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simultaneously horrific and amazing www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

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Wonderful findings in Punch's Pocket Book today: a child's multicoloured collage and a student's sketches (1879 & 1880). Also found: a coded message!

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Six years ago our MP of the Month for February was Charles Tilston Bright, a pioneering telegraph engineer, who laid the first Atlantic telegraph cable. He was Liberal MP for Greenwich. Find out more about him in our blog: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2019/02/20/m...

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Going through some absolutely wonderful boxes of preparatory sketches for Punch by Leech, Tenniel, Furniss and many others. Seeing art in the making is just fantastic (and very moving). #BritishLibrary #ArchivesandManuscripts #PunchArchive

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A Victorian take on gender terminology from Punch's Pocket Book for 1854.

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Lewis Carroll collection given to his Oxford college in surprise US donation

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How I think I look when teaching / How I actually look

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🚀📈 Making Victorian visual culture searchable: Introducing an open-access and AI-powered dataset of 72,000 illustrations from the Illustrated London News (1842-1890). (w. Bethany Warner, @pfyfe.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social) openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

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The great historian of the early 19th-c. comic press, Brian Maidment, died last week. He was as deeply appreciated for his personal kindness as for his brilliant work, and I treasured his friendship. @pritijoshi.bsky.social has written a lovely tribute: rs4vp.org/in-memoriam-... #C19

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Ne ratez pas l'expo consacrée aux 600 ans d’histoire de notre @universite-caen.bsky.social avec des documents d’archives, des plans de Caen (1575-2025) et de nombreuses photos. Un projet labellisé Millénaire Caen 2025 📅Du 04 au 26/02 📍 Église du Vieux St Sauveur caen.fr/evenement/hi...

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Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

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📣📣📣 #AgregAnglais2025 #VeilleESR « Mouvements protestataires en Grande-Bretagne 1811-1914. Historiographie et debats ». Le dernier numéro de la RFCB est en ligne! journals.openedition.org/rfcb/12898 @saesfrance.bsky.social @crew-ur4399-usn.bsky.social @alexsippel.bsky.social

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RIP David Lynch. Dang. This is devastating.

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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

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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

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🤓 Rdv le 31 janvier prochain à Nanterre pour la JE spéciale agrég « Mouvements protestataires, contestations politiques et luttes sociales en Grande-Bretagne (1811-1914) » ! Infos et abstracts ➡️ oabrit.hypotheses.org/category/col... et sur le site du CREA crea.parisnanterre.fr/colloques-et...

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Dear colleagues and friends, ERIBIA (Équipe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur la Grande-Bretagne, l'Irlande et l'Amérique du Nord) wishes you all a successful and fulfilling New Year 2025. (All pictures were taken on campus last winter)

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Good news for the 19th c. press scholarly community: digital versions of several trade union periodicals - including The Printer and the Typographical Circular - are available through the Modern Records Centre's platforms.

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Happy New Year's Eve 🎆🎇🎆🎇⁠ ⁠ This woodblock print showing fireworks at Ryōgoku bridge was created by Utagawa Hiroshige I in 1858. It features as part of the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo series.⁠

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Insane waiting lines - un monde fou - for the Figures du fou exhibition at the museelouvre.bsky.social, yesterday. N'empêche: those of us who did not lose limbs to frostbite while waiting finally discovered a somptuous display of folie furieuse, from the Middle Ages to the early 19th century.

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Have just booked myself a nice reading week at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social in February. Will be looking at the BL's amazing Punch Archive for a forthcoming piece on Punch's Pocket Books. Well chuffed and all.

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The beautiful Pictorial Times is this week's #MastheadMonday. Founded in 1843 by Henry Vizetelly & Andrew Spottiswoode, in reaction to the success of the ILN, in 1848 it merged with the Lady's Newspaper. Digitised by the BL & free-to-view here: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/picto...

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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Joseph Cooper: Went surfing for an hour on Miller's Planet.

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I am learning a lot from - and really enjoying [email protected]'s Chartist #AdventCalendar thread. Also very useful to our students of Agrégation d'Anglais 2025.

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The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals' generous travel-and-research grant, the Curran Fellowship, is accepting proposals (closing date Jan 15). Take a break from grading & envision the research possibilities! Details: rs4vp.org/awards/curra...

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Excellente pioche pour mon premier @parisfantastic.bsky.social de l'année: Strange Darling, un polar troussé en six chapitres, où Willa Fitzgerald et Kyle Gallner crèvent l'écran (et deux ou trois autres trucs). C'est à la fois drôle et terrifiant, haletant et mesuré et surtout, très très bien joué.

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Thrilled to learn that my paper proposal for the 2025 conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals has been accepted! I'm going to Chicago next July! <3 <3

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Post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article "Within the trade press, the celebration of facts and useful knowledge turned out to encourage artistic self-expression."

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John Singer Sargent showed his talent early. Here are watercolour sketches he made during his family’s trip to Switzerland, when he was only 14

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Great to see a plaque to the Northern Star in Leeds at last

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Equally delighted to confirm that @digivictorian.bsky.social's keynote is also available for viewing on the conference website: we-are-amused.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

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Delighted to confirm that, following our international conference on the theme "We are Amused. Victorian Humour and the Digital," Professor @jimmussell.bsky.social's keynote speech is now available for viewing on the event website: we-are-amused.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

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Somehow, this reminds me of a Klimt painting.

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Rest well, brilliant woman. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/b...

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Excellent news indeed, in particular for #Agrégation2025 students of C19 #ProtestMovements in Britain.

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