Dr Vic Clarke
@vjctorianist.bsky.social
By day: literary historian and editor for hire. By night: historian and enthusiast of Chartism, 19thC British writing and politics, sausage rolls, and women's, workers', queer and trans rights ✊ she/her, views own
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Happy Halloween! I found a 30 year old newspaper buried in our new house which showed how much things used to cost and experienced true horror at the world around me!
October 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy Halloween! I found a 30 year old newspaper buried in our new house which showed how much things used to cost and experienced true horror at the world around me!
Update: eyes full of fine art, bag full of canelés, and it turns out that in a galetterie you can get a two course dinner with wine for €20. Let's hope I can grab an eclair café in the airport for my petit déjeuner du vol. Vive la France!
October 26, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Update: eyes full of fine art, bag full of canelés, and it turns out that in a galetterie you can get a two course dinner with wine for €20. Let's hope I can grab an eclair café in the airport for my petit déjeuner du vol. Vive la France!
Had an amazing day supporting English studies agrégation students in Bordeaux today - what a delight to talk about British social movements and think about their importance's in pedagogical practice. If only we did more of this on the other side of the channel!
October 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Had an amazing day supporting English studies agrégation students in Bordeaux today - what a delight to talk about British social movements and think about their importance's in pedagogical practice. If only we did more of this on the other side of the channel!
A fab BHM lecture from @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social on the Chapeltown Bonfire night incident of 1975. Wyatt situates elder Black women's activism on behalf of the Black youths on trial as part of caregiving in the community. More non-London Black history!!!
October 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A fab BHM lecture from @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social on the Chapeltown Bonfire night incident of 1975. Wyatt situates elder Black women's activism on behalf of the Black youths on trial as part of caregiving in the community. More non-London Black history!!!
Week two of home ownership: for when a flagpole in the garden isn't enough
October 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Week two of home ownership: for when a flagpole in the garden isn't enough
Spent this morning's seminars talking to my first years about close reading and figurative language, and thought I'd do a bit about semiotics and theory. Ended up talking A LOT about traffic lights. Perhaps driving theory next term?
October 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Spent this morning's seminars talking to my first years about close reading and figurative language, and thought I'd do a bit about semiotics and theory. Ended up talking A LOT about traffic lights. Perhaps driving theory next term?
Some news: I'm back teaching at the School of English at Leeds this term, and we bought a house with these treasures in the attic!
Freelance clients new and old, don't fear - I'm still available for your research, writing, and copy-editing needs.
Freelance clients new and old, don't fear - I'm still available for your research, writing, and copy-editing needs.
October 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Some news: I'm back teaching at the School of English at Leeds this term, and we bought a house with these treasures in the attic!
Freelance clients new and old, don't fear - I'm still available for your research, writing, and copy-editing needs.
Freelance clients new and old, don't fear - I'm still available for your research, writing, and copy-editing needs.
I've spent the last few days in the Austrian alps with a bunch of my brilliant friends for a wedding, and even if I never work in academia again, studying gave me an amazing international community of friends. For that alone we should be protecting HE.
September 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I've spent the last few days in the Austrian alps with a bunch of my brilliant friends for a wedding, and even if I never work in academia again, studying gave me an amazing international community of friends. For that alone we should be protecting HE.
Big thanks to @sslh.bsky.social for a cracking #ChartismDay in Huddersfield! My brain and heart are full thanks to the rich papers, show and tell sessions, and Chartist biographies. The Charter and something more!
September 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Big thanks to @sslh.bsky.social for a cracking #ChartismDay in Huddersfield! My brain and heart are full thanks to the rich papers, show and tell sessions, and Chartist biographies. The Charter and something more!
Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy
September 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy
If you're in or near #Halifax, I wholeheartedly recommend seeing the Costume Drama exhibition at #bankfieldmuseum. My mum was SO excited to see the costumes from Bridgerton and Downton Abbey, I don't think she stopped grinning the whole time ❤️
August 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
If you're in or near #Halifax, I wholeheartedly recommend seeing the Costume Drama exhibition at #bankfieldmuseum. My mum was SO excited to see the costumes from Bridgerton and Downton Abbey, I don't think she stopped grinning the whole time ❤️
Turns out that Bradford, IL is very different to Bradford, West Yorkshire...
July 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Turns out that Bradford, IL is very different to Bradford, West Yorkshire...
Thank you to all the brilliant organisers, panellists, and friends who made #RSVP2025 such a nourishing, collegial, and stimulating few days. My heart, brain, and stomach are so full!
July 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Thank you to all the brilliant organisers, panellists, and friends who made #RSVP2025 such a nourishing, collegial, and stimulating few days. My heart, brain, and stomach are so full!
The advertising wrapper of Werner's Magazine features many products using the election teacher Delsarte's name - from Sloper's School of Oratory to corsets claiming to aid speech! Werner's in particular covered speech therapy and disorders. #RSVP2025 #VoicesVisions
July 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The advertising wrapper of Werner's Magazine features many products using the election teacher Delsarte's name - from Sloper's School of Oratory to corsets claiming to aid speech! Werner's in particular covered speech therapy and disorders. #RSVP2025 #VoicesVisions
Enjoying Prof Jason Camelot's Wolff lecture on voice, sound, and elocution in the 19thC American periodical press. Periodicals were serialised textbooks for oratory schools and election performances, as correspondence courses. But why is Chicago seemingly the hub for public speakers? #RSVP2025
July 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Enjoying Prof Jason Camelot's Wolff lecture on voice, sound, and elocution in the 19thC American periodical press. Periodicals were serialised textbooks for oratory schools and election performances, as correspondence courses. But why is Chicago seemingly the hub for public speakers? #RSVP2025
Fascinating work from Ge Tang on photography of Chinese gold labourers in the journal South Africa. The 'modernity' of photography is used as a PR strategy to mask the slave-like conditions of indentured labourers in the Transvaal. #RSVP2025 #VoicesVisions
July 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Fascinating work from Ge Tang on photography of Chinese gold labourers in the journal South Africa. The 'modernity' of photography is used as a PR strategy to mask the slave-like conditions of indentured labourers in the Transvaal. #RSVP2025 #VoicesVisions
A cracking start to #RSVP2025 #VoicesVisions with Klaudia Lee's plenary lecture on Hong King's periodical press. So many great but short lived titles, and I love the idea that being bilingual has become a barrier to the study of some titles, rather than an aid - evading categories in the archive.
July 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A cracking start to #RSVP2025 #VoicesVisions with Klaudia Lee's plenary lecture on Hong King's periodical press. So many great but short lived titles, and I love the idea that being bilingual has become a barrier to the study of some titles, rather than an aid - evading categories in the archive.
32 baby!! (Delicious friends and beers not pictured here.)
July 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
32 baby!! (Delicious friends and beers not pictured here.)
I passed my driving test yesterday! The L plates have come off and this is finally on:
June 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I passed my driving test yesterday! The L plates have come off and this is finally on:
I had the best evening celebrating my brilliant pal @tothhayley.bsky.social at the launch of her book, Reading Postcolonial Literature. In it, she explores reading contemporary reading communities, critically engaging with both 'professional' and 'amateur' readers. And it's open access!
June 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I had the best evening celebrating my brilliant pal @tothhayley.bsky.social at the launch of her book, Reading Postcolonial Literature. In it, she explores reading contemporary reading communities, critically engaging with both 'professional' and 'amateur' readers. And it's open access!
Getting accustomed to American culture ahead of @rs4vp.org in Chicago this July!
May 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Getting accustomed to American culture ahead of @rs4vp.org in Chicago this July!
'“I’ve been surprised [by] the number of former MPs who are still unemployed,” the anonymous ex-Tory MP said. [...]
They added: “The Conservative Party has a history of treating people very badly, and it continues to do so.”'
They added: “The Conservative Party has a history of treating people very badly, and it continues to do so.”'
May 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
'“I’ve been surprised [by] the number of former MPs who are still unemployed,” the anonymous ex-Tory MP said. [...]
They added: “The Conservative Party has a history of treating people very badly, and it continues to do so.”'
They added: “The Conservative Party has a history of treating people very badly, and it continues to do so.”'
So proud of brilliant scholar and lovely friend PROFESSOR Sascha Stollhen's inaugural lecture. I learned so much! @universityofleeds.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
So proud of brilliant scholar and lovely friend PROFESSOR Sascha Stollhen's inaugural lecture. I learned so much! @universityofleeds.bsky.social
When your meal deal snack is a bag of Thai Sweet Chilli flavour Sensations
April 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
When your meal deal snack is a bag of Thai Sweet Chilli flavour Sensations
Extremely proud of brilliant scholar (and wonderful friend!) Rachel Johnson's book, 'Film Festivals, Ideology, and Italian Art Cinema', launched last night @lahri.bsky.social!
March 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Extremely proud of brilliant scholar (and wonderful friend!) Rachel Johnson's book, 'Film Festivals, Ideology, and Italian Art Cinema', launched last night @lahri.bsky.social!