There's still time to register for the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference on 23-25 July at the University of Oxford. See the full programme and register on our website: www.english.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025 #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC @bavs-uk.bsky.social

Delighted to announce that the 2025 BAVS-Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a second monograph has been awarded to Maria Damkjær for Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines (Oxford University Press, 2024).

My book is out now in paperback and on sale for (the bargain price of) £26! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/victorian...

My thoughts on THAT Wuthering Heights dress: theconversation.com/margot-robbi...

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Oxford Faculties of English & History are delighted to host the 25th anniversary conference of the British Association for #Victorian Studies on 23–25 July. Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC

Congratulations to my wonderful colleague, Dr Roberts!

Huge congratulations to our incredibly talented EL & CW students on the publication of their student journal *Serif Forms*

A quirky bit of Dickensian afterlife I just discovered: a type of Pacific Ocean char 👇 is called the Dolly Varden trout, named after the character in Dickens's Barnaby Rudge - or more likely the brightly-patterned Dolly Varden dress.

Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report

Loved teaching Bridgerton this week as part of Surrey’s cross-disciplinary module Understanding Popular Culture: From Dickens to Disney

📢 @jbhist.bsky.social & I are very pleased to announce that we are seeking a f/t 2-year Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History to join our major @ahrcpress funded research project on the Victorian Hand. Closes 6 December. Spread the word!!! hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Hello #bluesky #Academicsky I’m a Surrey Future Fellow at the Uni of Surrey, currently researching second-hand clothes and sustainability in 19C literature and culture 👋🏼

Made one of these starter packs (interesting concept) and surely have not included many that should be here so please do comment and share to be added. go.bsky.app/985g3hA