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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

Ornate plaster domed roof with chandelier and people in foreground seated at round dinner tables plus big screen saying BAVS 2025

Wonderful conference dinner for @bavs-uk.bsky.social in the glorious high Victorian Oxford Town Hall. The post-dinner quiz was so difficult I don't think I can claim to be a Victorianist any more 🤣

Had a great time @bavs-uk.bsky.social 2025 in #Oxford - as well many fascinating papers and new friends made, there was also a seance, a punch & Judy show, a fiendishly difficult quiz at the conference dinner and a private tour of the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social victorian galleries.

Here are a few of the #BirkbeckVictorianists on tour again, this time at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social 2025 Conference in Oxford. With @janetteleaf.bsky.social, @helenaesser.bsky.social and @nonfictioness.bsky.social.

It's the first time in a long time that I've been at a conference for the duration, which is testament to how brilliant the @bavs-uk.bsky.social 2025 anniversary event was! A lovely bonus to speak on two panels with the wonderful @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social and @jendeavour.bsky.social 🙌

Had a great time @bavs-uk.bsky.social last week. Not been for a long time and was really impressed by the quality of the papers and the great chats I had with so many. Thanks also to my PhD sister @jendeavour.bsky.social for getting this pic of me in action, probably laughing at one of my own jokes.

Thanks to all those who gave me positive feedback on my paper on Mary Cowden Clarke and Dickens’ 1848 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor @bavs-uk.bsky.social 2025 as part of the Gendered Entertainments panel. Made a very nerve-wracking experience a positive one!

Really looking forward to tomorrow's ECR Professionalisation Day, kicking off the amazing @bavs-uk.bsky.social conference! Careers advice, jigsaw puzzles, séances all in one day - what more could you want?

Great to speak about using print and digital archives in teaching, on the Victorian Pedagogies panel with @timgao.bsky.social and @harbottlestores.bsky.social at @bavs-uk.bsky.social PGR/ECR Professionalisation Afternoon

Also had sneaky peek at the Tales of Weird collection at Oxford's Blackwells!

The #BAVS2025 @bavs-uk.bsky.social conference kicked off with the ECR/PGR Professionalisation Day @engfac.bsky.social - an insightful pedagogy & careers panel, a fun Victorian Parlour Games session, productive peer review workshops & a fantastic séance magic show from @careenafenton.bsky.social 📚👻

New website on Trollope that may be of interest to Victorianists: www.discovertrollope.com

Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry, 1895–1922: A Line of Her Own While W. B. Yeats’s influential account of the ‘Tragic Generation’ claims that most fin-de-siècle poets died, or at least stopped writing, shortly after 1900, this book explodes this narrative by atte...

You can now get hold of my book Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry in paperback, for a mere £34.39 in the Routledge sale (isn't that about the price of a flat white in London these days?)

One week to go until the BAVS 2025 Annual Conference @engfac.bsky.social

If you're interested in hosting BAVS 26, 27, or 28 at your institution then we'd love to hear from you! bavs.ac.uk/host-the-bav...

1 week today the @bavs-uk.bsky.social ECR committee will be kicking off the BAVS Conference by hosting the ECR Professionalisation Day! We have talks from experts on #C19 pedagogy, careers, peer review workshops, immersive Victorian games & even a séance magic show from @careenafenton.bsky.social 🎉

The newsletter team are always looking for new reviewers and feature contributors too. For more details on how to get involved, please visit the BAVS Newsletter page.

The BAVS Newsletter Editors invite you to submit notices for inclusion in the upcoming newsletter. These may include CFPs, notices of Victorianist interest, new publications, and more. Please email bavsnews@gmail.com by 27th July 2025 with any notices for the August issue

Frankly astounded to be able to announce that my book, Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines, has won the 2025 BAVS-Rosemary Mitchell Prize! Congratulations to @pfyfe.bsky.social and @drmarylshannon.bsky.social for their commendations - I am honoured to be in such a fantastic field!

DACH Victorianists dach victorianists network

Organised as part of the DACH Victorianists Workshop Series - take a look at the network here: dachvictorianists.blogspot.com

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bavs.ac.uk/book-prize/

The honourable mentions went to:

Paul Fyfe - Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities (Stanford University Press, 2024).

Mary Shannon - Billy Waters is Dancing: Or, How a Black Sailor Found Fame in Regency Britain (Yale University Press, 2024).

Delighted to announce that the 2025 BAVS-Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a second monograph has been awarded to Maria Damkjær for Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines (Oxford University Press, 2024).

British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference

There's still time to register for the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference on 23-25 July at the University of Oxford.

See the full programme and register on our website: www.english.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025

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We are offering 8 conference fee bursaries and 8 conference dinner bursaries for postgraduates via a lottery system. To register your interest, please visit: forms.office.com/e/K0Z13vaFBA

Deadline: 5 pm (BST), Wednesday 18 June 2025.

British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference

Bookings for the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference are now open! For further information and to book, please visit: english.web.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025

Historical Research and Policy Making

#Skystorians! Join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social‬ team online on 19 June @12:30 to explore how historical researchers (across all periods) can make themselves more visible to UK policy makers. For details👉 www.history.ac.uk/events/historical-research-and-policy-making & 🧵

Join us for BAVS Talks 2025 celebrating the 25th anniversary of BAVS UK; Friday 27 June, 2-5:30pm at the University of Leicester. Featuring talks from Victorianists + Postgrad Poster Session & Networking Reception - Register now: » bavs.ac.uk/event/bavs-t...

Today is your last chance to register attendance for Nineteenth-Century Legacies! Join us for a FREE day of papers and discussion as we consider 19C realisms and the long-lasting implications of nineteenth century thinking:
19clegacies.wixsite.com/19centuryleg...

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We are accepting submissions for The BAVS-Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a Second Monograph 2025. The deadline for submissions is 16th May: bavs.ac.uk/book-prize/

Nineteenth-Century Legacies, Tuesday 3rd June 2025,
Royal Holloway, University of London (Egham): 19clegacies.wixsite.com/19centuryleg...