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Now on the BARS Blog: New Book Series: The New Nineteenth Century See the details here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5831 "The New Nineteenth Century tracks the ever-evolving dynamism of long nineteenth-century studies by publishing exciting innovations and diverse voices in our field." Please share!

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Relative numbers of novels in the catalogue of Mudie's Circulating Library for 1903; a reminder of just how many titles late Victorian and Edwardian popular novelists - male as well as female - could rack up. Several were producing 5 or 6 a year. Productivity in authorship isn't what it used to be.

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One project is on British natural history film-making in the 1st half of the 20th century. The other is 'Connecting Suffragettes, Technology & Society', using the papers of Dame Caroline Haslett. Both are AHRC-funded.

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Whatever happened to 'the motor-boat honeymoon'?

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Yes, she was new to me too. But she wrote over 40 novels plus short stories, 1877-97, and was especially popular in the US. Apparently in the Rhoda Broughton mode, set in Ireland with 'irresponsible''wild girl' heroines (who still managed to be strictly moral, and co-exist easily with Mrs Grundy).

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'Most selling' US and UK authors as judged by an American newspaper syndicate in 1902. Interesting to see Kipling ahead of Stevenson, Haggard and Conan Doyle. W Clark Russell, a purveyor of naval yarns for boys also apparently 'out of his league'. Hardy flying the flag for the canonical novelists.

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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

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There is still time to register for this fabulous hybrid conference, "Cultures of Correspondence," which starts tomorrow, February 14. Looks like a lot on offer here for anybody who works with 19th-c. letters. library.web.baylor.edu/culturesofco... #C19th

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Do submit a proposal!

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Let's be clear. It's almost impossible not to focus anger on the university leaderships wielding the axe. But it's not that UK governments wont stop this, it's that they have actively and deliberately engineered it. University leaders have been too supine, but it is a governmental act of self-harm.

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Just recieved proofs of my contribution to Koenraad Claes and Lizzie Ludlow's interesting collection The Nineteenth-Century Present manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526172365/ Excited to see it typeset. But also rather ashamed of some execrably written sentences: a bit of polishing much needed!

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Review: Darwinism's Generations academic.oup.com/book/58805. For Finnegan, the book's 'critical and nuanced but decisive and consequential conclusions point to the need to seriously consider ‘generational churn’ as a (possible) major influence on the communication and reception of scientific ideas'.

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I'm delighted to be discussing these topics in such wonderful thought-provoking company! Great to hear others can join from afar...

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So we put Darwinism's Generations academic.oup.com/book/58805 to the 'page 99' test. Turns out that it works pretty well!

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And one final reminder that we're holding a hybrid book launch for Darwinism's Generations on this coming Wed, 5pm GMT; readings, in-conversation with Greg Radick, and then open discussion.

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That's an interesting set of bookfellows! If it were me, I'd keep Timothy Snyder for second, and go straight for the Darwinism's Generations. And, perhaps to my shame, I might skip Social Inquiry and Bayesian Inference altogether.

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More insights into boys' reading in the 1890s, Haggard, Stevenson, conan Doyle to the fore. Interesting to see Mrs Henry Wood so far up the lists. From school school library issues discussed by Andrew Lang in Longman's magazine.

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So very sorry to hear this news. Brian was a quite wonderful person. We've collaborated often over the years, but for me he will always be captured by the long, encouraging letter, with mimeographed article enclosed, he sent me as a young pgr who had asked for help in locating one of his pieces.

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And a new open access book on Mudie's and the novel to go with it!

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A very useful resource for anyone interested in Victorian literary culture. Track the stock of Mudie's novels across the period.

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So pleased my article on geo-coding addresses of 121 million + people in British censuses 1851-1911 is now out with Historical Methods! #openaccess - map any census info (ages, occupations, birthplaces etc) by address - link census to other spatial datasets Get the code and data 👇

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Given the default price of academic monographs and the costs of OA, this is a great opportunity if you fit the demographic.

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Just got back from @no6cinema.bsky.social and found some delightful post waiting for me. It lives!

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Very much enjoying Sarah Harkness's Literature for the People. Incredible to think of the roster of authors that Macmillans published, including Huxley, Kingsley, Lewis Carroll, J.R. Green, Henry Sidgwick, E.A. Freeman. And all kinds of fascinating insights into aspects of Victorian culture.

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Good news! The Co-op archives have so much potential for modern British social historians

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Book launch announcement. Do join us on 5th Feb 5pm GMT, for a reading, Q&A and general discussion of Darwinism's Generations, academic.oup.com/book/58805 This is a hybrid in-person and online event.

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I've started a starter pack for academics and organizations focused on the #19th century! I'm sure I have missed many, many people (I was trying to get this started quickly) — comment below if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/6ZkJ592

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A useful reminder...

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CFP: Material Scotland, Stana Nenadic Memorial Conference, 15-16 May 2025, University of Edinburgh. Celebrating the career of Prof Nenadic (1954-2024) papers invited on Scottish material & visual cultural history. Deadline for proposals 31 Jan. ECR and postgrad particularly welcome. Please share!

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Always doubly tantalising when this sort of item appears. What will digital searching unlock in its contents; and what about all the other similar materials yet unknown in family collections?

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A few months ago I read @philipncohen.com's Citizen Scholar in proof. It's now available in print. To restore public trust in expertise, professors can’t just profess—they need to engage. Citizen Scholar explores how contemporary academics can do this, and why they might choose to.

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A fascinating piece. It certainly prompts me to search out studies I have not previously read. But more importantly it also implicitly raises questions about disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity that need further attention as the crisis of the humanities deepens.

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For those of you who missed the announcement before Christmas, just to let you know of the publication of Darwinism's Generations. Available from OUP, and for those with a subscription via Oxford Academic online. It has implications across Victorian history and culture. academic.oup.com/book/58805

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Still room on my Victorian Studies list. If you would like me to add you, just let me know.

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Today’s poem is called ‘The Bad Salad of William Archibald Spooner’.

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Agreed, this is a fantastic resource for anyone wanting to use Dickens illustrations for publication.

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Had a Curran back in the day. I can't tell you how brilliant it was to have a small sum of money in hand to fund research trips, without the enormous bureaucracy of justification and proof of expenses. Funded my first visit to the new National Library of Scotland manuscript reading room too! Apply!

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True for most jobs (although where they are structured with early career teaching relief etc, carefully designed restrictions can make sense). Not so true for grants, whre the desire to support particular groups (whether pre-Phd, recently-post Phd, or even unaffiliated) can be really beneficial.

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I managed to fix the issue with the contact links on my website! If you or someone you know needs a writer, editor, or expert on 19thC British political history you can now easily get in touch. drvicclarke.co.uk/hire-me!

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