stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness (bonus if you can tell me who these two are and who drawn by…)

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

The Victorian novel: where someone tries to shoot you, and your biggest problem is that you can’t possibly leave the house without your hat (Trollope, Phineas Redux, 1873)

Meanwhile the illustrations from the 2016 Bratislavan version of both ‘Alice’ books are enough to haunt your dreams #AliceInWonderland

My personal highlight from the newly-donated Jon A. Lindseth #LewisCarroll collection at Christ Church College Oxford, currently on display till April 17, is this beautiful edition of ‘The Hunting of the Snark’. Victorian weirdness shaped my childhood…

Thanks @ies-sas.bsky.social & Laura Cleaver for a great conf yesterday on Belle da Costa Greene and the European Book Trade! Loved hearing about the archives & objects that illuminate her career & networks, including these currently on display at the Morgan Library exhib about her librarianship

Enjoying the George Eliot stash at
@the-herbert.bsky.social in Coventry: Durade’s c. 1880 portrait of her, a statue of Florence Nightingale that she owned, and her writing desk; her sewing box; her writing cabinet. I’m especially interested by the Nightingale statue…

Ordered a second-hand copy of Trollope’s ‘Phineas Redux’ online - from a UK seller - and it’s arrived with this @harvardbookstore.bsky.social bookmark in it. It’s almost like they know I’m a transatlantic book historian specialising in Victorian novelists…