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Mariam Zarif is a PhD candidate at King’s College London with interests in New Woman writing, ninteenth-century women’s penny weeklies and New Journalism. You can find her on twitter @MariamZarif1 ‘What Pompeii was to the Romans that Brighton is to Londoners’ exclaimed one Brighton Resident in his report of 1889. He elaborated on the city’s …

We now have a new payment system: Stripe. Like PayPal (which we will continue to support), Stripe enables subscriptions to automatically recur each year and is fully integrated with our online membership system. We are asking all members who currently pay via standing order to transfer onto this new Stripe system. There are a number …

15th January 2020 University of Southampton ‘Reform’ From fraught restructures of the voting franchise and the education system, to vast infrastructural redevelopments and the overhaul of poor relief systems, an understanding of the reform movements of the long-nineteenth century and their various implications for politics, culture and society continue to play a central role in …

Elections to positions on the committee of the British Association for Victorian Studies from September 2019 will be confirmed at the Annual General Meeting, on Friday 30 August 2019, 13:15 – 14:00 in Lecture Theatre 3 at Dundee University. All members of the Association, whether attending the conference as delegates or not, are welcome to …

Outline Nineteenth-Century Matters is an initiative jointly run by the British Association for Romantic Studies and the British Association for Victorian Studies. Now in its fourth year, it is aimed at postdoctoral researchers who have completed their PhD, but are not currently employed in a full-time academic post. Nineteenth-Century Matters offers unaffiliated early career researchers …

Free online course (MOOC) starting 28 October 2019 – Open to all Sign up today at http://www.futurelearn.com/courses/humphry-davy The MOOC is intended for anyone with an interest in Humphry Davy, or early-nineteenth-century literature, science, or history. It will explore some of the most significant moments of Davy’s life and career, including his childhood in Cornwall, his …

May 2021 Guest Editors: Seán Hewitt & Anna Pilz Studies of the intertwined histories of Great Britain, Ireland, and their associated islands have given rise to the notion of ‘archipelagic studies’. As in John Kerrigan’s seminal work Archipelagic English, the cover of which shows the familiar image of Great Britain and Ireland on a map …

Ole Münch recently submitted his PhD thesis at the University of Constance, Germany. In his study he investigates how people of different religions interacted and affiliated at the Rag Fair street market of early Victorian London. Ole’s thoughts on Mayhew and the STPA are further elaborated in an article he published in the London Magazine …

The University of Delaware Library, in Newark, Delaware, and the Delaware Art Museum are pleased to offer a joint Fellowship in Pre-Raphaelite studies, funded by the Amy P. Goldman Foundation. This one-month Fellowship, awarded annually, is intended for scholars conducting significant research in the lives and works of the Pre-Raphaelites and their friends, associates, and …

University of Wolverhampton 10 September 2019 The programme, together with abstracts, registration details and further information, can be found here. The programme includes: Patricia Lara-Betancourt, Kingston University Retailing the Modern Home: The Large Furniture and Furnishing Firm in London West End, 1890-1914 Judith Davies, University of Birmingham A large family of small shopkeepers: the Wood …

Session at the Association for Art History Annual Conference 1-3 April 2020 After William Telbin, Act I, Scene II, The Tempest, (c) V&A Museum Convened on behalf of the three-year AHRC-funded project, ‘Theatre and Visual Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century’, this session seeks to create cross-disciplinary dialogue between scholars of art history, visual culture and theatre history. The …

Alan D.D. is an author, journalist and blogger from Venezuela. He works with books, comics, music, movies and anything else that catches his attention. 99% of the time, it’s something about witches. He’s currently studying a Masters in Communication and Development and searching for a 24/7 chocolate supplier.  Once in a while, it’s good for …

The Davy Notebooks Project has launched Help us to transcribe the manuscript notebooks of Sir Humphry Davy The Davy Notebooks Project has just launched on Zooniverse, the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research. Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was one of the most significant and famous figures in the scientific and literary culture of …

20th September 2019, University of Leeds ‘ASTONISHING SALES PROMPT LARGER PRINT RUN’Fun, 1868 (vol. VII), p. 5. 19th Century UK Periodicals. Funded by the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities, New Directions in Nineteenth-Century Periodical Studies is a conference to promote discussion of innovative research amongst those working in the field, at all …

The launch will consist of an evening of papers on the Chartist radical and penny dreadful writer, Reynolds. The Reynolds society has emerged out of a collaboration between the University of Roehampton and DePaul University in Chicago and aims to bring Reynolds to the attention of both the public and academic community. This post has …

Shaina Paggett is an undergraduate English and History student at Keele University. You can find her on twitter @ShainaPaggett . This summer, I had the honour of attending my first academic conference held outside of my own university. My interest in Victorian Literature has grown over the past couple of years and, in spite of my …

Sarah McFee is a MA English graduate from Teesside University. Her research focuses primarily on speculative fiction including portrayals of disability in the Victorian Gothic, and representations and constructions of gender and race in Neo-Victorian fiction. You can connect with her on LinkedIn. Christopher P. Toumey states that within the Victorian era there existed “moral …

The convenors of the seminar wish to recruit four graduate volunteers for the academic year 2019/20. One Graduate Representative to assist with the planning and promotion of seminars in 2019/20. Three Co-Organisers for the annual London Nineteenth-Century Studies Graduate Conference (January 2020). Volunteers will be responsible for inviting plenary speakers, drafting a call-for-papers, selecting papers and curating panels. These positions …

Guest Editor: Dr Michael J. Sullivan (University of Oxford) Deadline: 20 September 2019 Address for Submissions: michael.sullivan@chch.ox.ac.uk Submissions are invited for articles concerning any aspects of the style, influences, and literary connections of Alfred Tennyson, to feature in a special issue of Victorian Poetry planned for publication in the spring of 2021. Appearing against the …

16 – 17 October 2019 A collaborative two-day conference at Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village and Royal Holloway, University of London To coincide with Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village (WG-AV) exhibition John Frederick Lewis: Facing Fame (9 July – 3 November 2019) this interdisciplinary event aims to explore new perspectives on the intersection between Orientalism and visual …

The videos for BAVS Talks 2019 are now available to view online. The afternoon of four special talks by leading Victorianists was hosted by the University of Liverpool in May. The videos can all be found on the front page of the BAVS website and are linked below. The speakers (and their talks) are: Helen …

Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA March 5-8, 2020 This session engages in a matter-oriented approach, raising questions about the ontological status of the autonomous writing subject by joining it to the vast network of relations to objects within an area—ecozone, bioregion, biome, or ecosystem. Though the contributions by science-based writers are important (e.g., Humphry Davy, …

Erin Farley is the Library & Information Officer for Local History at Dundee Central Library. She has recently completed a PhD at the University of Strathclyde on ‘The Place of Poetry in Victorian Dundee,’ focusing on creative communities and their relationships to place in the industrial city. She is on Twitter @aliasmacalias. In the mid-1830s, …

This is an open call for reviewers for Victoriographies: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing, 1790-1914, co-edited by Patricia Pulham and Diane Piccitto and published by Edinburgh University Press which produces three issues annually. We especially welcome early career researchers, post-doctoral students, advanced graduate students, and post-graduates. Reviews should be 800-1000 words for single books and …

Sarah McFee is a MA English graduate from Teesside University. Her research focuses primarily on speculative fiction including portrayals of disability in the Victorian Gothic, and representations and constructions of gender and race in Neo-Victorian fiction. You can connect with her on LinkedIn. From the sixteenth century onwards, Britain built a global Empire. It enacted …

Gareth Reeves is a final year PhD candidate in the English department at Durham University. His research explores the value of self-education in fin-de-siècle London, chiefly in the novels of George Gissing. He can be found on Twitter @GarethReeves4 I am in the throes of hammering out a conference paper on George Gissing’s much-neglected, unfinished historical novel, Veranilda (1904), …

We’ve managed to keep the costs as low as possible, thanks to the support of various sponsors, not least of all the BAVS executive committee, Dundee’s Centre for Scottish Culture, and the Scottish Centre for Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies. The Conference Dinner at Chamber East, a lovely nineteenth-century building, is FREE for everyone (sign up …

Harriet Thompson is an AHRC-funded PhD candidate in the English department at King’s College London. Her doctoral thesis explores depictions of telegraph operators in late nineteenth-century British and American literature. Harriet’s broader research interests lie in the intersections between literature, telecommunications technologies, gender, and sexuality. Harriet is co-editor of the King’s English blog and can …

New production of Jane Clegg, St John Ervine’s 1913 drama of family, currently on at the Finborough Theatre till 18 May. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/apr/26/jane-clegg-review-forgotten-suffrage-era-gem-shines-again FLASH SALE. We’ve a limited number of £12 tickets now on sale. Use code JANE12 to get your discount tickets for Saturday 11 May 7.30pm and Tuesday 14th May 7.30pm when booked online ONLY: https://www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk/productions/2019/jane-clegg.php …

A charity-in-formation, PBLF seeks an academic as either a specific specialist, or as General Fundraising Supervisor, or Secretarial trustee. Please see the website (95% finished) www.pblf.lifestones.biz If interested in being a co-founding trustee, please go to ‘Get Involved’ page and click on ‘Trustees’. Then click on the various possible labels to see the various job …