RSVP Conference 2026 – RSVP
Dates July 23-25, 2026
Don't forget to submit an abstract for RSVP's Dublin conference on movements and migrations by tomorrow!
conference.rs4vp.org
20.11.2025 17:20 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Specially useful for early-career Victorianists. Register to get a Zoom link.
18.11.2025 13:01 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
University of Glasgow - Events and Training
Just been finalising readings etc for my segment of the upcoming Scottish Graduate School Arts and Humanities seminar on 'Thinking Generationally', with Julianne Werlin (Duke). tockify.com/sgsah/detail... Looking forward to seeing everyone who has signed up in St Andrews on the 24th.
13.11.2025 11:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just notching up my 50th correction to the FindmyPast census records. Still waiting for a really memorable mis-transcription, but I do like the thought of John Armsden of Bognor, 'Stationer and Fancy Seeds'; the actual entry, 'Goods', is so much more prosaic, no matter how 'fancy'.
11.11.2025 12:07 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
People are frequently, frustratingly, missing from the census, but how many got to appear twice in the same year? Translator Edward Percy Jacobsen did in 1911; as a single man living with his mother in Bloomsbury, and again as a husband/father in Tooting! All the details match. Were there others?
09.11.2025 17:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Here is an exciting new way to think about the century that produced Darwinism."
Janet Browne's review of Martin Hewitt's Darwinism's Generations: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@vicmanch.bsky.social
06.11.2025 15:47 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
28.10.2025 15:36 — 👍 70 🔁 76 💬 1 📌 5
Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions: 2025
Apply for funding to conduct research at participating cultural and heritage institutions.
National Museums Scotland is taking part in the AHRC early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions scheme www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
The deadline is 10 Dec, so there's still time to get in touch about an application. Let me know if it's #histSTM related 🗃️📜
21.10.2025 15:53 — 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
We've a whole week to come up with our own suggestions....
21.10.2025 19:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hope to see you there!
21.10.2025 12:43 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Strachey-Briggs 'dine across the divide'! Now there's an occasion it would be worth being turned into a fly for!
18.10.2025 14:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I'm not sure that in his late career I would have gone as far as recommending him as a PhD supervisor; but there's no doubting the boost you get from having one of the greats of the field treat your tentative doctoral work as substantial and worthy of serious discussion and encouragement.
18.10.2025 14:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All the best anecdotes packed into 5k words! But even allowing for them having to be there, a sadly snide feel. For all his faults, Asa deserves more of the celebration provided by this extract than is offered by the piece as a whole. Age of Improvement and Victorian Cities a monument in themselves.
18.10.2025 11:41 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 0
The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859–1909: Darwinism’s Generations
Abstract. Darwinism’s Generations uses the impact of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859) in the fifty years after its publication to demonstra
Exactly 12 months since Darwinism’s Generations: The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859–1909 academic.oup.com/book/58805 was published online. Not sure if I should be pleased with nearly 500 downloads in that time. But I hope if you haven't yet, and you have access, you will today!
18.10.2025 06:52 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Are you an established or senior researcher in the humanities and social sciences? Our British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships allow successful award-holders to concentrate on bringing a major piece of research to completion. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3VMeTZ9
16.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 29 🔁 31 💬 0 📌 1
An important essay for all of us interested in the Victorian archaeology of generations and generational thinking.
15.10.2025 19:23 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The official CFP is a few days off, but I can't wait that long to announce that #BAVS2026 will be held in Liverpool, 27-29 July. We hope that some of the @rs4vp.org crowd will be able to make the trip over from #RSVP2026 and join @bavs-uk.bsky.social for more Victorian stuff. Details to follow.
15.10.2025 10:51 — 👍 24 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.
Reposts welcomed.
14.10.2025 09:09 — 👍 90 🔁 111 💬 5 📌 6
Age of Invention: Joel Mokyr's Nobel
A triumph for history and the importance of ideas
It was cool to see that Mokyr got the Nobel in economics. @antonhowes.bsky.social has a nice write up here: www.ageofinvention.xyz/p/age-of-inv...
14.10.2025 07:47 — 👍 38 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 0
Yes, it's a bit of a puzzle, although as some sort of a progressive Anglican I don't think there was necessarily much distance between Lewis and Parker.
08.10.2025 13:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great to see the whole archive of the BJRL available open access! A real boon to historians. (But in promoting this special issue, I might have omitted the 'local historians' designation for Alan Kidd and Terry Wyke, which rather undersells their place as social historians of Manchester and beyond.)
08.10.2025 08:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Age does count - Metascience
Metascience -
'fresh and fascinating ...astonishingly detailed ...I have not read any other such study that ranges so widely in Britain, is so authoritative, and so clearly expressed ...an exciting new way to think about the century', Janet Browne on Darwinism's Generations. I'd say I'm pretty chuffed with that!
07.10.2025 10:03 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Age does count - Metascience
Metascience -
'fresh and fascinating ...astonishingly detailed ...I have not read any other such study that ranges so widely in Britain, is so authoritative, and so clearly expressed ...an exciting new way to think about the century', Janet Browne on Darwinism's Generations. I'd say I'm pretty chuffed with that!
07.10.2025 10:03 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Sometime English professor, JHU and UMN; past president, Dictionary Society of North America. Victorian literature and art, book illustration, speech acts, interpretation, law.
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Research Associate in English Literature @unipotsdam.bsky.social
Principal Investigator DFG Project 'Decorative Materialities'
• the fin de siècle • literature and material culture • textiles • decorative arts • environmental humanities
A podcast for all with a common interest in history. Run and hosted by Mark Martin, the pod is his hobby. He’s an Arsenal fan and Wargamer.
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Writer, frustrated lawyer, unapologetic #feminist & wannabe academic - #interdisciplinary researcher of #victorianwomen & #shakespeare Kellogg College, Oxford she/her 🏳️🌈
Historian of China in the British Imagination, 19th and early 20th centuries, Visual and Material Cultures. Assistant Professor at University of Birmingham
A classic works reprint series by W. W. Norton & Company, Independent & Employee-Owned. Share what you're teaching & your dream NCEs! Read along with us here: https://seagull.wwnorton.com/nortoncriticaleditions
Victorianist, media history, literary & cultural theory, popular fictions. Prof at University of Greenwich UK.
Editor, proof reader, writer, researcher etc.
Recent books:
The Strange Stories of John Buchan (British Library Publishing, 2025)
The Stark Munro Letters by Arthur Conan Doyle (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
History is for everyone. Every way of doing history is worthwhile. Historians should be paid for their work. www.contingentmagazine.org
Assistant Prof in Literature and Drama
@durham_uni
/ Decadence and Orientalism
@OUPAcademic
/ Feminism and Drama 🎭
Views my own.
Professor of English Literature, Bishop Grosseteste University - women’s life & travel writing, Victorian literary networks and transnational subjectivity, Margaret Collier, Janet Ross and multigenerational matrilineal legacies.
Linking scholarship, teaching, and learning since 1994
Writer, speaker, teacher
@RoehamptonUni
19thC cultural historian (Regency & Victorian eras).
author: Billy Waters Is Dancing @yalebooks.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/marylshannon
Views my own.
Art Historian | Assistant Curator V&A Wedgwood Collection | AHRC part-time PhD student CDP Univ. of Leeds & V&A 'The Question of Good Design' (C20th Wedgwood)
Victorian literature & music history │
NEW coursebook: Reading Texts in Music and Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century (Boydell, 2025), co-edited with Katharine Ellis
Associate Prof 18th-Century History at The University of Leeds;Atlantic trade, merchants and infrastructure; economic history; cotton; co-editor of Northern History
Nineteenth century scholar. Eternal ballet student and weightlifter. Reader and writer. Sometimes.
The Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching in all aspects of nineteenth-century literature, culture and media.
Historian of the provincial press,looking at how 19C local papers and 20C county magazines express our sense of place. Despairing socialist. https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=20iBowIAAAAJ
Senior Lecturer in History at ARU | Researches poverty, welfare, consumption and material culture | Obsesses over fonts far too much
