[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
Category: Academia
Welcome to Dottyville: Shell shock and The Hydra
[This story was published on March 30 on the History Today website. Read the original story at historytoday.com/emily-turner/welcome-dottyville.] [Image: Creative healing: The Hydra, … More
Review: Poison Panic, by Helen Barrell
[This story was published on March 10 in the BAVS Newsletter. Read the original article in the BAVS Newsletter 17.1 … More
Report: Nineteenth-Century Matters, Public Engagement Training Day
[This story was published on February 6 on the BAVS Neo-Victorian blog. Read the original story at victorianist.wordpress.com/2017/02/06/report-nineteenth-century-matters.] On January 28, Chawton … More
The Living and the Dead: A Victorian Language of Flowers, ‘invisible’ lesbians and the New Woman
[This story was published on December 30 on the BAVS Neo-Victorian blog. Read the original story at victorianist.wordpress.com/2016/12/30/neo-victorian-review-the-living-and-the-dead-a-victorian-language-of-flowers-invisible-lesbians-and-the-new-woman] It is autumn, … More
Archives of Lost Voices: Patient Publications in Hospitals
[This story was published on December 12 on The Still Point blog. Read the original story at thestillpointjournal.com/2016/12/12/archives-of-lost-voices.] It’s difficult to pinpoint … More
Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome
[Image: Nameless and Friendless, 1857, Emily Mary Osborn] Hello, friends, Romans, and lovers of the creative, historical, queer, and macabre! … More
The Lost Histories of Patient Publications
Contact me here Calling all historians, Victorianists, creative types, ex or current service users, mental health staff, occupational therapists and … More
Darwin, Photography, and the ‘Screaming Victorians’ of Anthony Rhys’s Visual Biofiction
Or; Whose Biofiction is it Anyway? [This story was published on September 23 on the BAVS Neo-Victorian blog. Read the original … More
A very little history of mermaid hoaxes
For lovers of eccentric history, folklore, hoaxes and taxidermy, the heritage of fake mermaids is fascinating. As mythological creatures, mermaids … More