For our final session of this term we have Luisa Levi d'Ancona Modena, talking about: 'Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy'. Join us 11.10am, Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad on Weds 3rd Dec for what promises to be a fascinating session and a great end to the term

Join us this Wednesday 26th Nov, 11.10am in the Kloppenburg Room at Exeter Cohen Quad - to hear Matilda Eriksson talking about Anders Zorn and the Collecting of Vernacular Craft as Personal and National Heritage - continuing our lively term-long conversation about art & craft in the 19thC

This week, we have Eric Storm presenting his new book: Nationalism: a World History, with comments from Faisal Devji and Abigail Green, Weds 19th Nov, 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad - Join Us!

After a great discussion on lace workers last week, join us this Wednesday 12 Nov to hear Melissa Percival (Uni of Exeter) on 'Toile de Jouy - French printed textiles in cultural memory', 11.10am Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad

This week - join us to hear our own David Hopkin talk about Flemish lace, craft, gender and religion. 11.10am, Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad on Weds November 5th.

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This Wednesday 29 Oct, join us 11.10 in the Kloppenburg room at Exeter Cohen Quad to hear Tricia Zakresi on ‘The Art of Fiction: Victorian women writers and the decorative arts’. All welcome, and join us for reasonably priced informal lunch afterwards

Great start to the term! Octavia Young talking about collaborative work & the weavers, dyers, and dye-makers who are obscured by the focus on Morris & Burne-Jones, opening questions around definitions of art/craft/vocation/amateur/professional /technical knowledge/book knowledge and design

This week - come to a new part of William Morris' old college to hear Octavia Young on "Art Workers: The Labourers and Artisans of Morris & Co" - our first seminar of the year on Wednesday 15/10, 11.10am, in the Ruskin Room at Exeter Cohen Quad on Walton St

Lots of 19thC activity at the Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood this term!

Hello! Looking forward to an exciting term of the Oxford Long 19thC Seminar, on the theme of Arts, Crafts & the People: the Social and the Aesthetic in the Long Nineteenth Century. We meet on Wednesdays 11.10-12.30 at Exeter Cohen Quad on Walton St, all welcome.

Today, for our final seminar of the term we have Rashel Zemlinskaya talking about the Renaissance as an ideological construct in 19thC Russia - join us!

TODAY! Please join us

This week we'll hear from Rebecca Gould about "Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory", Weds 04/06 11.10am Ruskin Room, Exeter College, Oxford and online

After great discussion about global history prompted by @poldalmau.bsky.social, very much looking forward to this time next week, when we'll hear from Rebecca Gould about "Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory"

Today! Join us

This Wednesday join us to hear @poldalmau.bsky.social talking about 'Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives', 21/05/25 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad and online. #Iberianists #GlobalHistory #NineteenthCentury - join us for what promises to be a great session!

Coming up next week: @poldalmau.bsky.social talking about 'Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives', 21/05/25 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad and online. #Iberianists #SkyStorians #GlobalHistory #NineteenthCentury - join us for what promises to be a great session!

Coming up next week: @poldalmau.bsky.social talking about 'Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives', 21/05/25 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad and online. #Iberianists #SkyStorians #GlobalHistory #NineteenthCentury - join us for what promises to be a great session!

Today!!

Coming up soon! @csloanox.bsky.social will be kicking off our series 'Writing Histories/Histories of Writing' with a talk on 'Written developments: literacy, child development & young writing lives in mid-19thC-England'. Weds 07/05, 11.10-12.30 in person at Exeter Cohen Quad, or online via Teams

Join us in Oxford or online a week tomorrow to hear @csloanox.bsky.social on "Written developments: literacy, child development, and young writing lives in mid-nineteenth-century England" - the first talk in this term's series on Writing Histories / Histories of Writing.

First post of Oxford Long 19thC Seminar bluesky acct to announce our exciting upcoming programme on Writing Histories / Histories of Writing; with papers by @csloanox.bsky.social, @poldalmau.bsky.social, @rrgould.bsky.social, & Rashel Zemlinskaya - join us on Wednesday mornings!

First post of Oxford Long 19thC Seminar bluesky acct to announce our exciting upcoming programme on Writing Histories / Histories of Writing; with papers by @csloanox.bsky.social, @poldalmau.bsky.social, @rrgould.bsky.social, & Rashel Zemlinskaya - join us on Wednesday mornings!