On Wed 7 Dec, join us in QMUL’s beautiful Octagon Room for mulled wine and mince pies from 5:30pm & at 6pm a programme of secular and sacred carols led by a choir and contextualised with short critical commentaries from QMUL colleagues. All welcome! eventbrite.co.uk/e/carols-in-th…

More gorgeous STRIKE POSTER DESIGN from our super-talented Birkbeck, University of London students. UCU #ucuRISING please share these far & wide to show your solidarity with Birkbeck UCU staff & students! ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

Our next event is on 11 May will focus on the themes of religion, freethinking, science and technology in the 19th century, and the legacies of these discourses today - sign up here! eventbrite.co.uk/e/c19-legacies…

C-COURSES - goo.gl/scholar/TMmsr7 #ScholarAlerts The Case of Rebellious Susan and The Liars just popped up in my Google Scholar Alerts. On the syllabus for the Oxford Faculty of English MSt option on #Victorian and #Edwardian drama. Nice to see #HenryArthurJones getting some attention!

One week to go until conference! Looking forward to those in person at @BGULincoln and those online worldwide! Keep alert for our hashtag #VPFAHiddenHistories

Lovely to be in sunny Lincoln for the VPFA conference, about to start. Speaking later today about #HenryArthurJones and his challenge to late Victorian religious censorship. #VPFAHiddenHistories

Here's a whole bunch of Birkbeck C19 Studies alumni attending the VPFA conference in Lincoln. Having fun and learning stuff with cohort mates Dr Janette Leaf 🪲 🐝👻 🌊👩‍🦰 and Dr Helena Esser along with new friends Professor Carolyn Oulton, Professor Julia Kuehn and Professor Andrew King.

Just received this letter confirming an Honorary Research Fellowship in the School of Arts at Birkbeck. I am utterly delighted!

I'm honored to have an essay coming out in this great collection edited by Graham Wolfe: routledge.com/the-routledge-… #TheatreFiction #NewWoman #VictorianStudies

We’re delighted to introduce the latest issue of 19: ‘Nineteenth-Century Infrastructures’. Guest edited by Joanna Hofer-Robinson and Nicola Kirkby, this issue brings C19th projects into dialogue w/ critical infrastructure studies Read it here: 19.bbk.ac.uk

Join me for a FREE online talk about my research with Bristol Museums (Bristol Museum & Art Gallery M Shed ) and the University of West England's Regional History Centre (@RegionalHistory @HistoryUWE) on 18 January from 6.30pm to 8pm. Details and bookings below: bristolmuseums.org.uk/m-shed/whats-o…

Excited to see the spring tour dates for the brilliant Mark Bruce Company and their dance theatre production of #Frankenstein. The London leg is at The Place from 26 to 28 March. Any friends from BAVS or VPFA coming along? theplace.org.uk/events/spring-…

A wonderful tribute to Jim in The Guardian amp.theguardian.com/stage/2024/feb…

Next in #NeoVicTV : Dr Megen de Bruin-Molé 🦇 will talk about all things gothic in neo-Victorian television! It's 17 April (Wed), 6.30 pm CET, on Zoom. Registration is open - follow the link: zoom.us/meeting/regist…

There are only a few tickets left for Between Two Fires - Sylvia Pankhurst's lost play. Our stellar line-up is: Tanya Reynolds, Jamie Ballard, Karl Johnson, Martina Laird, and Alex Austin. Book now → londonlibrary.co.uk/whatson

eventbrite.co.uk/e/sacred-heart… Looking forward to this event next week, when my friend Alex Dijkhuis will be discussing the history of this 17th century convent, and its historic buildings... a very special little corner of Hammersmith.

Still some places available for this free 1-day University of Hertfordshire conference: "British Theatre and the 1920s" which takes in detectives, night-clubs and man-eating beetles Wilton's Music Hall Friday 11 July. Booking closes 5 July. All welcome eventbrite.co.uk/manage/events/…