Programme for the rest of the term: Weds 19 Nov - Eric Storm: Nationalism: a world history, discussants Faisal Devji & Abigail Green; 26 Nov - Matilda Eriksson, Anders Zorn and the collecting of vernacular craft; 3 Dec, Luisa Levi d'Ancona Modena - Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy

After a great discussion on lace workers last week, join us this Wednesday 12 Nov to hear Melissa Percival (Uni of Exeter) on 'Toile de Jouy - French printed textiles in cultural memory', 11.10am Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad

Programme for the term: coming up 12th Nov, Melissa Percival on French Printed Textiles, 26th Nov Eric Storm on Nationalism: a world history, 3rd Dec Luisa Levi d'Ancona Modena on Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy

This week - join us to hear our own David Hopkin talk about Flemish lace, craft, gender and religion. 11.10am, Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad on Weds November 5th.

Today!!

This Wednesday 29 Oct, join us 11.10 in the Kloppenburg room at Exeter Cohen Quad to hear Tricia Zakresi on ‘The Art of Fiction: Victorian women writers and the decorative arts’. All welcome, and join us for reasonably priced informal lunch afterwards

Great start to the term! Octavia Young talking about collaborative work & the weavers, dyers, and dye-makers who are obscured by the focus on Morris & Burne-Jones, opening questions around definitions of art/craft/vocation/amateur/professional /technical knowledge/book knowledge and design

Seminar programme for the term: Week 1, 15 Oct Octavia Young (University of Cambridge) [note Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad] Art Workers: The Labourers and Artisans of Morris & Co Week 3, 29 Oct Tricia Zakreski (University of Exeter) The Art of Fiction: Victorian Women Writers and the Decorative Arts Week 4, 5 Nov David Hopkin (Hertford) Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion Week 5, 12 Nov Melissa Percival (University of Exeter) Toile de Jouy – French Printed Textiles in Cultural Memory Week 6, 19 Nov Eric Storm (University of Leiden) [note Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad] Discussants: Faisal Devji (Balliol) and Abigail Green (Brasenose). Book Talk: Nationalism: A World History Week 7, 26 Nov Matilda Eriksson (Lady Margaret Hall) Peasant, Painter, Patron: Anders Zorn and the Collecting of Vernacular Craft as Personal and National Heritage Week 8, 3 Dec Luisa Levi d’Ancona Modena (Oxford) Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy

This week - come to a new part of William Morris' old college to hear Octavia Young on "Art Workers: The Labourers and Artisans of Morris & Co" - our first seminar of the year on Wednesday 15/10, 11.10am, in the Ruskin Room at Exeter Cohen Quad on Walton St

Lots of 19thC activity at the Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood this term!

At our first session next week, Weds 15th Oct, we will hear from Octavia Young (Cambridge) about Art Workers: the labourers and artisans of Morris & Co, and appropriately enough, we will be meeting in the Ruskin Room.

Image of the seminar programme for the term: Week 1, 15 Oct Octavia Young (University of Cambridge) Art Workers: The Labourers and Artisans of Morris & Co Week 3, 29 Oct Tricia Zakreski (University of Exeter) The Art of Fiction: Victorian Women Writers and the Decorative Arts Week 4, 5 Nov David Hopkin (Hertford) Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion Week 5, 12 Nov Melissa Percival (University of Exeter) Toile de Jouy – French Printed Textiles in Cultural Memory Week 6, 19 Nov Eric Storm (University of Leiden) Discussants: Faisal Devji (Balliol) and Abigail Green (Brasenose). Book Talk: Nationalism: A World History Week 7, 26 Nov Matilda Eriksson (Lady Margaret Hall) Peasant, Painter, Patron: Anders Zorn and the Collecting of Vernacular Craft as Personal and National Heritage Week 8, 3 Dec Luisa Levi d’Ancona Modena (Oxford) Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy

Hello! Looking forward to an exciting term of the Oxford Long 19thC Seminar, on the theme of Arts, Crafts & the People: the Social and the Aesthetic in the Long Nineteenth Century. We meet on Wednesdays 11.10-12.30 at Exeter Cohen Quad on Walton St, all welcome.

Today, for our final seminar of the term we have Rashel Zemlinskaya talking about the Renaissance as an ideological construct in 19thC Russia - join us!

TODAY! Please join us

This week we'll hear from Rebecca Gould about "Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory", Weds 04/06 11.10am Ruskin Room, Exeter College, Oxford and online

Wednesday 4th June, 11.10am in person at Exeter Cohen Quad, Ruskin Room and online (DM or email for link)

Image of programme for the term, email Christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk for text version

After great discussion about global history prompted by @poldalmau.bsky.social, very much looking forward to this time next week, when we'll hear from Rebecca Gould about "Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory"

Today! Join us

Image of full programme for the term. Contact Christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk for text version.

This Wednesday join us to hear @poldalmau.bsky.social
talking about 'Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives', 21/05/25 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad and online. #Iberianists #GlobalHistory #NineteenthCentury - join us for what promises to be a great session!

Coming up next week: @poldalmau.bsky.social talking about 'Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives', 21/05/25 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad and online. #Iberianists #SkyStorians #GlobalHistory #NineteenthCentury - join us for what promises to be a great session!

Coming up next week: @poldalmau.bsky.social talking about 'Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives', 21/05/25 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad and online. #Iberianists #SkyStorians #GlobalHistory #NineteenthCentury - join us for what promises to be a great session!

Today!!

Programme for a seminar series on 'Writing Lives/Histories of Writing': Week 2, Weds 7th May, 11.10 Catherine Sloan (Oxford) Written developments: literacy, child development, and young writing lives in mid-nineteenth-century England Week 4, Weds 21st May, 11.10 Pol Dalmau (Pompeu Fabra) Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives Week 6, Weds 4th June, 11.10 Rebecca Gould (SOAS) Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory Week 8, Weds 18th June, 11.10 Rashel Zemlinskaya (Oxford) The Renaissance as an ideological construct in nineteenth-century Russian historical fiction To find out more, join the email list at https://web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/info/long-19c-seminar or follow us on Bluesky @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social. For online access, Microsoft Teams links will be sent to the mailing list in advance or email christina.debellaigue@exeter.ox.ac.uk for a link.

Coming up soon! @csloanox.bsky.social will be kicking off our series 'Writing Histories/Histories of Writing' with a talk on 'Written developments: literacy, child development & young writing lives in mid-19thC-England'. Weds 07/05, 11.10-12.30 in person at Exeter Cohen Quad, or online via Teams

To find out more, join the email list at web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/info/long.... For online access, Microsoft Teams links will be sent to the mailing list in advance or email christina.debellaigue@exeter.ox.ac.uk for a link.

Join us in Oxford or online a week tomorrow to hear @csloanox.bsky.social on "Written developments: literacy, child development, and young writing lives in mid-nineteenth-century England" - the first talk in this term's series on Writing Histories / Histories of Writing.

First post of Oxford Long 19thC Seminar bluesky acct to announce our exciting upcoming programme on Writing Histories / Histories of Writing; with papers by @csloanox.bsky.social, @poldalmau.bsky.social, @rrgould.bsky.social, & Rashel Zemlinskaya - join us on Wednesday mornings!

First post of Oxford Long 19thC Seminar bluesky acct to announce our exciting upcoming programme on Writing Histories / Histories of Writing; with papers by @csloanox.bsky.social, @poldalmau.bsky.social, @rrgould.bsky.social, & Rashel Zemlinskaya - join us on Wednesday mornings!