Dr Bob Nicholson

Lela Harris’s portrait of Miss Lambe, charcoal on found writing paper. Miss Lambe is seated, holding a book and looking up and out at us.

Artist Lela Harris standing next to her portrait of Miss Lambe.

It was such a joy this morning to see Lela Harris’s extraordinary portrait of Miss Lambe, Jane Austen’s only character explicitly of African heritage, from the last novel she worked on. She died at age 41 without being able to finish Miss Lambe’s story. 1/

Sign the Petition Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

does anyone know of any research on the history of the 'family newspaper' - by which I mean a 'newspaper' produced usually by children, about daily goings-on in the household? think Gad's Hill Gazette, Hyde Park Gate News, etc...

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

Of use to those working on 1852-1879, it includes a chronological index of open-access copies of the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, a widely read (affordable) secular early women’s monthly miscellany. jmsw.github.io/edm-index/

Now updated with a searchable spreadsheet of contents by category!

Speaking of the Illustrated London News, a paper whose pages I never tire of turning, here's an account of its (mainly 19th-c.) history I put together some years back for the publisher Gale, which has made the essay free to access. It was fun to write. www.gale.com/intl/essays/... #C19th

The job advert highlights 20thC political and/or military history as an area we’d like to cover, but we’re very open minded about how candidates address this brief. We’re also open to international applications!

IT'S ALIVE!!!!! I had the best time working with Annemarie to edit our fabulous contributions - huge thanks to our authors for sharing their research, and for being polite when I suggested revisions. Huge thanks also to VPR ed Kathy Malone for her patience and making the editorial process so smooth.

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Job alert! We're advertising for a full-time, permanent Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in 20thC American History at Edge Hill. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX206/l...

This is terrifying, and happening right now. My university is about to reduce the curriculum from 6 20-credit modules per year to 4 30-credit ones, one assessment per module. Explicitly designed to reduce subject richness in favour of skills (and save on teacher numbers). Students will hate it.

In fact, you can stream all three episodes on NOW right away!

I'm on the TV! 'Jack the Ripper: Written in Blood' is a new docudrama about the journalists who reported on the killings and helped to mythologise the figure of the Ripper. I'm one of the talking-head historians. Part one premiers tonight at 9pm on Sky History & NOW TV. #WritteninBlood

Cool! Thanks very much for sharing one of my podcasts. Hope it made for some useful discussion.

Vic is a woman with glasses and purple hair, smiling and holding her copy of the Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature.

Vic is holding her copy of the book upside down trying to read it.

Vic holds open the first page of her chapter, 'Working-Class Writing in Victorian Britain'

Got weekend plans? Cancel them to read my chapter, 'Working-Class Writing in Victorian Britain' in the absolutely stellar Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature!

Whoa! Excellent news — congratulations Matthew! Definitely a moment to celebrate.

Image of front cover of Mitchell’s Newspaper Press Directory for 1898, accompanied by text that says MATTHEW STEPHENS, The Long and Short of It: Rethinking the Longevity of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals, Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 57, Numbers 1-2, Summer/Spring 2024.

Matthew Stephens @c19thnewshound.bsky.social argues that short-lived newspapers, often overlooked as the expected casualties of a developing industry, were actually a significant proportion of the 19th century’s press. Read it in VPR 57.1-2: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.bsky.social

🚀📈 Making Victorian visual culture searchable: Introducing an open-access and AI-powered dataset of 72,000 illustrations from the Illustrated London News (1842-1890). (w. Bethany Warner, @pfyfe.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social)

openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

Map of London in 1901 showing percentage of people born overseas by street.

So pleased my article on geo-coding addresses of 121 million + people in British censuses 1851-1911 is now out with Historical Methods! #openaccess

- map any census info (ages, occupations, birthplaces etc) by address

- link census to other spatial datasets

Get the code and data 👇

This is both an incredibly niche thing but I think it should be more of a thing. Caffè Nero subscribes to the British Newspaper Archive so it’s all free on their wifi. There. I said it.

Disco was discovered in 18th century Wales by Erthwynn Dann-Fyre

Hi everyone, can you help one of my students with her MA dissertation? Amy is exploring the motivations, influences & ambitions of those who practice history (from professionals to amateurs, paid to hobbyist). Fill in her survey to add your experience (& please share): forms.office.com/e/mFNv6tAqxn

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

‼️NEW EPISODE ALERT!🚨

You’re Dead To Me tackles the Arts & Crafts Movement, featuring the wonderful Cariad Lloyd & needlework expert Dr Isabella Rosner. It’s a very fun, big vibes one!

Listen first on BBC Sounds!
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Just found out that as of today that History as a whole is being notified that we’re at risk of redundancy. This’ll be the second time I’ve had to reapply for my own job in under 5 years! Our sector is at breaking point.

Two black and white photographs. In each photograph is a man in a flat cap wearing a sandwich board standing on a cobbled streets with buildings in the background. Some of the text on the boards is too small to be clearly read. What can be read on the left board is ‘Dr Massie, 8 No. St. Andrew St. The Only Qualified Hygienic Specialists in Edinburgh Advice Free’. On the right: ‘Men! Men! Dr Temple, 7 West Register St. Edinburgh’.

Advertising quack medicines in early 20th century Edinburgh – you can get an idea of their wares by the signs saying ‘Men! Men!’, ‘Hygienic Appliances’ and ‘Private side door entrance’

The Curran Fellowships – RSVP The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...

For any scholar working on the 19th-c. press, a Curran Fellowship can be a big help. Everybody is eligible, and the application is blessedly straightforward. This year's deadline is next week: Wednesday, January 15. Recommendation letters due Jan 22. rs4vp.org/awards/curra... #19th-c

A true #Housegawp - I gasped out loud.

Newspaper-seller at Ludgate Circus in the 1880s, traffic clattering past her

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Just an incredible opportunity from 1935