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Category: Academia

‘For years, Dorian could not free himself’: themes within The Picture of Dorian Gray

[This is a summarized version of a short paper I wrote during my first Undergraduate year at the University of … More

Academia, Book, Culture, Decadence, History, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Undergraduate

Charles Darwin’s beard and George Eliot’s glove: Kathryn Hughes investigates The Curious Case of the Missing Body in the Archive

[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.] … More

Culture, History, Research, Review

A review of The Eyrie

  [This story was published November 2017 in Issue 12 of the Gramarye, the journal of the Sussex Centre for … More

Academia, Art, Book, Culture, Folk Horror, Ghosts, Graphic Novel, History, Journalism, Occult, Review

Can You Help Discover the History of Patient Creativity at St James’ Hospital?

[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 … More

Academia, Archives, Art, Culture, History, Journalism, Lifestyle, Mental Health, Nostalgia, Nursing, Patient Publications, Personal, Portsmouth, Research

Edward King: patient artist

Yesterday, I visited Portsmouth Museum. I grew up in the area and still live nearby, so I’ve spent many an … More

Art, Culture, Exhibition, History, Lifestyle, Medical History, Mental Health, Music, Nursing, Outsider Art, Personal, Portsmouth, Review, Theatre

Blog post: update

Hello hello! It’s been quite a while since I’ve put together an update, so I thought I’d do a wee … More

Academia, Archives, Art, Book, Culture, Feminism, Film, History, Journalism, Lifestyle, Mental Health, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Stamps, Television, Theatre, Video Games

How can new audiences be encouraged to engage with texts from the long 19th century?

Earlier this year, I attended the International Centre for Women Writers From Brontë to Bloomsbury: Realism, Sensation and the New in … More

Academia, Art, Book, Conference, Culture, Film, History, LGBT+, Television

Report: Mystery and Medicine – The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction

Back in June, I was lucky enough to travel to Galway to take part in the Victorian Popular Fiction Association’s … More

Academia, Art, Conference Report, Culture, History, Mental Health, Science, Travel

From Alice in Wonderland to Cadbury’s Cocoa: the Brothers Dalziel’s Victorian wood engraving

During the nineteenth century, technological changes led to an expansion in print culture. Improvements in printing and paper production, in … More

Academia, Archives, Art, BAVS, Book, Culture, History, Journalism, Literary, Nostalgia, Review

‘Lizzie Borden took an axe’: See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt [spoilers]

[This story was published on April 7 on the BAVS Neo-Victorian blog. Read the original story at victorianist.wordpress.com/2017/04/07/neo-victorian-review-lizzie-borden-took-an-axe-see-what-i-have-done-by-sarah-schmidt-spoilers.] Lizzie Borden took … More

Archives, Art, Book, Crime and Punishment, Culture, History, Journalism, Murder, Nostalgia, Review

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