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Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · 1d

For Wednesday, what better than Helen Wilson's handsome and most enjoyable book on the Pinwell sisters and their brilliant woodcarving career victorianweb.org/sculpture/pi...

Cover of Helen Wilson'sbook on "The Remarkable Pinwell Sisters"

Choir stall bench end carved by the Pinwill Sisters at Plympton St. Mary, Plymouth, Devon, 1898. Photograph © Helen Wilson.

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 2d

Great news for the cause of open access scholarship!

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Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · 2d

#Tiles on Tuesday—wonderful ceramic panels and rondels on Thomas Goode's chinaware shop in S. Street, Mayfair, Japonisme in full swing! victorianweb.org/art/architec...

Birds rising and swooping among plants, in rondels

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Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · 3d

I am absolutely thrilled that Karin Meredith’s dissertation on c19th beauty culture in advertisements has been hightly commended by @womenshistnet.bsky.social. It was perhaps the best diss I’ve ever had the delight to supervise! I’m so proud of her &with @ljmuhistory.bsky.social send hearty congrats

Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 4d

Highly Commended: Karin Meredith

"Marketing Beauty, Maintaining Power: Gender, Class and Advertising in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain"

An insightful exploration of the beauty industry through periodicals, touching on whiteness, femininity, and moral discourse.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 3d

Did you know that BHL has #FullTextSearch? You can search for scientific names, places, etc, but you can also find all the things that "Alfred Russell Wallace" found "delicious" in his travels (search for "delicious" and then narrow search results by author). #ILoveBHL www.biodiversitylibrary.org 🧪

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Martin Hewitt @vicmanch.bsky.social · 3d

'fresh and fascinating ...astonishingly detailed ...I have not read any other such study that ranges so widely in Britain, is so authoritative, and so clearly expressed ...an exciting new way to think about the century', Janet Browne on Darwinism's Generations. I'd say I'm pretty chuffed with that!

Age does count - Metascience

Metascience -

link.springer.com

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Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · 3d

At Eastbourne #OnThisDay 1892, Lewis Carroll recorded in his journal just four words: "Death of Alfred #Tennyson." It was a personal blow to him as well as a national event, as Ray Dyer explains: victorianweb.org/authors/carr...
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Pencil portrait of Tennyson in later life, by Helen Allingham

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Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · 4d

Unveiled #Onthisday 1809, in #Birmingham's Bull Ring, the earliest memorial to Nelson, sculptor Richard Wesmacott's earliest public work, & Birmingham's first public statue (photo, © Dr Craig Thornber—many thanks!) victorianweb.org/sculpture/we...
#sculpture

Heroic, youthful-looking Nelson standing in front of a boat's prow, seen here against a deep blue sky.

Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · 6d

Another new & very informative book review, this time by Sara Murphy of Helena Esser's "Ouida". One intriguing subject is the the way Ouida "challenges […] and subverts binary Victorian notions of gender." www.victorianweb.org/authors/ouid... #gendermatters

Cover of the book, with a Victorian gentleman handing a lady down some steps...

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The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social · 10d

Our autumn online lecture series celebrates the remarkable recent flourishing of publications on Victorian architecture and related topics. All the speakers are the authors of new books, either just published or forthcoming.

Book here: bit.ly/4pOE2jD

#booktalks

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Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · 9d

Oh! "one of the finest illustrated books of the Victorian era" and "a landmark in British publishing"! Women illustrators too. Very enticing!

Philip Pankhurst @oldpanks.bsky.social · 9d

Delighted to receive my complimentary copy of The Story of the Herefordshire Pomona, surely the most beautiful publication ever produced about the county and its orchards. A exquisite tribute by Bill Laws, published by Logaston Press. Many thanks, the perfect antidote to a day of hateful politics...

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Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · 10d

"Haycocks and Sun" by Norman Garstin (1847–1926), c. 1886, capturing the glow of late summer nights--or, if a day like the one just over here, autumn nights! Garstin was one of the wonderful Newlyn School of artists. victorianweb.org/painting/gar...

Small haycocks at intervals across a field, with the mellow sun going down behind the trees at the edge

Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · 11d

"Going to Evening Church," Samuel Palmer, 1874. Palmer saw churches as "the most charming points of an English landscape—gems of sentiment for which our woods & green slopes, & hedgerow elms, are the lovely and appropriate setting.” #Sunday #painting victorianweb.org/painting/pal...

Sunset streaks the sky as people wend their way to a church with a steeple visible above them on a wooded hillside near the coast.

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Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · 12d

"A Cheap Theatre — Saturday Night"--illustration for Dickens's "The Uncommercial Traveller"--all human life is here, including a mother feeding her baby, not much interested in the show! victorianweb.org/art/illustra...

Rows of people in the audience, some raptly watching, others chatting, the mother looking lovingly down at her baby, a rogue slouching at the end--lots of life!

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Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you! Had never thought of this way of appreciating them!

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Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you! Will make sure these are listed in appropriate bibliographies--such a boon, especially for independent scholars without access to academic libraries.

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UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social · 14d

All of our books are open access- happy to suggest some other cracking titles on this era, including this one... uclpress.co.uk/book/victori...

Victorian Alchemy

Victorian Alchemy explores nineteenth-century conceptions of ancient Egypt as this extant civilisation was being ‘rediscovered’ in the modern world. With its material remnants somewhat paradoxically s...

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Victorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social · 13d

Born #OnThisDay 1819 Edward William Watkin, Liberal MP for Great Yarmouth 1857, Stockport 1864-8 (& later MP for Hythe). He was a major railway entrepreneur & made a failed attempt to extend his network to France with a Channel Tunnel.

Head and shoulders portrait of a man. He is balding and has a white beard. He is dressed in black, but has a red handkerchief peeping out of his jacket pocket.

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Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · 14d

A lovely window! Which church? Yes, it's been such a beautiful day!

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Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · 14d

Delighted to learn that this book is open access and can be downloaded here: uclpress.co.uk/book/million... (in case you didn't see this info. elsewhere). John Brett's lovely "Sunset Off Lundy Island" (1872) was just one of Morrison's many acquisitions victorianweb.org/painting/bre...

Cover of Caroline Daker's ed. of essays on Alfred Morrison and his colllections

Lundy Island in the distance, sunset behind, foam-tipped sea with tiny sailboat in the foreground.

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Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · 15d

You know, we have a great collection of essays, funded by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, on pregnancy & childbirth in the Age of Victoria. Take a look! This is an illustration for Sarah Bull's essay, "Sexual Knowledge in Print Culture" victorianweb.org/science/mate...

Front cover of Richard Burton's translation the Kama Sutra, 1883.

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 16d

The journal Victorians (formerly The Victorian Newsletter) is out, with new format and new editor Kristen Pond, featuring a forum on amateurism and professionalization in science with intro by @aktange.bsky.social. Some terrific work here, and all is Open Access. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55573 #C19th

Project MUSE - Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature-Number 147, Summer 2025

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Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · 18d

"The Last Muster, #Sunday at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea," by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, R. A. (1849-1914)
1875 (courtesy of the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight). A movingly entitled, picturesque scene of the aged pensioners in chapel, victorianweb.org/painting/her... #painting

Rows of Chelsea Pensioners in their red jackets (but bareheaded), gathered in the chapel, with flags high up along the walls but prayer-books in their hands.

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Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · 19d

#Goodnight (in UK!) with this four-poster bed, designed in 1900, now in the reconstructed Mackintosh House at the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow. Clean lines, Art Nouveau ornaments, not sure how comfy! victorianweb.org/art/design/m...

4-poster double white bed with white curtains and rose motifs on the top boards. Apart from the roses, a wee bit clinical?

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Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · 20d

Do keep an eye on our listings: victorianweb.org/misc/confere...! The 1st part of Visual Theology's conference, looking at cross-currents between the visual arts & theological ideas of medieval times, the 19c & today, is on Oct 24-26, in NY & online! See visualtheology.org.uk/beauty-and-f...

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