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We look forward to speaking with you soon Noreen! wlc.zone/5ei

✨Still time to send your proposals for the London 19C Studies Seminar ‘Grad Strand’ conference on objects in the Victorian household, the evolving relationship between animate and inanimate, and storytelling through collections in the nineteenth century! ([email protected]) ✨Deadline extended to 21st April!

Coming up May 15, Walk Listen Create writers-in-residence Shani Cadwallender and Amelia Hodson chat with author and researcher Anna Burton about trees and how to write about them. Details: wlc.zone/5lp Dr. Anna Burton (drannaburton.bsky.social) The Romanticism blog Matthew Green

The new BIPOC Scholars Prize from the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (🎉!) has motivated me to finally make a round-up (not exhaustive) of some major conference prizes in the #19thcentury/#Victorian field. See links for further info 👇 Feel free to post any I've missed!

In our latest issue, Judith Thompson's '‘Operations and cooperations’: John Thelwall, George Birkbeck, and the Movement for Public Education in Britain' explores the collaborations between the radical Romantic polymath and Birkbeck's founder. Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk

Please share this opportunity for a 2-year F/T Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History, working on our major Arts and Humanities Research Council funded research project on the Victorian Hand. Loads of lovely archives to work in 😃 hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

In our latest issue, Ian Newman examines the relationship between the Mechanics’ Magazine and the founding of the London Mechanics’ Institution through the prism of Francis Place, who was involved in each. Read Newman's fantastic article here: 19.bbk.ac.uk

The Westminster Review and London Mechanics’ Institution were established within months of each other in 1823–24. In our latest issue, Hilary Fraser unearths the early history of these two initiatives and the radical London milieu that produced them. 19.bbk.ac.uk

You can read all about the fascinating history of Birkbeck's founding (formerly the London Mechanics' Institute) in our latest issue! 19.bbk.ac.uk

Was the London Mechanics' Institute (now Birkbeck, University of London) a pioneer of the visual lecture? Read John Plunkett on the university's fascinating attempts to illustrate knowledge: from diagrams & transparencies to magic lantern shows to live experiments. 19.bbk.ac.uk

How did developments in adult education from 1823 shape Birkbeck, and how has the college adapted to survive over time? Read Laurel Brake's fantastic article, followed by Robyn Jakeman's timeline, at 19.bbk.ac.uk

In our latest issue, Dr. David McAllister unearths a little-known poem of geologist Gideon Mantell, featured in Anna Birkbeck's 1825 album, and offers a fascinating example of the imbrication of scientific and literary writing in the Romantic era. 19.bbk.ac.uk

Continuing this issue's examination of contributions to Anna Birkbeck’s album, Professor Isobel Armstrong analyses the poetry of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, who advocated ‘the public circulation of affect and the necessity of dreaming as a social need’. 19.bbk.ac.uk

In our latest issue, Zoe Baron and @beatricemossman examine ‘M.S. Lines on Lady Caroline Lamb’, a poem by salon hostess and travel writer Elizabeth Spence which illuminates the provocative friendships, class dynamics, and fraught gender expectations of the early 19th century.

In our latest issue, Emi Del Bene (she/her) examines a rousing poem on Polish independence by Stanisław Egbert Koźmian, an entry in Anna Birkbeck's album which offers insights into the networks of European political exiles and insurrectionists in 1820-30s London. 19.bbk.ac.uk

What did The Strand look like in 1823, through the eyes of William Blake at Fountain Court, or Mary Shelley at the church of St Clement's? Esther Leslie walks us through the buskers, crowds, and pub meetings for radicals in her fascinating article: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/175…

To close our latest issue, Professor Jacqueline Rose asks what nineteenth-century literary writing, and especially Mary Shelley’s relatively unknown novel 'Valperga', can teach us about the crisis facing the humanities today. Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/173…

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Oxford Faculties of English & History are delighted to host this 25th anniversary conference of the British Association for #Victorian Studies on 23–25 July. Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome. #BAVS english.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025