@oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social
This week, we have Eric Storm presenting his new book: Nationalism: a World History, with comments from Faisal Devji and Abigail Green, Weds 19th Nov, 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad - Join Us!
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
This week, we have Eric Storm presenting his new book: Nationalism: a World History, with comments from Faisal Devji and Abigail Green, Weds 19th Nov, 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad - Join Us!
After a great discussion on lace workers last week, join us this Wednesday 12 Nov to hear Melissa Percival (Uni of Exeter) on 'Toile de Jouy - French printed textiles in cultural memory', 11.10am Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
After a great discussion on lace workers last week, join us this Wednesday 12 Nov to hear Melissa Percival (Uni of Exeter) on 'Toile de Jouy - French printed textiles in cultural memory', 11.10am Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad
This week - join us to hear our own David Hopkin talk about Flemish lace, craft, gender and religion. 11.10am, Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad on Weds November 5th.
November 3, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This week - join us to hear our own David Hopkin talk about Flemish lace, craft, gender and religion. 11.10am, Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad on Weds November 5th.
Today!!
This Wednesday 29 Oct, join us 11.10 in the Kloppenburg room at Exeter Cohen Quad to hear Tricia Zakresi on ‘The Art of Fiction: Victorian women writers and the decorative arts’. All welcome, and join us for reasonably priced informal lunch afterwards
October 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Today!!
This Wednesday 29 Oct, join us 11.10 in the Kloppenburg room at Exeter Cohen Quad to hear Tricia Zakresi on ‘The Art of Fiction: Victorian women writers and the decorative arts’. All welcome, and join us for reasonably priced informal lunch afterwards
October 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This Wednesday 29 Oct, join us 11.10 in the Kloppenburg room at Exeter Cohen Quad to hear Tricia Zakresi on ‘The Art of Fiction: Victorian women writers and the decorative arts’. All welcome, and join us for reasonably priced informal lunch afterwards
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Great start to the term! Octavia Young talking about collaborative work & the weavers, dyers, and dye-makers who are obscured by the focus on Morris & Burne-Jones, opening questions around definitions of art/craft/vocation/amateur/professional /technical knowledge/book knowledge and design
This week - come to a new part of William Morris' old college to hear Octavia Young on "Art Workers: The Labourers and Artisans of Morris & Co" - our first seminar of the year on Wednesday 15/10, 11.10am, in the Ruskin Room at Exeter Cohen Quad on Walton St
![Seminar programme for the term:
Week 1, 15 Oct Octavia Young (University of Cambridge) [note Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad]
Art Workers: The Labourers and Artisans of Morris & Co
Week 3, 29 Oct Tricia Zakreski (University of Exeter)
The Art of Fiction: Victorian Women Writers and the Decorative Arts
Week 4, 5 Nov David Hopkin (Hertford)
Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion
Week 5, 12 Nov Melissa Percival (University of Exeter)
Toile de Jouy – French Printed Textiles in Cultural Memory
Week 6, 19 Nov Eric Storm (University of Leiden) [note Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad]
Discussants: Faisal Devji (Balliol) and Abigail Green (Brasenose).
Book Talk: Nationalism: A World History
Week 7, 26 Nov Matilda Eriksson (Lady Margaret Hall)
Peasant, Painter, Patron: Anders Zorn and the Collecting of Vernacular Craft as Personal and National Heritage
Week 8, 3 Dec Luisa Levi d’Ancona Modena (Oxford)
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October 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Great start to the term! Octavia Young talking about collaborative work & the weavers, dyers, and dye-makers who are obscured by the focus on Morris & Burne-Jones, opening questions around definitions of art/craft/vocation/amateur/professional /technical knowledge/book knowledge and design
This week - come to a new part of William Morris' old college to hear Octavia Young on "Art Workers: The Labourers and Artisans of Morris & Co" - our first seminar of the year on Wednesday 15/10, 11.10am, in the Ruskin Room at Exeter Cohen Quad on Walton St
October 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This week - come to a new part of William Morris' old college to hear Octavia Young on "Art Workers: The Labourers and Artisans of Morris & Co" - our first seminar of the year on Wednesday 15/10, 11.10am, in the Ruskin Room at Exeter Cohen Quad on Walton St
Lots of 19thC activity at the Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood this term!
We're delighted to share the programme for this term's History of Childhood seminar series. We can't wait to hear from all our fantastic speakers. Join us for our first session on Monday 20 October, at Magdalen College Oxford or online via Teams at 11am when we'll be thinking all about 'play'!
October 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Lots of 19thC activity at the Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood this term!
Hello! Looking forward to an exciting term of the Oxford Long 19thC Seminar, on the theme of Arts, Crafts & the People: the Social and the Aesthetic in the Long Nineteenth Century. We meet on Wednesdays 11.10-12.30 at Exeter Cohen Quad on Walton St, all welcome.
October 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Hello! Looking forward to an exciting term of the Oxford Long 19thC Seminar, on the theme of Arts, Crafts & the People: the Social and the Aesthetic in the Long Nineteenth Century. We meet on Wednesdays 11.10-12.30 at Exeter Cohen Quad on Walton St, all welcome.
Today, for our final seminar of the term we have Rashel Zemlinskaya talking about the Renaissance as an ideological construct in 19thC Russia - join us!
June 18, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Today, for our final seminar of the term we have Rashel Zemlinskaya talking about the Renaissance as an ideological construct in 19thC Russia - join us!
TODAY! Please join us
This week we'll hear from Rebecca Gould about "Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory", Weds 04/06 11.10am Ruskin Room, Exeter College, Oxford and online
June 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
TODAY! Please join us
This week we'll hear from Rebecca Gould about "Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory", Weds 04/06 11.10am Ruskin Room, Exeter College, Oxford and online
June 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
This week we'll hear from Rebecca Gould about "Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory", Weds 04/06 11.10am Ruskin Room, Exeter College, Oxford and online
After great discussion about global history prompted by @poldalmau.bsky.social, very much looking forward to this time next week, when we'll hear from Rebecca Gould about "Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory"
May 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
After great discussion about global history prompted by @poldalmau.bsky.social, very much looking forward to this time next week, when we'll hear from Rebecca Gould about "Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory"
Today! Join us
This Wednesday join us to hear @poldalmau.bsky.social
talking about 'Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives', 21/05/25 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad and online. #Iberianists #GlobalHistory #NineteenthCentury - join us for what promises to be a great session!
talking about 'Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives', 21/05/25 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad and online. #Iberianists #GlobalHistory #NineteenthCentury - join us for what promises to be a great session!
May 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Today! Join us
This Wednesday join us to hear @poldalmau.bsky.social
talking about 'Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives', 21/05/25 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad and online. #Iberianists #GlobalHistory #NineteenthCentury - join us for what promises to be a great session!
talking about 'Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives', 21/05/25 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad and online. #Iberianists #GlobalHistory #NineteenthCentury - join us for what promises to be a great session!
May 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
This Wednesday join us to hear @poldalmau.bsky.social
talking about 'Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives', 21/05/25 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad and online. #Iberianists #GlobalHistory #NineteenthCentury - join us for what promises to be a great session!
talking about 'Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives', 21/05/25 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad and online. #Iberianists #GlobalHistory #NineteenthCentury - join us for what promises to be a great session!
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Coming up next week: @poldalmau.bsky.social talking about 'Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives', 21/05/25 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad and online. #Iberianists #SkyStorians #GlobalHistory #NineteenthCentury - join us for what promises to be a great session!
May 16, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Coming up next week: @poldalmau.bsky.social talking about 'Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives', 21/05/25 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad and online. #Iberianists #SkyStorians #GlobalHistory #NineteenthCentury - join us for what promises to be a great session!
Coming up next week: @poldalmau.bsky.social talking about 'Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives', 21/05/25 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad and online. #Iberianists #SkyStorians #GlobalHistory #NineteenthCentury - join us for what promises to be a great session!
May 16, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Coming up next week: @poldalmau.bsky.social talking about 'Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives', 21/05/25 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad and online. #Iberianists #SkyStorians #GlobalHistory #NineteenthCentury - join us for what promises to be a great session!
Today!!
Coming up soon! @csloanox.bsky.social will be kicking off our series 'Writing Histories/Histories of Writing' with a talk on 'Written developments: literacy, child development & young writing lives in mid-19thC-England'. Weds 07/05, 11.10-12.30 in person at Exeter Cohen Quad, or online via Teams
May 7, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Today!!
Coming up soon! @csloanox.bsky.social will be kicking off our series 'Writing Histories/Histories of Writing' with a talk on 'Written developments: literacy, child development & young writing lives in mid-19thC-England'. Weds 07/05, 11.10-12.30 in person at Exeter Cohen Quad, or online via Teams
May 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Coming up soon! @csloanox.bsky.social will be kicking off our series 'Writing Histories/Histories of Writing' with a talk on 'Written developments: literacy, child development & young writing lives in mid-19thC-England'. Weds 07/05, 11.10-12.30 in person at Exeter Cohen Quad, or online via Teams
Join us in Oxford or online a week tomorrow to hear @csloanox.bsky.social on "Written developments: literacy, child development, and young writing lives in mid-nineteenth-century England" - the first talk in this term's series on Writing Histories / Histories of Writing.
April 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Join us in Oxford or online a week tomorrow to hear @csloanox.bsky.social on "Written developments: literacy, child development, and young writing lives in mid-nineteenth-century England" - the first talk in this term's series on Writing Histories / Histories of Writing.
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First post of Oxford Long 19thC Seminar bluesky acct to announce our exciting upcoming programme on Writing Histories / Histories of Writing; with papers by @csloanox.bsky.social, @poldalmau.bsky.social, @rrgould.bsky.social, & Rashel Zemlinskaya - join us on Wednesday mornings!
April 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
First post of Oxford Long 19thC Seminar bluesky acct to announce our exciting upcoming programme on Writing Histories / Histories of Writing; with papers by @csloanox.bsky.social, @poldalmau.bsky.social, @rrgould.bsky.social, & Rashel Zemlinskaya - join us on Wednesday mornings!
First post of Oxford Long 19thC Seminar bluesky acct to announce our exciting upcoming programme on Writing Histories / Histories of Writing; with papers by @csloanox.bsky.social, @poldalmau.bsky.social, @rrgould.bsky.social, & Rashel Zemlinskaya - join us on Wednesday mornings!
April 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
First post of Oxford Long 19thC Seminar bluesky acct to announce our exciting upcoming programme on Writing Histories / Histories of Writing; with papers by @csloanox.bsky.social, @poldalmau.bsky.social, @rrgould.bsky.social, & Rashel Zemlinskaya - join us on Wednesday mornings!