Happy National Beagle Day!

Lincoln's fantastic C19 Research Group PGR Rep, Rebecca Shipp, is organising this year's PGR Symposium, featuring a keynote lecture from Prof. Roger Ebbatson: 'Ever the Road: Hardy and Edward Thomas'. All welcome, free to attend. Weds 7th May, Brayford Campus, MB0312. Full programme to come soon!

Looking forward to giving a short talk today, 'Victorian Valentines: Naughty or Nice?' introducing Kate Clanchy's valentines poetry workshop this afternoon @ 5.30pm, Mansfield College @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social using the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social John Johnson & Harding collections!

Tomorrow I am making my TV debut! I've been invited onto Sunday Morning Live (BBC1, 10.30am 9th Feb) to talk a little bit about the history & traditions of Valentine's Day. There will be cards! Flowers! Roman martyrs! Love spoons! And maybe even a quick how-to on Victorian fan flirtation... 💕💌💘

Kicking off my semester of sabbatical research with a couple of days at the wonderful Centre for Ephemera Studies, University of Reading. Here be trade cards, rewards of merit, greetings & friendship cards, valentines, scrapbooks and more galore! #ephemera #printculture #19thcentury #materialculture

New CFP: Australasian Victorian Studies Association 2025 Conference, ‘Victorian Modernities’, with keynote speaker Professor Sally Shuttleworth. Paper and panel proposals due by 31 March 2025. #victorianstudies #nineteenthcentury

The wonderful @crulph.bsky.social informs me that now I've joined bluesky, I have to pay the obligatory #PetTax and post a photo of my doggo. So here she is, looking like a sulky, sultry heroine reclining in her boudoir. She's ready for her close up now. And snacks. #beagle #dog

Who's interested in the Victorians, saving money, fun crafts, or gifting meaningful homemade Christmas presents? I wrote something for @uk.theconversation.com 'Seven Victorian paper craft projects that could cut your Christmas consumption' theconversation.com/seven-victor... #19thcentury #Victorians