19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
@19birkbeck.bsky.social
Online open access journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary study in the long nineteenth century.
https://19.bbk.ac.uk/
https://19.bbk.ac.uk/
New issue alert!
‘Nineteenth-Century Visual Technologies in Contemporary Practices’, guest edited by Gülru Çakmak and Patricia Smyth is now freely available online at 19.bbk.ac.uk. @openlibhums.org
‘Nineteenth-Century Visual Technologies in Contemporary Practices’, guest edited by Gülru Çakmak and Patricia Smyth is now freely available online at 19.bbk.ac.uk. @openlibhums.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
New issue alert!
‘Nineteenth-Century Visual Technologies in Contemporary Practices’, guest edited by Gülru Çakmak and Patricia Smyth is now freely available online at 19.bbk.ac.uk. @openlibhums.org
‘Nineteenth-Century Visual Technologies in Contemporary Practices’, guest edited by Gülru Çakmak and Patricia Smyth is now freely available online at 19.bbk.ac.uk. @openlibhums.org
To close our latest issue, Professor Jacqueline Rose asks what nineteenth-century literary writing, and especially Mary Shelley’s relatively unknown novel 'Valperga', can teach us about the crisis facing the humanities today.
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...
February 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
To close our latest issue, Professor Jacqueline Rose asks what nineteenth-century literary writing, and especially Mary Shelley’s relatively unknown novel 'Valperga', can teach us about the crisis facing the humanities today.
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...
What did The Strand look like in 1823, through the eyes of William Blake at Fountain Court, or Mary Shelley at the church of St Clement's?
@afoggyplace.bsky.social walks us through the buskers, crowds, and pub meetings for radicals in her fascinating article: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...
@afoggyplace.bsky.social walks us through the buskers, crowds, and pub meetings for radicals in her fascinating article: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...
February 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
What did The Strand look like in 1823, through the eyes of William Blake at Fountain Court, or Mary Shelley at the church of St Clement's?
@afoggyplace.bsky.social walks us through the buskers, crowds, and pub meetings for radicals in her fascinating article: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...
@afoggyplace.bsky.social walks us through the buskers, crowds, and pub meetings for radicals in her fascinating article: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...
In our latest issue, Emi Del Bene examines a rousing poem on Polish independence by Stanisław Egbert Koźmian, an entry in Anna Birkbeck's album which offers insights into the networks of European political exiles and insurrectionists in 1820-30s London.
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January 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
In our latest issue, Emi Del Bene examines a rousing poem on Polish independence by Stanisław Egbert Koźmian, an entry in Anna Birkbeck's album which offers insights into the networks of European political exiles and insurrectionists in 1820-30s London.
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19.bbk.ac.uk
In our latest issue, Zoe Baron and Beatrice Mossman examine ‘M.S. Lines on Lady Caroline Lamb’, a poem by salon hostess and travel writer Elizabeth Spence which illuminates the provocative friendships, class dynamics, and fraught gender expectations of the early 19th century.
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January 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
In our latest issue, Zoe Baron and Beatrice Mossman examine ‘M.S. Lines on Lady Caroline Lamb’, a poem by salon hostess and travel writer Elizabeth Spence which illuminates the provocative friendships, class dynamics, and fraught gender expectations of the early 19th century.
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19.bbk.ac.uk
Continuing this issue's examination of contributions to Anna Birkbeck’s album, Professor Isobel Armstrong analyses the poetry of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, who advocated ‘the public circulation of affect and the necessity of dreaming as a social need’.
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk
January 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Continuing this issue's examination of contributions to Anna Birkbeck’s album, Professor Isobel Armstrong analyses the poetry of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, who advocated ‘the public circulation of affect and the necessity of dreaming as a social need’.
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk
In our latest issue, Dr. David McAllister unearths a little-known poem of geologist Gideon Mantell, featured in Anna Birkbeck's 1825 album, and offers a fascinating example of the imbrication of scientific and literary writing in the Romantic era.
Read this article and more at 19.bbk.ac.uk
Read this article and more at 19.bbk.ac.uk
January 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
In our latest issue, Dr. David McAllister unearths a little-known poem of geologist Gideon Mantell, featured in Anna Birkbeck's 1825 album, and offers a fascinating example of the imbrication of scientific and literary writing in the Romantic era.
Read this article and more at 19.bbk.ac.uk
Read this article and more at 19.bbk.ac.uk
How did developments in adult education from 1823 shape Birkbeck, and how has the college adapted to survive over time?
Read Laurel Brake's fantastic article, followed by Robyn Jakeman's timeline, at 19.bbk.ac.uk
Read Laurel Brake's fantastic article, followed by Robyn Jakeman's timeline, at 19.bbk.ac.uk
January 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
How did developments in adult education from 1823 shape Birkbeck, and how has the college adapted to survive over time?
Read Laurel Brake's fantastic article, followed by Robyn Jakeman's timeline, at 19.bbk.ac.uk
Read Laurel Brake's fantastic article, followed by Robyn Jakeman's timeline, at 19.bbk.ac.uk
Was the London Mechanics' Institute (now @BirkbeckUoL) a pioneer of the visual lecture? Read @Prof_JPlunkett on the university's fascinating attempts to illustrate knowledge: from diagrams & transparencies to magic lantern shows to live experiments. 19.bbk.ac.uk
January 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Was the London Mechanics' Institute (now @BirkbeckUoL) a pioneer of the visual lecture? Read @Prof_JPlunkett on the university's fascinating attempts to illustrate knowledge: from diagrams & transparencies to magic lantern shows to live experiments. 19.bbk.ac.uk
"I believe, then, that the characteristics of Gothic are the following, placed in the order of their
importance:
1. Savageness
2. Changefulness
3. Naturalism
4. Grotesqueness
5. Rigidity
6. Redundance
6. Big neon signs bearing the word 'Gothic' in a sort of spooky typeface."
John Ruskin
importance:
1. Savageness
2. Changefulness
3. Naturalism
4. Grotesqueness
5. Rigidity
6. Redundance
6. Big neon signs bearing the word 'Gothic' in a sort of spooky typeface."
John Ruskin
November 26, 2024 at 2:44 PM
"I believe, then, that the characteristics of Gothic are the following, placed in the order of their
importance:
1. Savageness
2. Changefulness
3. Naturalism
4. Grotesqueness
5. Rigidity
6. Redundance
6. Big neon signs bearing the word 'Gothic' in a sort of spooky typeface."
John Ruskin
importance:
1. Savageness
2. Changefulness
3. Naturalism
4. Grotesqueness
5. Rigidity
6. Redundance
6. Big neon signs bearing the word 'Gothic' in a sort of spooky typeface."
John Ruskin
The Westminster Review and the London Mechanics’ Institution were established within months of each other in 1823–24.
In our latest issue, Hilary Fraser unearths the early history of these two initiatives and the radical London milieu that produced them.
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk
In our latest issue, Hilary Fraser unearths the early history of these two initiatives and the radical London milieu that produced them.
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 5:56 PM
The Westminster Review and the London Mechanics’ Institution were established within months of each other in 1823–24.
In our latest issue, Hilary Fraser unearths the early history of these two initiatives and the radical London milieu that produced them.
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk
In our latest issue, Hilary Fraser unearths the early history of these two initiatives and the radical London milieu that produced them.
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk
Next up, Ian Newman examines the relationship between the Mechanics’ Magazine and the founding of the London Mechanics’ Institution through the prism of Francis Place, who was involved in each.
Read here: 19.bbk.ac.uk
Read here: 19.bbk.ac.uk
November 18, 2024 at 10:13 AM
Next up, Ian Newman examines the relationship between the Mechanics’ Magazine and the founding of the London Mechanics’ Institution through the prism of Francis Place, who was involved in each.
Read here: 19.bbk.ac.uk
Read here: 19.bbk.ac.uk
In our latest issue, Judith Thompson's '‘Operations and cooperations’: John Thelwall, George Birkbeck, and the Movement for Public Education in Britain' explores the collaborations between the radical Romantic polymath and Birkbeck's founder.
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk
November 18, 2024 at 10:07 AM
In our latest issue, Judith Thompson's '‘Operations and cooperations’: John Thelwall, George Birkbeck, and the Movement for Public Education in Britain' explores the collaborations between the radical Romantic polymath and Birkbeck's founder.
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk
Our new issue is now live!
'1823-2023: Literature, Invention, Radical Thinking at the London Mechanics' Institution'
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'1823-2023: Literature, Invention, Radical Thinking at the London Mechanics' Institution'
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@openlibhums.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social
November 13, 2024 at 8:47 AM
Our new issue is now live!
'1823-2023: Literature, Invention, Radical Thinking at the London Mechanics' Institution'
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@openlibhums.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social
'1823-2023: Literature, Invention, Radical Thinking at the London Mechanics' Institution'
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@openlibhums.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social
Kameron Sanzo’s “Around the Wire: Telegraphic Infrastructure and Gothic Energies in Late Victorian Britain”, explores the ‘South-East Asian Indigenous communities and lifeways that resisted the Western energy project around’ telegraph wire production.
January 4, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Kameron Sanzo’s “Around the Wire: Telegraphic Infrastructure and Gothic Energies in Late Victorian Britain”, explores the ‘South-East Asian Indigenous communities and lifeways that resisted the Western energy project around’ telegraph wire production.
Alicia Barnes’s “Railways, Disjointed Mobility, and National Decline: Navigating George Chesney’s ‘The Battle of Dorking’” considers depictions of railway infrastructure in ‘the first example of invasion-scare fiction’.
You can read it here: 19.bbk.ac.uk
You can read it here: 19.bbk.ac.uk
December 13, 2023 at 10:42 AM
Alicia Barnes’s “Railways, Disjointed Mobility, and National Decline: Navigating George Chesney’s ‘The Battle of Dorking’” considers depictions of railway infrastructure in ‘the first example of invasion-scare fiction’.
You can read it here: 19.bbk.ac.uk
You can read it here: 19.bbk.ac.uk
Karin Koehler’s article, “I was not know for sure what be the Queen, Evan; was you?’: Fictions of Development in Amy Dillwyn’s The Rebecca Rioter” considers Dillwyn’s depiction of Wales’s complex relation to infrastructural forces in Britain.
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk
December 4, 2023 at 8:01 AM
Karin Koehler’s article, “I was not know for sure what be the Queen, Evan; was you?’: Fictions of Development in Amy Dillwyn’s The Rebecca Rioter” considers Dillwyn’s depiction of Wales’s complex relation to infrastructural forces in Britain.
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk
Caroline Sumpter’s article ‘‘The great event of modern history’: The Victorian Press Visualizes its Infrastructure’ asks what was politically at stake when the press put its materiality and mobility on display.
Read now in the latest issue of 19:
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Read now in the latest issue of 19:
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November 29, 2023 at 9:13 AM
Caroline Sumpter’s article ‘‘The great event of modern history’: The Victorian Press Visualizes its Infrastructure’ asks what was politically at stake when the press put its materiality and mobility on display.
Read now in the latest issue of 19:
19.bbk.ac.uk
Read now in the latest issue of 19:
19.bbk.ac.uk
Caroline Sumpter’s article ‘‘The great event of modern history’: The Victorian Press Visualizes its Infrastructure’ asks what was politically at stake when the press put its materiality and mobility on display.
Read now in the latest issue of 19:
19.bbk.ac.uk
Read now in the latest issue of 19:
19.bbk.ac.uk
November 29, 2023 at 9:12 AM
Caroline Sumpter’s article ‘‘The great event of modern history’: The Victorian Press Visualizes its Infrastructure’ asks what was politically at stake when the press put its materiality and mobility on display.
Read now in the latest issue of 19:
19.bbk.ac.uk
Read now in the latest issue of 19:
19.bbk.ac.uk
In our latest issue,
@LiveseyRuth
considers Trollope’s Barsetshire Chronicles and infrastructural transition in her article ‘Restructuring with Anthony Trollope: Managing Change in Chronicle Provincial Fiction’. You can read the article here: 19.bbk.ac.uk
@LiveseyRuth
considers Trollope’s Barsetshire Chronicles and infrastructural transition in her article ‘Restructuring with Anthony Trollope: Managing Change in Chronicle Provincial Fiction’. You can read the article here: 19.bbk.ac.uk
November 20, 2023 at 8:26 AM
In our latest issue,
@LiveseyRuth
considers Trollope’s Barsetshire Chronicles and infrastructural transition in her article ‘Restructuring with Anthony Trollope: Managing Change in Chronicle Provincial Fiction’. You can read the article here: 19.bbk.ac.uk
@LiveseyRuth
considers Trollope’s Barsetshire Chronicles and infrastructural transition in her article ‘Restructuring with Anthony Trollope: Managing Change in Chronicle Provincial Fiction’. You can read the article here: 19.bbk.ac.uk
The first article in our latest issue is ‘Net-Work: Irish Sea Crossings with and beyond Infrastructure’. Claire Connolly & James L. Smith w/ Daniella Traynor discuss what the digital humanities can bring to the study of travel &sea crossings. Read here: 19.bbk.ac.uk
November 13, 2023 at 10:07 AM
The first article in our latest issue is ‘Net-Work: Irish Sea Crossings with and beyond Infrastructure’. Claire Connolly & James L. Smith w/ Daniella Traynor discuss what the digital humanities can bring to the study of travel &sea crossings. Read here: 19.bbk.ac.uk
We’re delighted to announce the publication of our next issue, ‘Nineteenth-Century Infrastructures’!
Guest edited by Joanna Hofer-Robinson and Nicola Kirkby, this issue brings varied C19th projects into dialogue with critical infrastructure studies.
Read it here:
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Guest edited by Joanna Hofer-Robinson and Nicola Kirkby, this issue brings varied C19th projects into dialogue with critical infrastructure studies.
Read it here:
19.bbk.ac.uk
November 8, 2023 at 1:58 PM
We’re delighted to announce the publication of our next issue, ‘Nineteenth-Century Infrastructures’!
Guest edited by Joanna Hofer-Robinson and Nicola Kirkby, this issue brings varied C19th projects into dialogue with critical infrastructure studies.
Read it here:
19.bbk.ac.uk
Guest edited by Joanna Hofer-Robinson and Nicola Kirkby, this issue brings varied C19th projects into dialogue with critical infrastructure studies.
Read it here:
19.bbk.ac.uk