Dickens, before writing Bleak House:

Love how travelling just about anywhere in the UK produces a #Dickens connection, even Reading train station (also, I’ll take any chance to reproduce the ‘WHERE IS THAT TURKEY’ telegram. Which is starting to feel quite seasonal…)

Oh Royal Holloway you are so unfailingly photogenic

Advice sought from academics - which humanities academic publisher might be best to speak to if I want to use a lot of illustrations / images? Who is good at handling and printing these from your experiences?

London lights 🎄

Serene moments at Castle Howard 📷 Charlotte Graham #CastleHoward #APlaceLikeNoOther #York #Yorkshire #HowardianHills #NorthYorkshire #DaysOut #BeautifulDestinations #PlacesToVisit #Autumn #Autumnal #AutumnVibes #November #Mist #Morning

Ravish me with Victorian heritage Royal Holloway chapel Beautiful moment of stillness following a packed & very chatty 19thc studies networking event RHUL Centre for Victorian Studies connecting across disciplines - thanks so much Dr Helen Kingstone - also on 🟦, Heathcliff Newman & Izzy Barrett-Lally for organising!

Yup

Beautiful winter light Royal Holloway campus at today’s School of Humanities Research away day. A great setting to hear about all the fascinating research colleagues are doing, in Classics and History and Languages as well as English

Great Oxford Life-Writing launch for ‘Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere’ - exploring the distinctive forms and themes that emerge when you have 11% of the world’s population, are 80% oceanic (vs 60% in north) and all the major publishing conglomerations are in based in north

Hypnotic

I thought Sir Cresswell Cresswell had my favourite name of the nineteenth century, but I’ve just been alerted to the existence of the Rev. Dr. Bulkeley Bandinel (erstwhile librarian Bodleian Libraries)

Enjoying the George Eliot stash at Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry: Durade’s c. 1880 portrait of her, a statue of Florence Nightingale that she owned, and her writing desk; her sewing box; her writing cabinet. I’m especially interested by the Nightingale statue…

Thanks IES Laura Cleaver for a great conf yesterday on Belle da Costa Greene and the European Book Trade! Loved hearing about the archives & objects that illuminate her career & networks, including these currently on display The Morgan exhib about her librarianship

Have you ever thought about what you see — or don’t see — in your mind’s eye when you read? Take a look at this piece I’ve just written about aphantasia and reading: tes.com/magazine/teach…

Me waiting for research scans I’ve ordered from American libraries like ‘Cookie Monster wants her cookies’

Update: cookies have arrived, they are so tasty, and I’m looking forward to presenting on them at conferences this summer (might be stretching this metaphor past sense…)

My personal highlight from the newly-donated Jon A. Lindseth #LewisCarroll collection Christ Church, currently on display till April 17, is this beautiful edition of ‘The Hunting of the Snark’. Victorian weirdness shaped my childhood…

Meanwhile the illustrations from the 2016 Bratislavan version of both ‘Alice’ books are enough to haunt your dreams #AliceInWonderland

The Victorian novel: where someone tries to shoot you, and your biggest problem is that you can’t possibly leave the house without your hat (Trollope, Phineas Redux, 1873)