💥Listen up folks💥 Big announcement coming tomorrow afternoon at 3pm about my next book - the follow up to The Five, which involves this woman and this woman…

I’m delighted to be delivering a (virtual) keynote for this conference!

Hathi Trust obligingly lets users create "collections" of its digital texts. Here's one I made entitled "19th-century literary life" that mostly consists of memoirs by authors, contemporary accounts of publishing houses and periodicals, etc. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listi… #victorian

Calling all #ArchiveDetectives! Our crowdsourcing project, Where's That Place?, is back! We'll be sharing the Hobart Aerial Photography Collection, photographed in the 1920s and 1930s. Can you identify this seaside town? See more in our Flickr group 👇 flickr.com/groups/histori…

Celebrating #worlddigitalpreservationday by examining Victorian Humour in the Digital Age, opening with Pickings from Punch with Dr Bob Nicholson. @LJMUImpact Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) DPC Chatter The Long Nineteenth-Century Network Françoise Baillet

Join us for a special #RSVPDigEv honoring scholar and past president, Brian Maidment, on Nov. 22 at 8am / 11am EST / 4pm BST. After brief remarks on the impact and influence of Brian's work, we will have an "open mic" session for all who wish to share. rs4vp.org/special-event-…

Aberystwyth (a). If you have a Welsh speaker in your life, for crying out loud send them to the Lyric in Carmarthen on the 23rd of November. I’m recording a new Welsh language stand up show for S4C, doing two shows at 6pm and 8pm. On telly over Christmas. theatrausirgar.co.uk/en/shows/elis-…

Job alert: help us raise vital funds for the Museum! ✨ Our mission is to preserve and celebrate Soane’s legacy, in his Museum and beyond. As Development Manager, you will lead applications to trusts, foundations and major donors. Curious? 🔍 bit.ly/3Qwe0lW |⏰ 24/11

I probably won't be posting here much anymore, so come find me in the Other Place where I'm currently posting about whether there's really a scene with a dude reading a newspaper in Gladiator II.

Contrary to popular belief, #19thC novelists often did not use cliffhangers to keep readers coming back 🤯 What did they do instead? Join the "Project Endings" team & find out! They need your help id'ing strategies they used instead. More details here: rs4vp.org/join-the-proje…

Jack the Ripper became headline news in 1888 but did the press invent a killer for their own gain? 📰 🩸 Even if it kept that brutal murderer on the loose... This is Jack The Ripper: #WrittenInBlood. 🟡 Available 8 April

How did the headlines of the day describe Jack the Ripper? 📰 Historians Dr Fern Riddell and Dr Bob Nicholson look over the papers of 1888 for insights into the time. 🟡 Jack The Ripper: #WrittenInBlood available 8 April

Were the public actually enjoying Jack the Ripper's rampage? Dr Fern Riddell and Dr Bob Nicholson look for answers in the headlines of 1888. 📰 🟡 Jack The Ripper: #WrittenInBlood available 8 April

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What did people think of the police when Jack the Ripper was on his rampage? Our historians Dr Fern Riddell and Dr Bob Nicholson find out from the headlines of the day. 📰 🟡 Jack The Ripper: #WrittenInBlood Tuesdays 9pm

The press seemed to have little empathy for the woman slain by Jack the Ripper, as historians Dr Fern Riddell and Dr Bob Nicholson discover from the horrific headlines of 1888. 📰 🟡 Jack The Ripper: #WrittenInBlood Tuesdays 9pm

Jack the Ripper has haunted our headlines for over a century but can our historians figure out which headline was from back in 1888... or now? 📰🔎 Even more importantly, will Dr Fern Riddell defeat Dr Bob Nicholson in this quiz?! 🟡 Jack The Ripper: #WrittenInBlood Tuesdays 9pm

Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico, December 21, 1953

New job alert! We’re hiring a full-time, permanent new Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in 20thC American History at Edge Hill University. Come work with our fab team of historians and students. jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX206/lec…

I’m on TV tonight! Check out the first episode of Britain’s Railway Empire at 8pm on Channel 4. It’s a new, two part series about the history of the railways. It’s not just a story about tech and engineering, but covers the social and cultural impact too.