A happy afternoon looking up plays by #HenryArthurJones in the Lord Chamberlain's Plays at the British Library. It's surprisingly moving to hold the manuscript of The Silver King, Henry Arthur's first great success, and for many the pinnacle of #Victorian #melodrama.

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Here are a few of the #BirkbeckVictorianists on tour again, this time at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social 2025 Conference in Oxford. With @janetteleaf.bsky.social, @helenaesser.bsky.social and @nonfictioness.bsky.social.

Great to see my fellow #BirkbeckVictorianist @helenaesser.bsky.social in action this morning, talking about #Ouida and spy fiction at the @vpfa.bsky.social conference in Birmingham. With fellow panellists Professor Claudia Capancioni and Dr. Alison Dingle.

Just chaired an excellent first panel of #VPFAExtremes with fellow #Birkbeck Victorianists @janetteleaf.bsky.social, Jeremy Newton, & Gordon Bates on Hypnotic Gothic Fictions!

Always great to see @janetteleaf.bsky.social in action. Today's talk at the British Theatre and the 1920s conference at Wilton's Music Hall in London, on three stage adaptations of Richard Marsh's The Beetle. Energetic and illuminating as ever!

Looking forward to this one-day conference at Wilton's Music Hall on Friday 11 July: British Theatre of the 1920s. I'm speaking on the critical reception of English drama of the war. Plenty to say about censorship, propaganda and taste in a time of crisis. www.eventbrite.com/e/one-day-co...

Great to be back in Dorchester this weekend for the Thomas Hardy birthday celebrations. Looking forward to this evening's performance of A Beautiful Thread: Thomas Hardy in Words and Music at St Michael's Church, Stinsford. Tickets are still available at www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/EDGFJL...