QMUL Centre for 19C & Legacies

Looking forward to hosting an online chat today with TV writer and producer Gwyneth Hughes about her 2018 Vanity Fair for my wonderful students on our Victorian Fictions module at QMUL @c19qmul.bsky.social

Tonight singing and talking about Victorian carols ‘in context’ with @c19qmul.bsky.social buddies in @qmul.ac.uk fabulous Octagon

Christina Rossetti was born #otd in 1830. Her poem 'In the Bleak Midwinter' was originally published by Scribners in January 1872 as 'A Christmas Carol'. Gustav Holst set it to music in 1906. It was my father's favourite! @wikivictorian.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social
@c19qmul.bsky.social

Sad that my damaged ankle precludes me presenting some magic lantern slides at QMUL tomorrow night, but here's a damaged but stunning slide to compensate. The aerialist is unidentified but is possibly Ella Zuila as another slide in the set shows her riding her velocipede on the wire.

Upcoming Events: - 'Meet the Magic Lantern': 19th November 2024. - Carols in Context, 9th December 2024, 6-8pm Back by popular demand, this year's Carols in Context event will be on Monday 9th December 2024, 6-8pm. Please save the date! Booking information will be published shortly and we look forward to seeing you there.

Hello new followers 👋
Do check out our new website. We hope you can join us at an event delving into the nineteenth century and its legacies very soon! www.qmul.ac.uk/arts/researc...

Hi again Victorianist peeps! It's lovely to follow so many folks doing such fascinating work. Also to see lots of old friends. I'm re-upping this because VIC has been so quiet lately, and yet it's a great place for longer-form C19 queries, answers, and discussions than can easily be posted here.

Screenshot from page linked in post, listing the activities that are part of the family-friendly day of the freethought history festival: Tom Paine’s Bones! A puppet building workshop Great and Good? A plaque-making workshop Sing for Eliza! A singing workshop Doers & Dreamers storytelling Humanist Bloomsbury walk: Download the Go Jauntly app and take a walk through Bloomsbury’s Humanist history with Humanist Heritage’s self-guided free walking tour.

Are you based in London? Would you like to enjoy a range of free family-friendly activities on Sunday 1 September? Come along to Conway Hall to get creative, have fun, and learn about the freethinking people and the big ideas that have shaped our society. www.conwayhall.org.uk/freethoughth...

BAVS Newsletter Editor and Assistant Editor BAVS are looking for a new Communications Team (BAVS Newsletter Editor and Assistant Editor) to join the Executive Committee. They will be responsible for compiling and distributing the triannual News...

Do you want to contribute to the BAVS community, keep abreast of recent Victorianist publications & develop editing experience? Consider joining the BAVS Newsletter team, dealine Mon 12 Aug - I'm happy to chat about the role if you're thinking of applying.
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‼️ Call for Applications: BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship 2024-2025 ‼️
The Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship will provide the successful applicant with affiliation at Royal Holloway, University of London, from Oct 2024 to Sept 2025.
CLOSES MONDAY 12 AUG
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5387

Hello to the recent influx of BlueSkyers! Please do follow us to hear about fantastic upcoming events running at Queen Mary University of London - we are an interdisciplinary community of experts on the long nineteenth century and foster collaborative connections within and beyond the university.

Photo of Nasser Mufti speaking while sitting on a chair in front of a screen with a quotation: ‘ It Is a new Society that we are working to realise, not a Cleaning up of our present tyrannical muddle.* How close Morris came to the bone! He looked right across history and, with remarkable Insight, saw into our particular predicament. There, on the streets of Nairobi is Morris's tyranny: here, in the ageing dockyards, the cluttered roads and rallway stations, the decaying centres of our cites, the closing nationalised collieries, is his muddle.’ Stuart Hall, New Left Review 1. 1. 3 (1960)

Our seminar with Nasser Mufti today generated a fantastic discussion around key ideas in his WIP ‘Looking West Again: Decolonization and the Invention of Britain’s Nineteenth Century’, and how these ideas crystallise through rereading C.L.R. James and V. S. Naipaul #QMPocoSeminar

Britain’s Nineteenth Century from the Standpoint of Decolonization C.LR. James's “Comity of Nations”: Britain’s Nineteenth Century from the Standpoint of Decolonization, a paper by Nasser Mufti (UIC)

Nasser Mufti will be sharing WIP with us on Wed 14 Feb: ‘C.L.R. James's "Comity of Nations": Britain’s Nineteenth Century from the Standpoint of Decolonization’. Delighted to be co-hosting this with the QMUL Postcolonial Seminar. Details and sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/britains-n...

On Direct Action Events marking the 130th anniversary of the Greenwich Outrage, to consider the ways that revolutionary pasts can inspire contemporary praxis

On Direct Action 💣 Events marking the 130th anniversary of the Greenwich Bomb Outrage, to consider the ways that revolutionary pasts can inspire contemporary praxis. Wed 14 & Thurs 15 February. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/on-direct-...

Britain’s Nineteenth Century from the Standpoint of Decolonization C.LR. James's “Comity of Nations”: Britain’s Nineteenth Century from the Standpoint of Decolonization, a paper by Nasser Mufti (UIC)

Nasser Mufti will be sharing WIP with us on Wed 14 Feb: ‘C.L.R. James's "Comity of Nations": Britain’s Nineteenth Century from the Standpoint of Decolonization’. Delighted to be co-hosting this with the QMUL Postcolonial Seminar. Details and sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/britains-n...

On Direct Action Events marking the 130th anniversary of the Greenwich Outrage, to consider the ways that revolutionary pasts can inspire contemporary praxis

On Direct Action 💣 Events marking the 130th anniversary of the Greenwich Bomb Outrage, to consider the ways that revolutionary pasts can inspire contemporary praxis. Wed 14 & Thurs 15 February. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/on-direct-...

we're so pleased you could join us!

This was a fabulous event! Beautiful singing and fascinating context for the carols. Made my Monday a bit less Monday

Photo of a five person choir singing in front of an audience in an ornate high ceilinged round room filled with books. To the left a screen projecting the poster for the event. To the right a grand piano and a Christmas tree decorated in red and gold

What a wonderful way to start the festive season 🎄 Thanks to everyone who joined us for Carols in Context, and especially our incredible choir!

Slide with two scanned pages: title page of 'The Secularist's Manual of Songs and Ceremonies' edited by Austin Holyoake and Charles Watts (1871); page with two songs 'Sympathy' and 'Benevolence', each has 4 quatrains. A line with a tick highlights: Go, bid the hungry orphan be With thine abundance bless'd; Invite the wand'rer to thy gate, And spread the couch of rest. Let him who pines with piercing cold By thee be warm'd and clad; Be thine the blissful task, to make The downcast mourner glad. WEG/G 43/HOL Gladstone’s Library (Hawarden)

Looking forward to introducing another Victorian secularist song as part of the this evening's @c19qmul.bsky.social Carols in Context event. Alongside more familiar pieces, we'll be singing 'Sympathy.' Two verses received Gladstone's own tick of approval in his copy held at @gladlib.bsky.social

This talk is a week today! All are welcome, please share widely. If you can't join us, you can still check out
covecollective.org and branchcollective.org - Dino's digital ventures.

This is a week today, and we can't wait 🎵🎄🍷
All are welcome, please share widely!

Poster for Victorian Christmas Carols in Context. Secular and sacred carols with singing, mulled wine, mince pies & good cheer (optional fancy dress... Mon 4th December, 6-8pm. Octagon, Queen's Building. Please register (free). Red poster with Victorian illustrations of a holly wreath and a girl carrying a small snow laden Christmas tree.

This December our Carols in Context event returns! Join us for a free concert in QMUL's beautiful Octagon room and learn about the 19th-century history of festive tunes - sign up here: www.tickettailor.com/events/qmul1...

“Assembling the Past: Digital Studies and Literary History.” Prof. Dino Felluga (Purdue). Wednesday 6 December, 16:30-18:00. Graduate Centre, QMUL. All welcome! Poster background is grey with an abstract pale blue diagonal wave

We’re delighted to be hosting a talk by Dino Felluga
on Wed 6 December at QMUL. It will be a fascinating talk about digital studies and literary history, asking how DH tools might prompt us to rethink our approach to temporality. Register for free here: www.tickettailor.com/events/qmul1...

Poster for Victorian Christmas Carols in Context. Secular and sacred carols with singing, mulled wine, mince pies & good cheer (optional fancy dress... Mon 4th December, 6-8pm. Octagon, Queen's Building. Please register (free). Red poster with Victorian illustrations of a holly wreath and a girl carrying a small snow laden Christmas tree.

This December our Carols in Context event returns! Join us for a free concert in QMUL's beautiful Octagon room and learn about the 19th-century history of festive tunes - sign up here: www.tickettailor.com/events/qmul1...

“Assembling the Past: Digital Studies and Literary History.” Prof. Dino Felluga (Purdue). Wednesday 6 December, 16:30-18:00. Graduate Centre, QMUL. All welcome! Poster background is grey with an abstract pale blue diagonal wave

We’re delighted to be hosting a talk by Dino Felluga
on Wed 6 December at QMUL. It will be a fascinating talk about digital studies and literary history, asking how DH tools might prompt us to rethink our approach to temporality. Register for free here: www.tickettailor.com/events/qmul1...

Photo of two men and woman sitting behind a table in a seminar room in conversation. A backing slide reads ‘Islamic Communities in Victorian Britain’ and show covers of books about Abdullah Quilliam and Fatima Cates

Thanks to Yahya Birt and Hamid Mahmood for joining us this afternoon at QMUL - fantastic to hear about Abdullah Quilliam, Fatima Cates and Islamic communities in late-Victorian Britain. Highly recommend checking out their books to learn more 📚

Hello! We've got lots of exciting nineteenth-century studies events coming up this year at QMUL. Give us a follow and watch this space for updates.