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Do read our recent #review of Denae Dyck's "Biblical Wisdom and the Victorian Literary Imagination"! It's by Taten Shirley, & here's William #Blake's wonderful "When the morning stars sang together" on the cover, a brilliant choice victorianweb.org/religion/rev...
November 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Do read our recent #review of Denae Dyck's "Biblical Wisdom and the Victorian Literary Imagination"! It's by Taten Shirley, & here's William #Blake's wonderful "When the morning stars sang together" on the cover, a brilliant choice victorianweb.org/religion/rev...
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More close looking at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery's
Pre-Raphaelite works, this time thinking about Alexander Munro's Paolo and Francesca serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/paolo-and-...
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Pre-Raphaelite works, this time thinking about Alexander Munro's Paolo and Francesca serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/paolo-and-...
@preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social #preraphaelite #art #sculpture #dante #nineteenthcentury #birmingham
Paolo and Francesca by Alexander Munro
Preserving a moment in marble
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November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
More close looking at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery's
Pre-Raphaelite works, this time thinking about Alexander Munro's Paolo and Francesca serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/paolo-and-...
@preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social #preraphaelite #art #sculpture #dante #nineteenthcentury #birmingham
Pre-Raphaelite works, this time thinking about Alexander Munro's Paolo and Francesca serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/paolo-and-...
@preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social #preraphaelite #art #sculpture #dante #nineteenthcentury #birmingham
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Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
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November 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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Award: Sally Mitchell Prize (Submission Deadline: 12/1/25) navsa.wildapricot.org/News/13564135
NAVSA - Award: Sally Mitchell Prize (Submission Deadline: 12/1/25)
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November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Award: Sally Mitchell Prize (Submission Deadline: 12/1/25) navsa.wildapricot.org/News/13564135
Wonderful #Tiles in the chancel at St Oswald's, Ashbourne, part of the refitting by George Gilbert Scott. Such intricate patterns, & a fascinating study of them by Rita Wood! victorianweb.org/art/design/c...
November 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Wonderful #Tiles in the chancel at St Oswald's, Ashbourne, part of the refitting by George Gilbert Scott. Such intricate patterns, & a fascinating study of them by Rita Wood! victorianweb.org/art/design/c...
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The first council of Queen Victoria 1838, by Sir David Wilkie, Scottish artist born #OTD 1785; known for Scottish genre scenes loved by Sir Walter Scott, he was Principal Painter in Ordinary to William IV & Queen Victoria, and first to sketch her likeness as reigning monarch.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:59 AM
The first council of Queen Victoria 1838, by Sir David Wilkie, Scottish artist born #OTD 1785; known for Scottish genre scenes loved by Sir Walter Scott, he was Principal Painter in Ordinary to William IV & Queen Victoria, and first to sketch her likeness as reigning monarch.
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Died #OnThisDay in 1877, aged 42, Hon. Augustus Anson, awarded the Victoria Cross in 1857 while serving with the army in India. He was Liberal MP for Lichfield 1859-68, and Bewdley 1869-74, and spoke on military matters in the Commons.
November 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Died #OnThisDay in 1877, aged 42, Hon. Augustus Anson, awarded the Victoria Cross in 1857 while serving with the army in India. He was Liberal MP for Lichfield 1859-68, and Bewdley 1869-74, and spoke on military matters in the Commons.
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North East England: we need nominations for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2026! Tell us about your local threatened, dilapidated, neglected Victorian and Edwardian buildings built between 1837 & 1914. Email us the info we need, see here: bit.ly/4hybqrc
On our list this year, Gibon St Baths 🧵
On our list this year, Gibon St Baths 🧵
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
North East England: we need nominations for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2026! Tell us about your local threatened, dilapidated, neglected Victorian and Edwardian buildings built between 1837 & 1914. Email us the info we need, see here: bit.ly/4hybqrc
On our list this year, Gibon St Baths 🧵
On our list this year, Gibon St Baths 🧵
"Old Edinburgh at Night" by Arthur Melville, a watercolour of 1883 -- so atmospheric, people glimpsed among the tall buildings with just one street lamp and some lights in windows, yet still an air of life -- almost phantasmagoric victorianweb.org/painting/mel... #painting #Scotland
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
"Old Edinburgh at Night" by Arthur Melville, a watercolour of 1883 -- so atmospheric, people glimpsed among the tall buildings with just one street lamp and some lights in windows, yet still an air of life -- almost phantasmagoric victorianweb.org/painting/mel... #painting #Scotland
Good morning on a #Sunday, with a view of the Newcastle Pew at St George's Church, Esher, where a young Princess used to sit when visiting her uncle Leopold in Surrey victorianweb.org/art/architec... (it has a little fireplace, note the chimney pots!))
November 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Good morning on a #Sunday, with a view of the Newcastle Pew at St George's Church, Esher, where a young Princess used to sit when visiting her uncle Leopold in Surrey victorianweb.org/art/architec... (it has a little fireplace, note the chimney pots!))
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📖 Colby Book Prize nominations open today! We're accepting nominations from now until 31 Jan. 2026. The Colby Prize recognizes original book-length scholarship published in 2025 that most advances our understanding of the long #19thC British press. More info: buff.ly/LIi76WJ
The Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize – RSVP
The Colby Book Prize was endowed in 2006 in memory of Robert Colby by his wife, Vineta Colby, distinguished scholars and long-time members of RSVP. In 2011, following Vineta’s death, the Board of…
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November 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
📖 Colby Book Prize nominations open today! We're accepting nominations from now until 31 Jan. 2026. The Colby Prize recognizes original book-length scholarship published in 2025 that most advances our understanding of the long #19thC British press. More info: buff.ly/LIi76WJ
Unveiled #OnThisDay 1873, William Brodie's little statue of Greyfriars Bobby on this memorial drinking fountain in Edinburgh (this was the much-loved faithful pet that waited by his master's grave for the rest of his life) victorianweb.org/sculpture/br...
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Unveiled #OnThisDay 1873, William Brodie's little statue of Greyfriars Bobby on this memorial drinking fountain in Edinburgh (this was the much-loved faithful pet that waited by his master's grave for the rest of his life) victorianweb.org/sculpture/br...
A Punch cartoon by John Tenniel #OnThisDay 1880: "Old King Cooal and the Fog Demon" — and the battle against pollution continues! victorianweb.org/periodicals/...
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
A Punch cartoon by John Tenniel #OnThisDay 1880: "Old King Cooal and the Fog Demon" — and the battle against pollution continues! victorianweb.org/periodicals/...
"#November #Sunset on the Thames, Kew," by Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944). OK, it was painted in 1919, but never mind: he started off in the Victorian period! This was one of his favourite places... victorianweb.org/painting/pis...
#painting
#painting
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"#November #Sunset on the Thames, Kew," by Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944). OK, it was painted in 1919, but never mind: he started off in the Victorian period! This was one of his favourite places... victorianweb.org/painting/pis...
#painting
#painting
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We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
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As part of the 1st London General Hospital during WWI, our Top Ten Endangered Building in Lambeth - the Victorian Cormont Road Board School - was the first posting of writer and campaigner Vera Brittain when she served as a VAD.
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
As part of the 1st London General Hospital during WWI, our Top Ten Endangered Building in Lambeth - the Victorian Cormont Road Board School - was the first posting of writer and campaigner Vera Brittain when she served as a VAD.
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CFP: Women, Money, and Markets: Crisis and Resilience (1650-1950) (Abstract Deadline: 1/15/26) navsa.org/News/13562082
NAVSA - CFP: Women, Money, and Markets Crisis and Resilience (1650-1950) (Abstract Deadline: 1/15/26)
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November 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
CFP: Women, Money, and Markets: Crisis and Resilience (1650-1950) (Abstract Deadline: 1/15/26) navsa.org/News/13562082
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Fixed term lectureship (1 year, part time) in my department, ideally a Shakespeare specialist - please share with anyone who might be interested!
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#academicjobs #Shakespeare #EnglishLit
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#academicjobs #Shakespeare #EnglishLit
Job Opportunity at Birmingham City University: Lecturer in English Literature
English at Birmingham City University is placed 13th in the Times University Rankings 2026 League Table, and the University received Gold for Student Experience in the last Teaching Excellence Framework. In REF 2021 the Unit of Assessment...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Fixed term lectureship (1 year, part time) in my department, ideally a Shakespeare specialist - please share with anyone who might be interested!
jobs.bcu.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
#academicjobs #Shakespeare #EnglishLit
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#academicjobs #Shakespeare #EnglishLit
An ad on the back of an 1890's book, indicating the increasing reliance on bold visual imagery rather than info. to sell a product. It certainly catches the eye! victorianweb.org/art/design/a...
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
An ad on the back of an 1890's book, indicating the increasing reliance on bold visual imagery rather than info. to sell a product. It certainly catches the eye! victorianweb.org/art/design/a...
"Tree of Life" window with with pomegranates and apples, made by Morris & Co., in the east wall of St David's Chapel in St Cybi's, Holyhead, Anglesey (the chapel was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott) victorianweb.org/art/stainedg... #stainedglass
November 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
"Tree of Life" window with with pomegranates and apples, made by Morris & Co., in the east wall of St David's Chapel in St Cybi's, Holyhead, Anglesey (the chapel was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott) victorianweb.org/art/stainedg... #stainedglass
#OnThisDay (6 Nov.) 1869, Blackfriars Bridge was opened by Queen Victoria on the way to opening the Holborn Viaduct. The tiles on the wall of the pedestrian underpass on the South Bank show the royal procession victorianweb.org/technology/b...
November 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
#OnThisDay (6 Nov.) 1869, Blackfriars Bridge was opened by Queen Victoria on the way to opening the Holborn Viaduct. The tiles on the wall of the pedestrian underpass on the South Bank show the royal procession victorianweb.org/technology/b...
Tiling in the garden porch of William Morris's Red House, with his initial and motto ("Si Je Puis"). The house, designed by Philip Speakman Webb, & completed in 1860, is in Bexleyheath, Greater London. victorianweb.org/art/architec... #Tiles #Morris #positivevibes!
November 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Tiling in the garden porch of William Morris's Red House, with his initial and motto ("Si Je Puis"). The house, designed by Philip Speakman Webb, & completed in 1860, is in Bexleyheath, Greater London. victorianweb.org/art/architec... #Tiles #Morris #positivevibes!
Both spectacular for different reasons: this modern photo of Brunel's Saltash Bridge, and Heath Robinson's wonderfully humorous take on the process of building it! www.victorianweb.org/technology/b... #bridges #technology #cartoons
November 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Both spectacular for different reasons: this modern photo of Brunel's Saltash Bridge, and Heath Robinson's wonderfully humorous take on the process of building it! www.victorianweb.org/technology/b... #bridges #technology #cartoons
#Fireworks already! This is Honor Appleton's illustration for Andersen's "The little Mermaid," showing her enthralled by the fireworks set off on the Prince's boat: "It was just as if all the stars of heaven were falling down upon her" victorianweb.org/art/illustra...
November 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
#Fireworks already! This is Honor Appleton's illustration for Andersen's "The little Mermaid," showing her enthralled by the fireworks set off on the Prince's boat: "It was just as if all the stars of heaven were falling down upon her" victorianweb.org/art/illustra...
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Magic, incantations, and gothic motifs make Anandi Kar’s essay on affect in the medieval ambience of Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” the perfect read in the lead up to Halloween! Check it out here and in our bio: jvc.oup.com/2025/02/19/a...
#victorian #victorianculture #victorianliterature
#victorian #victorianculture #victorianliterature
October 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Magic, incantations, and gothic motifs make Anandi Kar’s essay on affect in the medieval ambience of Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” the perfect read in the lead up to Halloween! Check it out here and in our bio: jvc.oup.com/2025/02/19/a...
#victorian #victorianculture #victorianliterature
#victorian #victorianculture #victorianliterature