Earlier this year, I attended the International Centre for Women Writers From Brontë to Bloomsbury: Realism, Sensation and the New in Women’s Writing: Reassessing Women’s Writings of the 1900s and 1910s conference in Canterbury. I originally wrote this post as an application for the ICVWW’s travel bursary for the conference, which I was lucky enough to be […]
Back in June, I was lucky enough to travel to Galway to take part in the Victorian Popular Fiction Association’s Mystery and Medicine: The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction study day, which was held at the National University of Ireland, Galway. I wrote a report on one of the panels, ‘Gender and Class’, […]
[This story was published on June 15 in the i. Read the original story at inews.co.uk/essentials/culture/arts/brothers-dalziel-woodpecking-lost-art-victorian-illustration.] William Blake’s visionary engravings, illustrating his famous works, are renowned, influencing how we imagine canonical poems such as “Tiger Tiger”. But after Blake came another Victorian engraving firm, whose artistry is far less well-known, but has been just as potent […]
[This story was published on June 1 in the Brighton and Hove Independent. Read the original story at brightonandhoveindependent.co.uk/news/the-researchers-revealing-the-beauty-of-victorian-wood-engraving-1-7988381.] [Image: Bethan Stevens and George Mind. Picture credit: mine] Two researchers from the University of Sussex have been working to bring the beauty of Victorian illustration to a wider audience. Brighton and Hove based duo Bethan […]
During the nineteenth century, technological changes led to an expansion in print culture. Improvements in printing and paper production, in addition to the advent of road and railway distribution networks, provided the impetus for this radical production of print. Matthew Tauton suggests that ‘the sheer volume and diversity of printed matter was unprecedented [and] these […]
[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, alongside a photograph of Wilfred Owen. Ⓒ Johnny Greig.] The Hydra, a magazine produced by shell shock patients, was pioneering as a mental health care treatment. During the First World War, specialist hospitals were established, intended […]
[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 exactly where this PhD project began, but it certainly grew out my involvement with the Graylingwell Heritage Project. This was a Heritage Lottery Funded community, heritage and arts programme which charted the history of Chichester’s […]
