Cathy Waters
@catherinefaver.bsky.social
Professor Emerita of Victorian Literature and Print Culture, Dickensian and long-distance walker.
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The Chartists, an enduring reminder that change is possible and vitally important, even when (at the time) you don't 'win'.
The first issue of the Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, appeared #OnThisDay 18 November 1837. Without it, Chartism would have been a far weaker thing.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
November 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The Chartists, an enduring reminder that change is possible and vitally important, even when (at the time) you don't 'win'.
Hear, hear!
Lewis Goodall: Trump's attack can rescue the BBC
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
🖊️ @lewisgoodall.com
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
🖊️ @lewisgoodall.com
Trump's attack can rescue the BBC
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
www.newstatesman.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Hear, hear!
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Good piece by @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social on the Prescott memo, which looks very dodgy:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The Prescott memo flunks the impartiality test | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Good piece by @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social on the Prescott memo, which looks very dodgy:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Written before the BBC resignations but this by @arusbridger.bsky.social is really worth reading. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump
It is the BBC’s entire governance structure–rather than individual stories–that should cause most concern
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Written before the BBC resignations but this by @arusbridger.bsky.social is really worth reading. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it has given in | Jane Martinson
The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no... A Carol Bollywood style! @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
‘If you’re unhappy with Reform, this is a soothing balm’: Gurinder Chadha on her reboot of A Christmas Carol
She has directed cross-cultural versions of Pride and Prejudice and It’s a Wonderful Life. Now, the film-maker is reworking Dickens’s A Christmas Carol – with an Asian Scrooge
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no... A Carol Bollywood style! @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
Jane Harrison discussing George du Maurier’s Mrs Lyon Hunter in Punch, notes her origin in Mrs Leo Hunter, famed versifier of the ‘Ode to an Expiring Frog’ in Pickwick @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Jane Harrison discussing George du Maurier’s Mrs Lyon Hunter in Punch, notes her origin in Mrs Leo Hunter, famed versifier of the ‘Ode to an Expiring Frog’ in Pickwick @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
Who was around the Punch table in the first two decades?
November 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Who was around the Punch table in the first two decades?
The wonderful @patrickleary.bsky.social begins his keynote at ‘Pictorial Punch’ at @britishlibrary.bsky.social . Great to be here with other @rs4vp.org friends!
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The wonderful @patrickleary.bsky.social begins his keynote at ‘Pictorial Punch’ at @britishlibrary.bsky.social . Great to be here with other @rs4vp.org friends!
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
Including a fascinating look at the manuscript and Dickens’s reading copy 👏
New on YouTube today: a wonderful new introduction and study guide to Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol', presented by Professor Malcolm Andrews. Watch, enjoy, like and subscribe!
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A Christmas Carol v3
YouTube video by DickensFellowship
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October 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Including a fascinating look at the manuscript and Dickens’s reading copy 👏
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Just a reminder to join the #RSVPDigiEv team this Friday, 17 Oct. to hear from our Curran Index editors about the "joys and challenges" of archival and attribution research. We'll meet at the usual time, usual place (Zoom). Registration is, as always, free and open to all!
Oct. Digital Event: "From Periodicals to Dailies" – RSVP
Our October DigiEvent features a talk by editors of the Curran Index on the joys and challenges of archival plenitude. Join us October 17!
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October 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Just a reminder to join the #RSVPDigiEv team this Friday, 17 Oct. to hear from our Curran Index editors about the "joys and challenges" of archival and attribution research. We'll meet at the usual time, usual place (Zoom). Registration is, as always, free and open to all!
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Looking forward to Dickens Day tomorrow, & to talking about Fred Barnard again! This time, I'll be giving a paper (with lots of images) on his Character Sketches from Dickens. A tiny teaser below of Barnard's sketch of Sydney Carton & its remediation in a children's edition by Russell Thorndyke.
October 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Looking forward to Dickens Day tomorrow, & to talking about Fred Barnard again! This time, I'll be giving a paper (with lots of images) on his Character Sketches from Dickens. A tiny teaser below of Barnard's sketch of Sydney Carton & its remediation in a children's edition by Russell Thorndyke.
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At tonight’s meeting of Central DF, at The Charterhouse, London, author Alan Humm will be talking about his novel The Sparkler, published in 2024. All welcome
September 30, 2025 at 7:08 AM
At tonight’s meeting of Central DF, at The Charterhouse, London, author Alan Humm will be talking about his novel The Sparkler, published in 2024. All welcome
I didn’t know Neo-Impressionists did bourgeois interior scenes commenting ironically on the C19 domestic ideal, but there are two superb examples by Paul Signac in the Radical Harmony exhibition now on at @thenationalgallery.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I didn’t know Neo-Impressionists did bourgeois interior scenes commenting ironically on the C19 domestic ideal, but there are two superb examples by Paul Signac in the Radical Harmony exhibition now on at @thenationalgallery.bsky.social
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September 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Great shout out for Nellie Bly @rs4vp.org
Crusading journalist Nellie Bly! 🥹🥲 This is better than Drunk History even
On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city.
This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.
This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.
September 17, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Great shout out for Nellie Bly @rs4vp.org
Another candidate for the original of Joe Gargery’s forge in Great Expectations - this one in the high street of High Halstow, just opposite Forge Lane @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Another candidate for the original of Joe Gargery’s forge in Great Expectations - this one in the high street of High Halstow, just opposite Forge Lane @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
Here’s another #Dickens landmark I didn’t know about @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social The British Lion in Folkestone has a Dickens Room where I was told he wrote ‘Little Dorrit’ while he was staying for the summer at Albion Villas.
September 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Here’s another #Dickens landmark I didn’t know about @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social The British Lion in Folkestone has a Dickens Room where I was told he wrote ‘Little Dorrit’ while he was staying for the summer at Albion Villas.
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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…
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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.
Incisive and insightful as ever 👏
From Brexit to Brexitism. New post starting the 10th year of my now retitled Brexit & Brexitism Blog, analysing the current politics of Brexit, this summer's confected crisis, and the new terrain of post-Brexit politics. Long read: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/from... 1/2
September 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Incisive and insightful as ever 👏
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Indeed: the populists do make people poorer, but then they blame anyone but themselves: immigrants, unions, foreign wars etc.
Poor people are disgruntled.
Ripe for exploitation by populists.
Rinse and repeat. (As we’re seeing now)
Poor people are disgruntled.
Ripe for exploitation by populists.
Rinse and repeat. (As we’re seeing now)
As we prepare for the next tidal wave of nonsense around Reform in the UK, two points should stand out as the core rebuttal
- economic issues the UK faces are the same as many other countries
- populist right policies have made those issues worse
- economic issues the UK faces are the same as many other countries
- populist right policies have made those issues worse
Honking endorsement for Farage, Johnson et la, without a moment’s reflection that 10 years of UKIPified Tory govt created the mess they’re railing about — booming benefits bills, bond market routs, immigration surges, trade slump and investment slumps. Bring back Boris and Nadine! That’ll fix it. 🙈
September 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Indeed: the populists do make people poorer, but then they blame anyone but themselves: immigrants, unions, foreign wars etc.
Poor people are disgruntled.
Ripe for exploitation by populists.
Rinse and repeat. (As we’re seeing now)
Poor people are disgruntled.
Ripe for exploitation by populists.
Rinse and repeat. (As we’re seeing now)
The ‘Showtime’ exhibition now on at the dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-ev... has playbills, annotated copies of the scripts of Dickens’s reading texts and interviews with adaptors and performers of Dickens and his works and more.
September 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The ‘Showtime’ exhibition now on at the dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-ev... has playbills, annotated copies of the scripts of Dickens’s reading texts and interviews with adaptors and performers of Dickens and his works and more.
It is a bumper issue and a fitting tribute to mark the centenary of the wonderful Charles Dickens Museum in Doughty Street.🎉
The magnificent Summer 2025 edition of The Dickensian is devoted to commemorating the 100th anniversary of London’s Charles Dickens Museum, and it should be with subscribers shortly 🎉
September 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM
It is a bumper issue and a fitting tribute to mark the centenary of the wonderful Charles Dickens Museum in Doughty Street.🎉