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Thanks to all who attended last week’s screening of ‘The Man Who Painted His House’, which played to a packed Birkbeck cinema. @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social More on this project soon!

19.bbk.ac.uk The new issue of our open access journal (ed. by @drkarinkoehler.bsky.social and Gregory Tate) asks how our understanding of nineteenth-century literature and culture changes when we attend more closely to the four nations’ multilingual past and present

@drkarinkoehler.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social @openlibhums.bsky.social @luisacale.bsky.social @drvickymills.bsky.social @cncsi.bsky.social

New issue now available! 'Issue 37: Nineteenth-Century Literary Languages' asks how our understanding of C19th literature and culture changes when we attend more closely to the multilingual past and present of the 4 nations in the UK. Ed. by Karin Koehler and Gregory Tate 19.bbk.ac.uk

Preview screening of my short film ‘The Man Who Painted His House’ on the life and extraordinary work of Victorian art-workman David Parr. 7th May 6 pm Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square. @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social Book your tickets here! www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event....

To close our latest issue, Professor Jacqueline Rose asks what nineteenth-century literary writing, and especially Mary Shelley’s relatively unknown novel 'Valperga', can teach us about the crisis facing the humanities today. Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...

What did The Strand look like in 1823, through the eyes of William Blake at Fountain Court, or Mary Shelley at the church of St Clement's? @afoggyplace.bsky.social walks us through the buskers, crowds, and pub meetings for radicals in her fascinating article: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...

In our latest issue, Emi Del Bene examines a rousing poem on Polish independence by Stanisław Egbert Koźmian, an entry in Anna Birkbeck's album which offers insights into the networks of European political exiles and insurrectionists in 1820-30s London. 19.bbk.ac.uk

In our latest issue, Zoe Baron and Beatrice Mossman examine ‘M.S. Lines on Lady Caroline Lamb’, a poem by salon hostess and travel writer Elizabeth Spence which illuminates the provocative friendships, class dynamics, and fraught gender expectations of the early 19th century. 19.bbk.ac.uk

Continuing this issue's examination of contributions to Anna Birkbeck’s album, Professor Isobel Armstrong analyses the poetry of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, who advocated ‘the public circulation of affect and the necessity of dreaming as a social need’. Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk

In our latest issue, Dr. David McAllister unearths a little-known poem of geologist Gideon Mantell, featured in Anna Birkbeck's 1825 album, and offers a fascinating example of the imbrication of scientific and literary writing in the Romantic era. Read this article and more at 19.bbk.ac.uk

How did developments in adult education from 1823 shape Birkbeck, and how has the college adapted to survive over time? Read Laurel Brake's fantastic article, followed by Robyn Jakeman's timeline, at 19.bbk.ac.uk

Was the London Mechanics' Institute (now @BirkbeckUoL) a pioneer of the visual lecture? Read @Prof_JPlunkett on the university's fascinating attempts to illustrate knowledge: from diagrams & transparencies to magic lantern shows to live experiments. 19.bbk.ac.uk

Celebrating Birkbeck English and a new edition of @19birkbeck.bsky.social on the anniversary of the college foundation day last night. A fantastic issue put together by @luisacale.bsky.social

"I believe, then, that the characteristics of Gothic are the following, placed in the order of their importance: 1. Savageness 2. Changefulness 3. Naturalism 4. Grotesqueness 5. Rigidity 6. Redundance 6. Big neon signs bearing the word 'Gothic' in a sort of spooky typeface." John Ruskin

The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now up on jobs.ac.uk - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r... Please spread the word!!!!

Here's the link: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1... And here's the Westminster Review: catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00050...

The Westminster Review and the London Mechanics’ Institution were established within months of each other in 1823–24. In our latest issue, Hilary Fraser unearths the early history of these two initiatives and the radical London milieu that produced them. Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk

Next up, Ian Newman examines the relationship between the Mechanics’ Magazine and the founding of the London Mechanics’ Institution through the prism of Francis Place, who was involved in each. Read here: 19.bbk.ac.uk

In our latest issue, Judith Thompson's '‘Operations and cooperations’: John Thelwall, George Birkbeck, and the Movement for Public Education in Britain' explores the collaborations between the radical Romantic polymath and Birkbeck's founder. Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk

New issue of @19birkbeck.bsky.social out now! '1823-2023: Literature, Invention, Radical Thinking at the London Mechanics' Institution.' This issue revisits the Mechanics' Institute movement and urges new thinking to reinvent literature’s role across disciplines: 19.bbk.ac.uk/issue/1289/i...

A new open-access journal, Public Humanities, has launched. I'm proud to have a piece in the inaugural "Manifesto" issue, on "The Necessity of Public Writing." I hope academo-friends will read, circulate, propose, and submit. doi.org/10.1017/pub....

Our new issue is now live! '1823-2023: Literature, Invention, Radical Thinking at the London Mechanics' Institution' 19.bbk.ac.uk @openlibhums.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social

Starter pack for journals of literary scholarship. Please share so we can add to the list as more journals create accounts here. go.bsky.app/2Asc5P2

This looks like an excellent issue of a great journal. I've already enjoyed Jacqueline Rose's essay on the connections between Mary Shelley's Valperga and the threats to learning facing Birkbeck, more than most universities, at the current moment... 1/2

Our new issue is now live! '1823-2023: Literature, Invention, Radical Thinking at the London Mechanics' Institution' 19.bbk.ac.uk @openlibhums.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social

Knowledge is Power - 1823-2023: Literature, Invention, Radical Thinking at the London Mechanics' Institution, new issue of @19birkbeck.bsky.social, celebrating two hundred years of #literature among the disciplines Read us: 19.bbk.ac.uk

If you’re a CHASE- funded PhD student with an interest in editorial work, online publishing and world-leading C19th research, apply for this internship with us! www.chase.ac.uk/placements/1...

If you’re a CHASE- funded PhD student with an interest in editorial work, online publishing and world-leading C19th research, apply for this internship with us! www.chase.ac.uk/placements/1...

Kameron Sanzo’s “Around the Wire: Telegraphic Infrastructure and Gothic Energies in Late Victorian Britain”, explores the ‘South-East Asian Indigenous communities and lifeways that resisted the Western energy project around’ telegraph wire production.

Alicia Barnes’s “Railways, Disjointed Mobility, and National Decline: Navigating George Chesney’s ‘The Battle of Dorking’” considers depictions of railway infrastructure in ‘the first example of invasion-scare fiction’. You can read it here: 19.bbk.ac.uk

Have you checked out the latest issue of @19birkbeck.bsky.social? A fav new issue dedicated to Nineteenth-Century Infrastructures guest-edited by Joanna Hofer-Robinson and @nicolakirkby.bsky.social Read it here: 19.bbk.ac.uk/issue/915/in...

Karin Koehler’s article, “I was not know for sure what be the Queen, Evan; was you?’: Fictions of Development in Amy Dillwyn’s The Rebecca Rioter” considers Dillwyn’s depiction of Wales’s complex relation to infrastructural forces in Britain. Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk

Caroline Sumpter’s article ‘‘The great event of modern history’: The Victorian Press Visualizes its Infrastructure’ asks what was politically at stake when the press put its materiality and mobility on display. Read now in the latest issue of 19: 19.bbk.ac.uk

Caroline Sumpter’s article ‘‘The great event of modern history’: The Victorian Press Visualizes its Infrastructure’ asks what was politically at stake when the press put its materiality and mobility on display. Read now in the latest issue of 19: 19.bbk.ac.uk

So proud of this issue! Thank you to our fantastic contributors - @claireconnolly.bsky.social James Smith, Danielle Traynor, Ruth Livesey, Caroline Sumpter, Karin Koehler, Alicia Barnes, Kameron Sanzo, and Susan Zieger.

Thanks @nicolakirkby.bsky.social for your time and patience !

A great series of death-studies talks- do sign up!

Come along to our Grave Matters seminar on Death in the Digital Age Mon 27 Nov at 6pm GMT for discussion on death and reality TV in the Televisual Gothic, grief in the digital age and Death Positivity. To book see 👇https://ticketpass.org/event/EZWQOC/death-in-the-digital-age-2#description

In our latest issue, @LiveseyRuth considers Trollope’s Barsetshire Chronicles and infrastructural transition in her article ‘Restructuring with Anthony Trollope: Managing Change in Chronicle Provincial Fiction’. You can read the article here: 19.bbk.ac.uk

In our latest issue, @LiveseyRuth considers Trollope’s Barsetshire Chronicles and infrastructural transition in her article ‘Restructuring with Anthony Trollope: Managing Change in Chronicle Provincial Fiction’. You can read the article here: 19.bbk.ac.uk

IT’S LITERALLY FALSE. WE HAVE DATA THAT SHOWS HUMANITIES AND ARTS MAJORS GET WELL-PAYING JOBS. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I think Braddon’s The Trail of the Serpent is fascinating! Wilkie Collins’s No Name is another under-read favorite. If you really want to go out on a limb, try Eliza Lynn Linton’s Sowing the Wind.

Thank you, wonderful OLH! If you’re a humanities nerd or a Victorianist, follow them, follow us, join our merry band, etc.

Anyone else on the #c19th list have any sensational reading tips?

Deep into The Signal-Man work at the mo with the hope of finishing it in time for Christmas 🕰️🎄. Here are some pics I’ve made/collected to inspire me/‘borrow’ from. Onwards.