Dr Lucy Whitehead
@drlucywhitehead.bsky.social
Leverhulme ECF on modern British manuscripts & the American archive @ RHUL | Dickens & life-writing | On BBC Radio 3 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jt6c
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Fascinating talk at DF Central this evening, with @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social, exploring the ways in which people have engaged with Dickens biographies over the years
Really enjoyed giving my second public lecture on my research into Dickens biographies yesterday, this time at the beautiful Charterhouse! Thank you @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social for the invitation and the warm welcome!
Loved being on this great panel at #NAVSA2025!
Excited to announce "Histories of Reception" with papers by Tom Williams, Tom Gunther, Lucy Whitehead, & Mark Knight at #NAVSA2025
November 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Loved being on this great panel at #NAVSA2025!
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Gathered in London tonight with John Drew and assorted Dickensians to do a private reading of a never-performed play of Great Expectations, commissioned by Dickens himself to thwart the would-be pirates who made full use of the lax copyright laws of the time. Geek heaven!
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Gathered in London tonight with John Drew and assorted Dickensians to do a private reading of a never-performed play of Great Expectations, commissioned by Dickens himself to thwart the would-be pirates who made full use of the lax copyright laws of the time. Geek heaven!
So interesting - I'd heard about this archive, held privately, and wondered which institution would acquire it. Congratulations @uniofcam.bsky.social!
This sounds incredibly exciting www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde
Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
So interesting - I'd heard about this archive, held privately, and wondered which institution would acquire it. Congratulations @uniofcam.bsky.social!
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Some of our Reading Rooms will be closed between 27 October and 9 November due to planned strike action at our St Pancras site, and there may be other short notice disruption.
To check what’s impacted, please visit our website: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
To check what’s impacted, please visit our website: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
Planned strike action in St Pancras
We have been notified of planned strike action taking place between Monday 27 October and Sunday 9 November 2025.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Some of our Reading Rooms will be closed between 27 October and 9 November due to planned strike action at our St Pancras site, and there may be other short notice disruption.
To check what’s impacted, please visit our website: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
To check what’s impacted, please visit our website: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness (bonus if you can tell me who these two are and who drawn by…)
October 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness (bonus if you can tell me who these two are and who drawn by…)
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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I'm really proud of this: the latest issue of #VictorianStudies has an article of mine in it!
It's on #ageing and #generations, & the insightful ways that Victorian novelist Margaret Oliphant approaches these issues, with takeaways for us now.
doi.org/10.2979/vic....
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It's on #ageing and #generations, & the insightful ways that Victorian novelist Margaret Oliphant approaches these issues, with takeaways for us now.
doi.org/10.2979/vic....
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October 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I'm really proud of this: the latest issue of #VictorianStudies has an article of mine in it!
It's on #ageing and #generations, & the insightful ways that Victorian novelist Margaret Oliphant approaches these issues, with takeaways for us now.
doi.org/10.2979/vic....
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It's on #ageing and #generations, & the insightful ways that Victorian novelist Margaret Oliphant approaches these issues, with takeaways for us now.
doi.org/10.2979/vic....
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Really enjoyed this - thank you @britishacademy.bsky.social #ECR Network for organising it! Loved hearing about everyone’s writing projects across a range of disciplines.
What a fabulous location for a writing workshop - really looking forward to today.
September 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Really enjoyed this - thank you @britishacademy.bsky.social #ECR Network for organising it! Loved hearing about everyone’s writing projects across a range of disciplines.
When you get really excited about an archival holding, and then realise that access is restricted until 2095
September 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
When you get really excited about an archival holding, and then realise that access is restricted until 2095
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I’m on TV tonight! Check out the first episode of Britain’s Railway Empire at 8pm on Channel 4.
It’s a new, two part series about the history of the railways, starting with the Victorian Era. It’s not just a story about tech and engineering, but covers the social and cultural impact too.
It’s a new, two part series about the history of the railways, starting with the Victorian Era. It’s not just a story about tech and engineering, but covers the social and cultural impact too.
September 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I’m on TV tonight! Check out the first episode of Britain’s Railway Empire at 8pm on Channel 4.
It’s a new, two part series about the history of the railways, starting with the Victorian Era. It’s not just a story about tech and engineering, but covers the social and cultural impact too.
It’s a new, two part series about the history of the railways, starting with the Victorian Era. It’s not just a story about tech and engineering, but covers the social and cultural impact too.
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As a bit of a toy collector myself this one has extra appeal. Thanks Julia.
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#museums #museumfromhome #toys #london
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#museums #museumfromhome #toys #london
Pollock's Toy Museum
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September 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
As a bit of a toy collector myself this one has extra appeal. Thanks Julia.
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#museums #museumfromhome #toys #london
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#museums #museumfromhome #toys #london
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Book news! I’m pleased to say that Railway Infrastructure and the Victoria Novel is now in circulation www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
September 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Book news! I’m pleased to say that Railway Infrastructure and the Victoria Novel is now in circulation www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
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I'll be running a workshop on 'thinking about impact' at the EC Festival in Derby on 18 Sept. Join us to explore how #EcologicalCitizenship is practised through creativity, community, and collaboration.
📣 Register now - attendance is free & incs lunch! ecologicalcitizens.co.uk/upcoming-eve...
📣 Register now - attendance is free & incs lunch! ecologicalcitizens.co.uk/upcoming-eve...
September 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I'll be running a workshop on 'thinking about impact' at the EC Festival in Derby on 18 Sept. Join us to explore how #EcologicalCitizenship is practised through creativity, community, and collaboration.
📣 Register now - attendance is free & incs lunch! ecologicalcitizens.co.uk/upcoming-eve...
📣 Register now - attendance is free & incs lunch! ecologicalcitizens.co.uk/upcoming-eve...
It makes me think of that Victorian exhib ‘Colour Revolution’ @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social a couple of years ago, that warned us off imagining the Victorian world in black and white just because of the photography. Point extravagantly made here!
fabulous! I've seen that style before somewhere, but not as well turned out
August 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It makes me think of that Victorian exhib ‘Colour Revolution’ @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social a couple of years ago, that warned us off imagining the Victorian world in black and white just because of the photography. Point extravagantly made here!
Really enjoying the colourful Victorian station at Great Malvern. @victorianlondon.bsky.social I thought of you!
August 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Really enjoying the colourful Victorian station at Great Malvern. @victorianlondon.bsky.social I thought of you!
Happy 25th birthday @bavs-uk.bsky.social! Thank you for the beautiful conference dinner and the fiendishly difficult quiz! Glorious Victorian architecture provided by Oxford Town Hall… it felt a bit like dining inside a wedding cake… #BAVS2025
July 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Happy 25th birthday @bavs-uk.bsky.social! Thank you for the beautiful conference dinner and the fiendishly difficult quiz! Glorious Victorian architecture provided by Oxford Town Hall… it felt a bit like dining inside a wedding cake… #BAVS2025
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There's a 50% discount on the audiobook of DICKENSLAND at the moment, if you're so minded, and can ignore the slightly odd cover www.audiobooks.co.uk/promotions/p...
50% OFF Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens's London
The intriguing history of Dickens's London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years
Tourists have sought out the landmarks, stree...
www.audiobooks.co.uk
July 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
There's a 50% discount on the audiobook of DICKENSLAND at the moment, if you're so minded, and can ignore the slightly odd cover www.audiobooks.co.uk/promotions/p...
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You can now read most of the introduction (co-written by me and @johannawinant.bsky.social) to CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, out in October from Princeton UP press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century
A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises
press.princeton.edu
June 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
You can now read most of the introduction (co-written by me and @johannawinant.bsky.social) to CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, out in October from Princeton UP press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Really enjoyed giving my second public lecture on my research into Dickens biographies yesterday, this time at the beautiful Charterhouse! Thank you @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social for the invitation and the warm welcome!
Fascinating talk at DF Central this evening, with @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social, exploring the ways in which people have engaged with Dickens biographies over the years
June 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Really enjoyed giving my second public lecture on my research into Dickens biographies yesterday, this time at the beautiful Charterhouse! Thank you @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social for the invitation and the warm welcome!
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When English literature had a different place in society @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
June 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
When English literature had a different place in society @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
Looking forward to this @rhul-cvs.bsky.social!
BARS/BAVS 19th Century Matters Fellow, @ireadoldbooks.bsky.social:
Today is your last chance to register for 19C Legacies! Join us for what is sure to be a brilliant day as we consider 19C realisms and the implications of 19C thinking.
Free registration!
19clegacies.wixsite.com/19centuryleg...
Today is your last chance to register for 19C Legacies! Join us for what is sure to be a brilliant day as we consider 19C realisms and the implications of 19C thinking.
Free registration!
19clegacies.wixsite.com/19centuryleg...
May 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Looking forward to this @rhul-cvs.bsky.social!
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Around 80% of international adults believe that British literature and academic research positively contribute towards the UK’s international reputation, according to a recent @publishersassoc.bsky.social survey 👇 #BookSky
Publishers Association research reveals impact of literature on UK's international reputation
www.thebookseller.com
May 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Reposting because why not
You do not need to be an academic to visit an archive.
You do not need a degree to visit an archive.
There is no terrifying Don at the door grilling potential visitors.
If it's your first time, a nice archivist will help you.
It's our shared history, our preserved records. Go explore it.
You do not need a degree to visit an archive.
There is no terrifying Don at the door grilling potential visitors.
If it's your first time, a nice archivist will help you.
It's our shared history, our preserved records. Go explore it.
May 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Reposting because why not
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Proofs are in! 'Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel' should find its way into circulation later this year with CUP 👀🚂
Too many folk to thank here but those acknowledgements are full!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
Too many folk to thank here but those acknowledgements are full!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel
www.cambridge.org
May 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Proofs are in! 'Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel' should find its way into circulation later this year with CUP 👀🚂
Too many folk to thank here but those acknowledgements are full!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
Too many folk to thank here but those acknowledgements are full!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
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👏 Congratulations to Dr Michael Collins from @kingsenglish.bsky.social for being elected as the new Chair of @officialbaas.bsky.social.
'I will be using my tenure to ensure we make American Studies in Britain as joyous an undertaking as it can be,' said Dr Collins 🎉
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'I will be using my tenure to ensure we make American Studies in Britain as joyous an undertaking as it can be,' said Dr Collins 🎉
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King's academic elected as Chair of British Association for American Studies
Dr Michael Collins, Reader in American Studies in the Department of English, has been elected as Chair of the British Association for American Studies (BAAS).
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April 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
👏 Congratulations to Dr Michael Collins from @kingsenglish.bsky.social for being elected as the new Chair of @officialbaas.bsky.social.
'I will be using my tenure to ensure we make American Studies in Britain as joyous an undertaking as it can be,' said Dr Collins 🎉
🔗 Read more 👇
'I will be using my tenure to ensure we make American Studies in Britain as joyous an undertaking as it can be,' said Dr Collins 🎉
🔗 Read more 👇