BAVS Rosemary Mitchell Prize now open for submissions!

I’m running a session at the Association for Art History 2026 conference in Cambridge on the Victorian art-workman - in association with David Parr House. Call below - deadline 2nd November

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@forarthistory.org.uk @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

#BAVS2025 you were a blast! 5 x Birkbeck papers from @drvickymills.bsky.social @nonfictioness.bsky.social @helenaesser.bsky.social Julia Kuehn and me! Great to hang with @jeremynewton64.bsky.social too! Such fun and sociability with so many great #Victorian scholars! @19birkbeck.bsky.social

Here are a few of the #BirkbeckVictorianists on tour again, this time at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social 2025 Conference in Oxford. With @janetteleaf.bsky.social, @helenaesser.bsky.social and @nonfictioness.bsky.social.

Such an absolute treat to be at @BAVs today on a panel talking about @drvickymills.bsky.social & others short film about the David Parr House, as well as all things nineteenth-century, collaborative labour, processes of making, back pain pills, women as curators of archives & lots more…

One week to go until the BAVS 2025 Annual Conference @engfac.bsky.social

If you're interested in hosting BAVS 26, 27, or 28 at your institution then we'd love to hear from you! bavs.ac.uk/host-the-bav...

The Man Who Painted His House. A short film by Dr Vicky Mills and Lily Ford. YouTube video by Dr Vicky Mills

Beautiful short film about the amazing house of a late 19th-century 'art-workman', created by @drvickymills.bsky.social. Always a delight to learn about colleagues at Birkbeck doing cool things like this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbFg...

Birkbeck film brings hidden history of Victorian art-workman to light Thanks to funding from Birkbeck’s Research Innovation Fund, supported by alumni donations, the legacy of Victorian art-workman David Parr has been brought to life in The Man Who Painted His House, a s...

Delighted to announce my new short film made in partnership with Lily Ford, Richard Uttley and the David Parr House!
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social @birkbecklibrary.bsky.social @luisacale.bsky.social

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The start of the two-day workshop on ‘Paper Ecologies: Histories, Materialities, Experiments’ 👌

All Saints Church, Cambridge- a very special screening of The Man Who Painted His House with life performance of Richard Uttley’s original soundtrack performed by Richard and violist Kinga Woydalska @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @19thcenturyem.bsky.social

On BBC Radio Cambridgeshire today with @lilyford.bsky.social talking about our new short film ‘The Man Who Painted His House’ @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

Thanks to all who attended last week’s screening of ‘The Man Who Painted His House’, which played to a packed Birkbeck cinema. @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social

More on this project soon!

Ah yes! It was lovely to meet her.

That’s great! I hope she enjoyed it

Come and see my short film ‘The Man Who Painted His House’ made in collaboration with Lily Ford and the Derek Jarman Lab. 7th May 6 pm Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square. Book tickets here:
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Arts Week is coming: join us for an exciting range of events showcasing what we do, from essay films in collaboration with the Derek Jarman Lab in our Cinema to theatre scratch nights, exhibitions, workshops, debates, & much more
6-9 May, Gordon Sq, London: www.bbk.ac.uk/annual-event...

Preview screening of my short film ‘The Man Who Painted His House’ on the life and extraordinary work of Victorian art-workman David Parr. 7th May 6 pm Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square. @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social

Book your tickets here!

www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event....

The @bavs-uk.bsky.social Rosemary Mitchell prize for a second monograph in Victorian Studies is now open for submissions. Deadline 1 st May.

bavs.ac.uk/book-prize/#....

Coming soon- my essay film on Victorian art-workman David Parr. @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

Recording the music for my essay film ‘The Man Who Painted His House’ on the life and work of Victorian art-workman, David Parr

Advert for Katharina Boehm's Seminar at London Paris Romanticism at Senate House on 13 December, featuring an antiquarian plate detailing Roman Antiquities from Herculanum, illustrating from Auguste-Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy's Recherches sur les ruines d'Herculanum (1770)

Looking forward to welcoming Katharina Boehm to speak about #Antiquarian #Conjectures, #Romantic #Material Culture, & the Novel at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London, on 13 December. Please spread the news, @bars.bsky.social, @antiquaries.bsky.social, @bsecs.bsky.social

This will be great!

Celebrating Birkbeck English and a new edition of @19birkbeck.bsky.social on the anniversary of the college foundation day last night. A fantastic issue put together by @luisacale.bsky.social

“Orchid Jo”: Empire, Satire, and Political Self-Fashioning Narratives of nineteenth-century orchid collecting and their role in constructions of personal and national identity.

I’m giving a talk about Victorian depictions of orchid collecting including imperial adventure fiction and satires of Joseph Chamberlain. This Wednesday 27th November at Birmingham uni. Details here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/orchid-jo-...

Artist Lu Mason’s ‘Agitate’ currently on display in the drawing room of the David Parr House. One of two rag rugs exhibited in the house as part of the ‘Words to live by’ exhibition.

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Robert Seymour, The March of Intellect, ca. 1828, visual satire capturing new knowledge powered by mechanical education in the form of an automaton, wearing an architectural model of the University of London as a crown over a pile of books. This visual satire functions as the mast-head for the new special issue of 19 dedicated to two hundred years of literature at the London Mechanics Institution

Knowledge is Power - 1823-2023: Literature, Invention, Radical Thinking at the London Mechanics' Institution, new issue of @19birkbeck.bsky.social, celebrating two hundred years of #literature among the disciplines

Read us: 19.bbk.ac.uk