BAVS 2019 – Victorian Renewals
SCVS is delighted to be co-hosting the British Association of Victorian Studies 2019 conference at the University of Dundee, 28-30 August 2019, on the theme ‘Victorian Renewals.’ The CFP has now […]
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Echoes of William Blake’s “London” in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations
Sophie Phelps is a third-year PhD student at Anglia Ruskin University. Her thesis is on “liminal characters in the novels of Charles Dickens”. Her research focuses on characters that inhabit […]
‘Beauty’s Eyes Waltz’ to ‘The Bridal Morn’: Love Songs and Piano Sheet Music at the Royal College of Music Museum
Dr Anna Maria Barry is a Museum Research Assistant at the Royal College of Music Museum. She tweets @DrAnnaBarry In nineteenth-century Britain, the piano was the domestic instrument of choice. […]
PhD Studentship: ‘Industrial Workers as Readers: Libraries, Reading Rooms and the Industrial Workplace in the Long Nineteenth Century’
Due to the withdrawal of the student originally appointed, we are re-advertising for a PhD student to join the ‘Piston, Pen & Press’ research team. The start date for this PhD […]
THE THOMAS HARDY SOCIETY PATRICK TOLFREE STUDENT ESSAY COMPETITION: 2019 “HARDY NOW”
Welcome to this year’s Patrick Tolfree essay competition, open to students of any academic level over the age of 18 and living anywhere in the world. In line with the […]
Ask, Look, Share: Three Lessons from the Ha(i)rry Ransom Center
Heather Hind is a third year PhD student at the universities of Exeter and Bristol. Her thesis is a study of hairwork in Victorian literature and culture with a particular […]
CFP: Queen Victoria’s contemporaries: born in 1819
Friday 17th May 2019, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre Scottish Centre for Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies and BAVS workshop Keynotes: Dr Trev Broughton (University of York) on contemporaneity among Victoria’s Victorians, […]
CFP: Visuality and the Theatre in the Long Nineteenth Century
Conference at the University of Warwick Thursday 27 – Saturday 29 June 2019 Nineteenth-Century theatre is known for the visual emphasis of its staging practices. Responding to audience demand, theatres […]
