Andrew King
@andrewkingc19.bsky.social
Victorianist, media history, literary & cultural theory, popular fictions. Prof at University of Greenwich UK.
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Incredible but true - I have just had a tour of #Ouida’s house in Florence by a wonderful nun, sorella Rosa.
I am very moved, of course, but learnt more.
A bit of a change from where she was born in Bury St Edmunds.
I am very moved, of course, but learnt more.
A bit of a change from where she was born in Bury St Edmunds.
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The archives of Amy Levy, the almost-forgotten queer Victorian writer who Oscar Wilde called a genius, have been unsealed by Cambridge University Library.
https://www.booksns.com/173001/
The archives of Amy Levy, the almost-forgotten queer Victorian writer who Oscar Wilde called a genius, have …
https://www.booksns.com/173001/
The archives of Amy Levy, the almost-forgotten queer Victorian writer who Oscar Wilde called a genius, have …
The archives of Amy Levy, the almost-forgotten queer Victorian writer who Oscar Wilde called a genius, have been unsealed by Cambridge University Library. - Trending Books
The archives of Amy Levy, the almost-forgotten queer Victorian writer who Oscar Wilde called a genius, have been unsealed by Cambridge University Library.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The archives of Amy Levy, the almost-forgotten queer Victorian writer who Oscar Wilde called a genius, have been unsealed by Cambridge University Library.
https://www.booksns.com/173001/
The archives of Amy Levy, the almost-forgotten queer Victorian writer who Oscar Wilde called a genius, have …
https://www.booksns.com/173001/
The archives of Amy Levy, the almost-forgotten queer Victorian writer who Oscar Wilde called a genius, have …
Truly delighted to see the wise and wonderful @lindakhughes.bsky.social Hughes cited in today's Guardian 's article announcing the opening of Amy Levy's archive - an important event for everyone interested in #literary and #journalism #history, #LGBTQ+ history, #women's history.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Truly delighted to see the wise and wonderful @lindakhughes.bsky.social Hughes cited in today's Guardian 's article announcing the opening of Amy Levy's archive - an important event for everyone interested in #literary and #journalism #history, #LGBTQ+ history, #women's history.
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Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage.
Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...
Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...
Freedom and Sharing at the Internet Archive Europe
On Friday, in a narrow, cream-painted 17th-century row house facing a wide canal bathed in golden light, the Internet Archive Europe celebrated the opening of its new headquarters in Amsterdam. Around...
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September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage.
Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...
Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...
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Publishing today!
Ghosts and the Gothic, edited by @ruthheholt.bsky.social and @joparsons.bsky.social
The first book to examine ghostly presences (and absences) in #Gothic texts bit.ly/3I59Uzy
#Ghosts #GothicStudies
Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/
Ghosts and the Gothic, edited by @ruthheholt.bsky.social and @joparsons.bsky.social
The first book to examine ghostly presences (and absences) in #Gothic texts bit.ly/3I59Uzy
#Ghosts #GothicStudies
Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/
September 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Publishing today!
Ghosts and the Gothic, edited by @ruthheholt.bsky.social and @joparsons.bsky.social
The first book to examine ghostly presences (and absences) in #Gothic texts bit.ly/3I59Uzy
#Ghosts #GothicStudies
Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/
Ghosts and the Gothic, edited by @ruthheholt.bsky.social and @joparsons.bsky.social
The first book to examine ghostly presences (and absences) in #Gothic texts bit.ly/3I59Uzy
#Ghosts #GothicStudies
Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/
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I’m delighted to be part of this term’s London 19th Century Studies Seminar line up, and on a periodicals panel with @andrewkingc19.bsky.social no less! Join us at Senate House on Tues 14 Oct - all welcome!
September 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I’m delighted to be part of this term’s London 19th Century Studies Seminar line up, and on a periodicals panel with @andrewkingc19.bsky.social no less! Join us at Senate House on Tues 14 Oct - all welcome!
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This is a brilliant opportunity. Happy to answer any questions if anyone is interested in applying!
💼 We're hiring! RSVP seeks a new Editor or pair of Co-Editors to lead the Curran Index into its next phase. Many many thanks to our outgoing Editors, @emilyjlm.bsky.social+Lars Atkin for their dedication to this ongoing DH project. Applications due 15 October! rs4vp.org/curran-edito...
Lead the Curran Index as Our New Editor – RSVP
RSVP seeks a new Editor or Editors to lead the Curran Index! Applications should be sent to VP Alison Chapman by October 15.
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September 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
This is a brilliant opportunity. Happy to answer any questions if anyone is interested in applying!
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✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.
RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP
The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or…
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September 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.
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We have a wonderful line up of keynote speakers for RSVP-Dublin:
KATHERINE BODE (Australian National University) will deliver the Wolff keynote and ANDREW LEWIS and TEJA VARMA PUSAPATI will be in conversation for the Colby keynote!
And you too can be there - submit a proposal by Nov 1.
KATHERINE BODE (Australian National University) will deliver the Wolff keynote and ANDREW LEWIS and TEJA VARMA PUSAPATI will be in conversation for the Colby keynote!
And you too can be there - submit a proposal by Nov 1.
✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.
RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP
The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or…
buff.ly
September 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We have a wonderful line up of keynote speakers for RSVP-Dublin:
KATHERINE BODE (Australian National University) will deliver the Wolff keynote and ANDREW LEWIS and TEJA VARMA PUSAPATI will be in conversation for the Colby keynote!
And you too can be there - submit a proposal by Nov 1.
KATHERINE BODE (Australian National University) will deliver the Wolff keynote and ANDREW LEWIS and TEJA VARMA PUSAPATI will be in conversation for the Colby keynote!
And you too can be there - submit a proposal by Nov 1.
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What a fabulous resource! Wedgwood's intellectual work occupied such a fascinating space within #C19 debates about religion, science, and women's work. What a treasure, to have #OpenAccess to her writings. {I also highly recommend Sue Brown's biography, which is cited in Stone's bibliography.}
Julia Wedgwood (1833-1913) was an intellectual icon of the Victorian era ✍️
Alison Stone has created a fantastic #openaccess resource containing many of her diverse writings, inc lots of newly attributed journalism, plus a short biography and comprehensive bibliography.
www.juliawedgwood.org
Alison Stone has created a fantastic #openaccess resource containing many of her diverse writings, inc lots of newly attributed journalism, plus a short biography and comprehensive bibliography.
www.juliawedgwood.org
September 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
What a fabulous resource! Wedgwood's intellectual work occupied such a fascinating space within #C19 debates about religion, science, and women's work. What a treasure, to have #OpenAccess to her writings. {I also highly recommend Sue Brown's biography, which is cited in Stone's bibliography.}
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RSVP generously supports Periodicals research through several grants competitions. Maybe one fits your project!
Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!
The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship – RSVP
The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to…
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September 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
RSVP generously supports Periodicals research through several grants competitions. Maybe one fits your project!
Incredible but true - I have just had a tour of #Ouida’s house in Florence by a wonderful nun, sorella Rosa.
I am very moved, of course, but learnt more.
A bit of a change from where she was born in Bury St Edmunds.
I am very moved, of course, but learnt more.
A bit of a change from where she was born in Bury St Edmunds.
September 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Incredible but true - I have just had a tour of #Ouida’s house in Florence by a wonderful nun, sorella Rosa.
I am very moved, of course, but learnt more.
A bit of a change from where she was born in Bury St Edmunds.
I am very moved, of course, but learnt more.
A bit of a change from where she was born in Bury St Edmunds.
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CFP: The Hemingway Letters Project: Emerging Research (Toronto, July 20-25, 2026). Please share with students/colleagues/friends who might be interested. Happy to answer questions about the panel in particular and the conference in general. Funding opportunities available.
August 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
CFP: The Hemingway Letters Project: Emerging Research (Toronto, July 20-25, 2026). Please share with students/colleagues/friends who might be interested. Happy to answer questions about the panel in particular and the conference in general. Funding opportunities available.
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Lecturer in Ancient History
Newcastle University - School of History, Classics and Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC475/l...
Newcastle University - School of History, Classics and Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC475/l...
Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University
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August 1, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Lecturer in Ancient History
Newcastle University - School of History, Classics and Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC475/l...
Newcastle University - School of History, Classics and Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC475/l...
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Teaching Fellowship in Twentieth-Century British History- University of Oxford - Faculty of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC497/t...
Teaching Fellowship in Twentieth-Century British History at University of Oxford
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August 1, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Teaching Fellowship in Twentieth-Century British History- University of Oxford - Faculty of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC497/t...
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PhD Studentship: (ECOMEDS: Economic and Cultural Connections Within Mediterranean Ecosystems, c.1250-1550)
King's College London - #History #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ935/p...
King's College London - #History #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ935/p...
PhD Studentship: (ECOMEDS: Economic and Cultural Connections Within Mediterranean Ecosystems, c.1250-1550) at King's College London
Apply for a PhD Studentship: (ECOMEDS: Economic and Cultural Connections Within Mediterranean Ecosystems, c.1250-1550). Discover a wide range of PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.
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July 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
PhD Studentship: (ECOMEDS: Economic and Cultural Connections Within Mediterranean Ecosystems, c.1250-1550)
King's College London - #History #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ935/p...
King's College London - #History #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ935/p...
After an amazing three days in Birmingham at the @vpfa.bsky.social annual conference, it's graduation of my last undergraduate cohort at the University of Greenwich - a truly talented year.
July 17, 2025 at 6:28 AM
After an amazing three days in Birmingham at the @vpfa.bsky.social annual conference, it's graduation of my last undergraduate cohort at the University of Greenwich - a truly talented year.
Hear hear!
It's the @vpfa's deeply rooted refusal of hierarchy in the interest of welcome and joy combined with serious intellectual ambition, isn't it?
It's proof renewed every year that fun and rigour make a great alloy!
It's the @vpfa's deeply rooted refusal of hierarchy in the interest of welcome and joy combined with serious intellectual ambition, isn't it?
It's proof renewed every year that fun and rigour make a great alloy!
Well, #VPFAExtremes has been wonderful - the height of my summer so far, as ever! I am deeply grateful to be part such a fantastic, extremely warm and collegiate association. Thoroughly enjoyed the last few days - diolch pawb!
July 17, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Hear hear!
It's the @vpfa's deeply rooted refusal of hierarchy in the interest of welcome and joy combined with serious intellectual ambition, isn't it?
It's proof renewed every year that fun and rigour make a great alloy!
It's the @vpfa's deeply rooted refusal of hierarchy in the interest of welcome and joy combined with serious intellectual ambition, isn't it?
It's proof renewed every year that fun and rigour make a great alloy!
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Well, #VPFAExtremes has been wonderful - the height of my summer so far, as ever! I am deeply grateful to be part such a fantastic, extremely warm and collegiate association. Thoroughly enjoyed the last few days - diolch pawb!
July 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Well, #VPFAExtremes has been wonderful - the height of my summer so far, as ever! I am deeply grateful to be part such a fantastic, extremely warm and collegiate association. Thoroughly enjoyed the last few days - diolch pawb!
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Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.
![Reading Scenario Experiments. This series of prompts is designed to get you thinking about how the setting for reading affects concentration, comprehension, and even the existential experience of reading. Every week, one of the following prompts will appear on the syllabus. I encourage you to try all of them that you are able. How does a different reading setting affect your mood? Your receptiveness to the prose? Your pleasure or difficulty reading? What are the particular impacts of changing your lighting or surroundings? What do you notice about yourself and about the work you are reading during this experiment?
1. read by candlelight (use a small lamp in dorms where no candles are allowed!)
2. read for one hour without checking any devices, answering texts, etc.
3. walk out into nature (climb a tree, sit on a rock, grab a spot in a hammock) and read
4. host a reading night with friends & food (sit in companionable silence, reading without chatting)
5. read aloud a chapter to someone else
6. climb into bed at night and read by flashlight under the covers for at least 30 minutes, as if you’ve already been told “lights out” as a kid
7. reread a chapter and see what new things you notice the second time through
8. change your ambient-noise level: add music if you normally read in the quiet; or read without music if you are normally a music-listener
9. read with a sketchpad at hand and sketch scenes, characters, or other elements from the story
10. practice focused listening: have someone read to you
11. make yourself a special, fancy snack on a real plate to nibble while eating: pay attention to the cooking or arranging or choosing of ingredients to make it especially appetizing first
12. make tea (even if you’re not usually a tea drinker), and read and sip
13. invent a new reading scenario for yourself, or repeat the one you liked the best from this term
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July 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.
Very excited but also sorry its the last day of @vpfa.bsky.social #VPFAExtremes! The panel I'm in is kicking off with Alison Dingle on Victorian depictions of the Holy Land, esp. Disraeli's Tancred and Tonna's Judah's Lion. Horribly topical.
July 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Very excited but also sorry its the last day of @vpfa.bsky.social #VPFAExtremes! The panel I'm in is kicking off with Alison Dingle on Victorian depictions of the Holy Land, esp. Disraeli's Tancred and Tonna's Judah's Lion. Horribly topical.
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We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 VPFA Second Book Prize:
Tara MacDonald, Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Prof. MacDonald will receive a £200 cash prize and be honoured at the Annual Conference AGM.
Tara MacDonald, Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Prof. MacDonald will receive a £200 cash prize and be honoured at the Annual Conference AGM.
July 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 VPFA Second Book Prize:
Tara MacDonald, Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Prof. MacDonald will receive a £200 cash prize and be honoured at the Annual Conference AGM.
Tara MacDonald, Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Prof. MacDonald will receive a £200 cash prize and be honoured at the Annual Conference AGM.
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Writing a keynote paper for @vpfa.bsky.social's annual conference about encounters with prehistoric animals in nineteenth-century fiction, and as I write Colossal Biosciences can't stop announcing that they're resurrecting extinct creatures. I prefer Jules Verne.
July 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Writing a keynote paper for @vpfa.bsky.social's annual conference about encounters with prehistoric animals in nineteenth-century fiction, and as I write Colossal Biosciences can't stop announcing that they're resurrecting extinct creatures. I prefer Jules Verne.
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THRILLED to share that my book has won the VPFA Second Book Prize! 🎉
We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 VPFA Second Book Prize:
Tara MacDonald, Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Prof. MacDonald will receive a £200 cash prize and be honoured at the Annual Conference AGM.
Tara MacDonald, Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Prof. MacDonald will receive a £200 cash prize and be honoured at the Annual Conference AGM.
July 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
THRILLED to share that my book has won the VPFA Second Book Prize! 🎉