Edinburgh Such a treasure trove
Today on #IWD we honour Amy Levy, Jewish poet, novelist, essayist, and Cambridge Alumna.
🔎Levy's Archive at the UL: https://loom.ly/RHh3bbc
With thanks to @thefnl.bsky.social, Arts Council England, Rothschild Foundation, T. S. Eliot Foundation.
Just started @nationaltrust.org.uk Wightwick Manor exhibition about extended Rossetti family including newly acquired portrait of Christina. Wightwick's a beautiful house anyway and has permanent @demorganfoundation.bsky.social display www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin...
This #InternationalWomensDay we wanted to highlight Lily Maxwell, who was able to vote at a parliamentary by-election in 1867.
Dr Kathryn Rix explores how Maxwell was able to cast her vote over half a century before some women first gained the right to vote in 1918.
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