A 'March of Intellect' cartoon from the early nineteenth century, which has been used as the cover image of the latest issue of the open-access online journal 19.
Our new issue is now live!
'1823-2023: Literature, Invention, Radical Thinking at the London Mechanics' Institution'
19.bbk.ac.uk
@openlibhums.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social
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Thank you for sharing. I tried to buy a ticket for the online stream of Susan Cooper's talk and was wondering why I kept experiencing problems...
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‘It’s Like Our Country Exploded’: Canada’s Year of Fire
Endless evacuations, unimaginable smoke and heat, 45 million acres burned — is this the nation’s new normal?
By the end of September, more than half of the world’s countries could fit inside the land burned this year in Canada.
“I can’t think of any analogy for the extent to which the modern records were not only broken but destroyed here,” says climate scientist John Abatzoglou.
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Many thanks to the organizers and attendees of the 2023 VISAWUS conference! Great papers, rich and engaging Q&As, and friendly conversations at meals and in-between panels. This was my first in-person conference since 2020, and it was heartening to join such a welcoming group!
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Library appreciation synchronicity!
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pursuing their projects, pleasant chatter about locating books or upcoming library events, artwork along the walls and in the adjoining gallery, take-and-make art supplies, a puzzle exchange. The list goes on. Countless reminders of how much libraries contain, facilitate. (2/2)
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I'm on a writing deadline, and family is visiting, so I've been spending more time at my local library than usual. Some joyful observations from the past week: language learners practicing in the courtyard, kids running through the exit with books in hand, readers and writers at every table (1/)
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Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina State University
justintackett.org
An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire throughout the long nineteenth century.
19th century musical and literary criticism; intellectual history; biography; religious history; popular culture; gender. Professor of Musicology.
Swimmer; cat dad.
Research Fellow, English @unibirmingham.bsky.social @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social. Deputy Assoc Director (Research) @cncsi.bsky.social Durham Uni. @GothicaUob.bsky.social. ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social. ‘Summoned to the Séance’ @britishlibrary.bsky.social👻
Penn professor & faculty director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities. Author, CUT/COPY/PASTE (2021). Weird old books & technologies, thinking about data, craftwork, feminist media histories. Creative/critical. Libraries are dope. Still a punk.
assistant professor of 19thc lit at Louisiana State University, formerly at University of Hong Kong and University of East Anglia, UK.
Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.
Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne. I have a database of >25k Victorian novels: www.victorianresearch.org/atcl
Business & Cultural Historian, personal capacity blurbs. Co-Editor, The Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals, https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-british-colonial-periodicals.html
Senior Lecturer in 19thC literature at Royal Holloway, London.
I research how living memory becomes narrative history in novels, textbooks, oral history, panoramas, biography & via generations, including Digital Humanities
Victorianist. Parent of small ones. Enthusiast of plants, both indoor and out. Come on you Gunners. Putting one foot in front of the other at the end of the world.
Historian of science, collecting, plants + museums // Professor at Yale // PhD in History of Science from Princeton // Contr. Ed. at Public Domain Review
Teaching English/theater at Portland State University. Writing in The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist (Simon & Schuster, 2025). Zeugmas welcome.
https://www.danielpollackpelzner.com/
Print work; digital work. C19th newspapers, periodicals, and all the rest. Prof University Of Leeds: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/1012/professor-james-mussell
Scholar of the 19th c & other things. English prof at Vanderbilt U
Author of _Picture World_ (Oxford UP 2020) and also
_Writing on Fire_ (Broadview P 2024)
www.rachelteukolsky.net
Professor at NC State University. Wandering between worlds of C19th British lit, comparative media studies, critical data literacies. Book *Digital Victorians* https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/digital-victorians
poet, professor, ecofeminist
https://www.kathrynkirkpatrick.org/
Associate Professor of Literature at American University. Aesthete and queer humanist. Author of *Before Queer Theory* and co-editor of *Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1890s*. He/him/his 🏳️🌈🐻👨❤️👨
Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture, Birkbeck, University of London.
London and Cambridge
drvickymills.com
Cat Mom, Historian of Modern Britain. Study gender in English state funded primary education, crime, and poverty. Recently worked in US History, recovering the histories of enslaved and freed Black workers on a southern college campus. Views Mine. She/Her
Assistant Professor, Auburn University at Montgomery | 2016 Pre-Raphaelite Fellow | Victorian Literature | Poetics & Aesthetics | Collaborative Authorship |
