Death in Ten Minutes – Kitty Marion, Activist, Arsonist, Suffragette Fern Riddell (Great Britain, Hodder and Stoughton: 2018). – ‘Anywhere you could find a woman, you could find a suffragette bomb’ – I’ve been looking forward to Fern Riddell’s Death in Ten Minutes since she announced on Twitter that she was publishing a new book, […]
Conference report: Gaming the Gothic, University of Sheffield, Friday, April 13, 2018 [Reports also contributed by TJ Matthews, who can be found on Twitter at @teej_matthews. Panel reports which have been written by TJ are indicated as such next to the panel title.] Held in the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield, Gaming the […]
[This is a summarized version of a short paper I wrote during my first Undergraduate year at the University of Chichester in Winter, 2011. I found this interesting to look over in terms of thinking about how my writing has developed, and also, coincidentally enough, I taught The Picture of Dorian Gray to undergraduates at […]
[This story was origianally published on November 27 on the Royal Holloway Victorian Studies blog. Read the original story at www.royalholloway.ac.uk/english/research/victorian-studies-research-updates/november-event.aspx.] Did you know that George Eliot claimed to have one hand larger than the other? Or that William Gladstone had a missing finger? Or that, despite being one of the most famous scientists in the […]
[This story was published November 2017 in Issue 12 of the Gramarye, the journal of the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy. Pick up a copy from here: store.chi.ac.uk/product-catalogue/sussex-centre-for-folklore/journals/gramarye-issue-12-e-book.] A mysterious owl insignia, ominous rural landscapes, misty cobbled streets, creaky taverns, and irate sea-dogs baring warnings – recently published graphic novel The Eyrie […]
[This story was published on November 13 by Star & Crescent. Read the original story at starandcrescent.org.uk/2017/11/13/can-you-help-discover-the-history-of-patient-creativity-at-st-james-hospital.] Local writer and historian Emily Turner was inspired by the recent Edward King exhibition at Portsmouth City Museum and is running her own research project exploring the creativity of patients in mental health institutions. She would like to include […]
Yesterday, I visited Portsmouth Museum. I grew up in the area and still live nearby, so I’ve spent many an hour meandering through its galleries. After a particularly dreadful mental health dip, my mother (and fellow history/art enthusiast) shepherded me back down to check out the museum’s current temporary exhibition, which focuses on the work […]
