Christina de Bellaigue
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Historian of 19thC GB & France - social mobility, childhood, gender, women, education; She/Her. Daughter of an immigrant, married to grandson of immigrants. No longer a member of any political party.
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David Hopkin at Long 19thC this week
This week - join us to hear our own David Hopkin talk about Flemish lace, craft, gender and religion. 11.10am, Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad on Weds November 5th.
This week - join us to hear our own David Hopkin talk about Flemish lace, craft, gender and religion. 11.10am, Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad on Weds November 5th.
This Wednesday 29 Oct, join us 11.10 in the Kloppenburg room at Exeter Cohen Quad to hear Tricia Zakresi on ‘The Art of Fiction: Victorian women writers and the decorative arts’. All welcome, and join us for reasonably priced informal lunch afterwards
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#LongCovid ppl - I got a Pfizer booster on Sat & feeling pretty ropey for the first time in a while - insomnia, aches, fatigue, feverish, tight chest ‘thrumming body’ - trusting its just a brief reaction but freaking out slightly, any anecdata on other ppls reactions?
This Wednesday 29 Oct, join us 11.10 in the Kloppenburg room at Exeter Cohen Quad to hear Tricia Zakresi on ‘The Art of Fiction: Victorian women writers and the decorative arts’. All welcome, and join us for reasonably priced informal lunch afterwards
This Wednesday 29 Oct, join us 11.10 in the Kloppenburg room at Exeter Cohen Quad to hear Tricia Zakresi on ‘The Art of Fiction: Victorian women writers and the decorative arts’. All welcome, and join us for reasonably priced informal lunch afterwards
This week - come to a new part of William Morris' old college to hear Octavia Young on "Art Workers: The Labourers and Artisans of Morris & Co" - our first seminar of the year on Wednesday 15/10, 11.10am, in the Ruskin Room at Exeter Cohen Quad on Walton St
![Seminar programme for the term:
Week 1, 15 Oct Octavia Young (University of Cambridge) [note Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad]
Art Workers: The Labourers and Artisans of Morris & Co
Week 3, 29 Oct Tricia Zakreski (University of Exeter)
The Art of Fiction: Victorian Women Writers and the Decorative Arts
Week 4, 5 Nov David Hopkin (Hertford)
Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion
Week 5, 12 Nov Melissa Percival (University of Exeter)
Toile de Jouy – French Printed Textiles in Cultural Memory
Week 6, 19 Nov Eric Storm (University of Leiden) [note Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad]
Discussants: Faisal Devji (Balliol) and Abigail Green (Brasenose).
Book Talk: Nationalism: A World History
Week 7, 26 Nov Matilda Eriksson (Lady Margaret Hall)
Peasant, Painter, Patron: Anders Zorn and the Collecting of Vernacular Craft as Personal and National Heritage
Week 8, 3 Dec Luisa Levi d’Ancona Modena (Oxford)
Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dqyfd5ifnlnmznfwzgst3okz/bafkreihfcypwu74cblp2kbbcp7szh6c2gx5khdeus5ol2sm6g2fx2rn5pq@jpeg)
This week - come to a new part of William Morris' old college to hear Octavia Young on "Art Workers: The Labourers and Artisans of Morris & Co" - our first seminar of the year on Wednesday 15/10, 11.10am, in the Ruskin Room at Exeter Cohen Quad on Walton St
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Hello! Looking forward to an exciting term of the Oxford Long 19thC Seminar, on the theme of Arts, Crafts & the People: the Social and the Aesthetic in the Long Nineteenth Century. We meet on Wednesdays 11.10-12.30 at Exeter Cohen Quad on Walton St, all welcome.
We're delighted to share the programme for this term's History of Childhood seminar series. We can't wait to hear from all our fantastic speakers. Join us for our first session on Monday 20 October, at Magdalen College Oxford or online via Teams at 11am when we'll be thinking all about 'play'!
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Helen Lovatt
@helenlovatt.bsky.social
· Sep 17
“Cataclysmically bad”
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
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This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
🗃️
ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk
Seven years today since I got a personal favourite letter published in the Metro.
This new study shows: in Germany, it has become much harder for children to earn more than their parents, now about as hard as in the US: "parental income has become much more important for educational outcomes of children"
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