Information on the third series of Tennyson Talks, beginning October 2024:

Thinking about online editions of Victorian letters. Some magnificent projects, eg. Darwin, Carlyle, the Brownings, Olive Schreiner, Fox Talbot. But not nearly enough open access resources, even for major 19th-c. figures. victorianresearch.org/other.html#let…

Today, we filed our final brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the publishers’ lawsuit against our library. For 4 years we've been fighting for library rights—what our founder Brewster Kahle calls “a battle for the soul of libraries in the digital age.” blog.archive.org/2024/04/19/int…

Celebrating an extraordinary manuscript. It's great fun to listen while reading the first page of the letter on display.

Woman of the Day Philippa Garrett Fawcett, born OTD 1868 in Cambridge. Daughter of the suffragist Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Henry Fawcett MP, and niece of Britain’s first female doctor Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Philippa achieved distinction in her own right. On 7 June 1890

Applications now open for a fully funded PhD on 'Re-Evaluating the Status of Prints at the British Library'
Birkbeck, University of London and British Library
Please spread the word! bbk.ac.uk/student-servic…

2024 marks ten years since I discovered the first pieces of Doves type at Hammersmith. To celebrate, I'm giving a talk on discovering & digitally recreating the Doves type online for The Emery Walker Trust, 6 pm, 24 April 2024

Book here: emerywalker.org.uk/events

Confronted by this horrifying announcement, words fail me. But it promises to help with that.

Delighted to share this C19 postdoc offer:
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The Punch's Pocket Book Archive project involves 3 research teams: ERIBIA (UR 2610), The Long Nineteenth-Century Network (MMU) and the Nineteenth Century Periodical Press Project (LJMU) Dr Clare Horrocks

NEWS:

Due to problems with our site upgrade, we are dropping the paywall, allowing full access to all our material.

british-history.ac.uk

Additionally, due to problems with search, we are temporarily making available the old version of our site.

archive.british-history.ac.uk

Lovely essay about the very nature of periodicalness, taking off from an examination of 'a periodical of one's own' that partook of broadside, pamphlet, and (love this) 'proto-zine.' With an evocative photo of the publisher, editor, writer, printer, distributor.

One woman’s challenge to the Victorian Legal Professions blogs.openbookpublishers.com/one-womans-cha…

We're really looking forward to hosting the next VPFA study day on 'Knowledge in the Victorian Periodical' with our friends Jonathan Potter and Betty Hagglund Deadline for abstracts is next Friday 15th March 2024 so please share widely! victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/forth…

I love Jane Carlyle's letters and have longed for a one-volume selection. Glad to see Richard Lansdown's edition announced: tinyurl.com/45pfjtk4. But good heavens, the price! $165. Even the PDF is $165! A promised ppb wd be unaffordable at half this amount. What's the point?

A final reminder to get your applications for our annual Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize in by TOMORROW at 11:59 p.m. PST! We're looking forward to learning more about your work!
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Yay!

OK, folks, new book alert. I'm fun at parties, so I've written a book on death. Do come and hear me talk about 19th-c. deathbeds, funerals and other fun stuff, like Queen Victoria, Rider Haggard and Peter Pan (weirdly, yes, all three together).

If you successfully defended a thesis on Victorian periodicals in 2023, do think about submitting it for consideration for the dissertation prize.
I'm delighted to be chairing the panel this year and am very much looking forward to reading exciting new work in the field.

Looking for Queen Mary Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences student researcher for Research Bursary project, a collaboration with the Ragged School Museum Museum: 'Dr Barnardo's East London' - to create app-based, self-guided, east End walking tour for museum visitors/public. 76 hours' work. QMUL students only DM/email me.

Happy publication day to Andrew_Stauffer on the release of Byron: A Life in Ten Letters
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