Helen Victoria Murray
@helenvmurray.bsky.social
Writer, Researcher, Heritage Professional
You can now read my ekphrastic poem 'I don't want to have sex because my body feels dead' in Vol. 6 of Sontag Mag.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
You can now read my ekphrastic poem 'I don't want to have sex because my body feels dead' in Vol. 6 of Sontag Mag.
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Reposted by Helen Victoria Murray
⚔️ Götz von Berlichingen lost his hand to a cannonball in 1504 and commissioned an iron prosthesis with hinged, lockable fingers for use in battle.
He later adopted a more advanced model - one of the earliest functioning mechanical prosthetic hands - which he used across his military career.
He later adopted a more advanced model - one of the earliest functioning mechanical prosthetic hands - which he used across his military career.
December 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
⚔️ Götz von Berlichingen lost his hand to a cannonball in 1504 and commissioned an iron prosthesis with hinged, lockable fingers for use in battle.
He later adopted a more advanced model - one of the earliest functioning mechanical prosthetic hands - which he used across his military career.
He later adopted a more advanced model - one of the earliest functioning mechanical prosthetic hands - which he used across his military career.
Reposted by Helen Victoria Murray
🌎 What happens when a travel writer navigates the world through touch?
This month’s blog explores the journeys of James Holman, the self-described ‘Blind Traveller’, and how his haptic encounters challenged the visual conventions of travel writing.
www.thevictorianhand.uk/gallery/the-...
This month’s blog explores the journeys of James Holman, the self-described ‘Blind Traveller’, and how his haptic encounters challenged the visual conventions of travel writing.
www.thevictorianhand.uk/gallery/the-...
November 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🌎 What happens when a travel writer navigates the world through touch?
This month’s blog explores the journeys of James Holman, the self-described ‘Blind Traveller’, and how his haptic encounters challenged the visual conventions of travel writing.
www.thevictorianhand.uk/gallery/the-...
This month’s blog explores the journeys of James Holman, the self-described ‘Blind Traveller’, and how his haptic encounters challenged the visual conventions of travel writing.
www.thevictorianhand.uk/gallery/the-...
Without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe for today using an image from your gallery
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe for today using an image from your gallery
Wishing I could resurrect my golden twitter age on this platform. What I lost in time, I gained in pals.
December 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Wishing I could resurrect my golden twitter age on this platform. What I lost in time, I gained in pals.
We're so back
Three years, two PhD vivas and two international moves later, we’re coming back. We missed you! And what better way to triumph over podcast mortality than with an episode about Frankenstein? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
Historical Resurrection! Frankenstein (2025)
Podcast Episode · Historical Friction · 11/22/2025 · 1h 19m
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November 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
We're so back
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3 weeks to go until the deadline for abstracts for our conference The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity (8-9 Jan 2026).
Are you getting yours ready?✍
Send abstracts and bios to victorianhand@fashionarts.ac.uk by 22 September 2025. We can't wait to hear from you!
Are you getting yours ready?✍
Send abstracts and bios to victorianhand@fashionarts.ac.uk by 22 September 2025. We can't wait to hear from you!
September 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
3 weeks to go until the deadline for abstracts for our conference The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity (8-9 Jan 2026).
Are you getting yours ready?✍
Send abstracts and bios to victorianhand@fashionarts.ac.uk by 22 September 2025. We can't wait to hear from you!
Are you getting yours ready?✍
Send abstracts and bios to victorianhand@fashionarts.ac.uk by 22 September 2025. We can't wait to hear from you!
Reposted by Helen Victoria Murray
Check out the call for papers for The Victorian Hand project's conference, January 2026. We can't wait to hear from you!!
🙌Call for Papers🙌
We are excited to invite abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference on The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity, at @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social on 8-9 Jan 2026
Send abstracts of 300 words to victorianhand@fashion.arts.ac.uk by 22 Sep - please circulate among your networks!
We are excited to invite abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference on The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity, at @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social on 8-9 Jan 2026
Send abstracts of 300 words to victorianhand@fashion.arts.ac.uk by 22 Sep - please circulate among your networks!
August 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Check out the call for papers for The Victorian Hand project's conference, January 2026. We can't wait to hear from you!!
Reposted by Helen Victoria Murray
We are really very excited indeed by this event. If you share our interest in the cultural significance, symbolic meaning, and lived experience of the human hand either in the past or today (or both!) then please do think about putting in an abstract. And please sprad the word to your networks!
🙌Call for Papers🙌
We are excited to invite abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference on The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity, at @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social on 8-9 Jan 2026
Send abstracts of 300 words to victorianhand@fashion.arts.ac.uk by 22 Sep - please circulate among your networks!
We are excited to invite abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference on The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity, at @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social on 8-9 Jan 2026
Send abstracts of 300 words to victorianhand@fashion.arts.ac.uk by 22 Sep - please circulate among your networks!
August 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
We are really very excited indeed by this event. If you share our interest in the cultural significance, symbolic meaning, and lived experience of the human hand either in the past or today (or both!) then please do think about putting in an abstract. And please sprad the word to your networks!
This is a thrilling opportunity for interdisciplinary research exchange. I am so excited to be co-organising @victorianhand.bsky.social's conference.
Whether you're a historian, a maker, an activist, a healer - we want to hear from you!
Whether you're a historian, a maker, an activist, a healer - we want to hear from you!
🙌Call for Papers🙌
We are excited to invite abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference on The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity, at @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social on 8-9 Jan 2026
Send abstracts of 300 words to victorianhand@fashion.arts.ac.uk by 22 Sep - please circulate among your networks!
We are excited to invite abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference on The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity, at @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social on 8-9 Jan 2026
Send abstracts of 300 words to victorianhand@fashion.arts.ac.uk by 22 Sep - please circulate among your networks!
August 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This is a thrilling opportunity for interdisciplinary research exchange. I am so excited to be co-organising @victorianhand.bsky.social's conference.
Whether you're a historian, a maker, an activist, a healer - we want to hear from you!
Whether you're a historian, a maker, an activist, a healer - we want to hear from you!
Week 1 of working on @victorianhand.bsky.social and having a wonderful time! This is a dream of a project. So excited to share further updates soon!
We're delighted to announce that @helenvmurray.bsky.social will be joining the project as Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History from March. Helen has expertise in the cultural and visual representation of the body in Victorian Britian and we can't wait to work with her.
March 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Week 1 of working on @victorianhand.bsky.social and having a wonderful time! This is a dream of a project. So excited to share further updates soon!