Excited to start archival research this month on Indian women's pioneering periodical fashion journalism in late colonial India! Funded by the Pasold Research Fund research activity grant ✍️👗

Today is International Archives Day. Archives are vital to reclaiming the lives of women in history. Let’s celebrate them! #WomensHistory #GenderHistory #IAW2024

This year’s Colby Lecturer at #RSVP24 is Andrew Hobbs. Dr. Andrew Hobbs was the 2019 winner of the RSVP Colby Book Prize for his work, A Fleet Street in Every Town: The Provincial Press in England, 1855 - 1900.

Another year, another lovely Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) conference in Stirling 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Such a brilliant community of scholars, I always come away with the most encouraging words and constructive feedback on my periodicals research ☺️

Sezincote: The Mughal Cotswolds

WE DID IT! Bristol, we made history💚 Thank you so much to the people of Bristol Central who have elected me as their MP As this city's first Green MP, I promise to be a strong, independent voice for Bristol's values, pushing the govt to be bolder on the issues that matter

Three women reading together - one holds the book while two others eagerly peek! From Maharashtra Mahila, Marathi periodical that began publication in 1901. Many thanks to Tarini Bhamburkar for sharing this with me! She found the periodical at the Mumbai Marathi Grantha Sangrahalaya.

Loving the comments section. A bounty of endless suggestions. My list keeps growing!

Lilavati Singh with Isabella Thoburn, who founded a women's college in Lucknow in 1870. Singh, an alumnus, became the first Indian woman to serve as professor and later vice-principal at the college. Photo is dated 1900. Source: Florence L Nichols' 1909 book on Singh.

Adapt The Tenant of Wildfell Hall for the big screen, you cowards 🍿

🎉 South Asian Heritage Month starts today! Our theme is “Free To Be Me," Share your stories and tag us: What does #FreeToBeMe mean to you? (South Asian Heritage Month runs annually from 18th July to 17th August) #SAHM2024 #FreeToBeMe #SouthAsianHeritageMonth

Oh my god the DRIVER of this tube just came into the carriage and told off someone for playing music without headphones this is the best day of my life

A milestone for 2024: submitted my PhD thesis today! 📚

Wrote a little piece for the Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing blog! bloomsburyliterarystudiesblog.com/2024/10/findin…

Here is our Call for Chapters! Please share. Deadline for proposals is 15th January 2025.

Today is 159th birth anniv of Rudyard Kipling. This Kipling Bungalow inside JJ School of Art Campus, Mumbai was built a few yards from the spot where he was born. His father, John Lockwood Kipling, arrived in Mumbai in 1865 & was appointed prof of architectural sculpture at JJ

In one week, Tarini Bhamburkar leads the VDRN reading group (3pm on 31st Jan). We'll be discussing 'Indian Lady Graduates' via the Indian Ladies' Magazine. All are welcome - relevant info on our website Decolonising the Discipline English Association BAVS Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) victoriandiversities.co.uk

I’m now also on BlueSky at @victarinist.bsky.social !

Delighted to see the photo of nineteenth-century social reformer Shevantibai Nikambe from my article on the cover of the latest issue of VPR!