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A little treat on my day off, because I deserve it 💚
Snap of a book titled Female Printmakers, printsellers, and print publishers in the eighteenth century: the imprint of women c. 1700-1830
November 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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And somewhere there, possibly just at the extreme left of the painting, was the celebrated #TurkishBaths, at what was then number 11, Leinster Street, where James Joyce's Leopold Bloom had a warm bath, not having time for a Turkish one. www.victorianturkishbath.org/_3TOPICS/Ato... 🗃️ #C19th
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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#OnThisDay 1867 Lily Maxwell cast her vote at a by-election in Manchester, despite women being excluded from the parliamentary franchise. Find out more here: historyofparliament.com/2025/03/14/l...
‘A woman actually voted!’: Lily Maxwell and the Manchester by-election of November 1867 - The History of Parliament
More than half a century before the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918, Lily Maxwell, a Manchester shopkeeper, cast a parliamentary vote. Dr Kathryn Rix
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November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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We have a fascinating series on women journalists in the Lady's Pictorial, contributed by Philip Jackson. The second series was published #OnThisDay 1893, and featured a portrait of the prolific journalist, and novelist too, Eliza Lynn-Linton victorianweb.org/periodicals/...
Portrait of Queen Victoria on the front cover of an issue. Eliza Lynn-Linton, quite elderly, sitting in an elaborately carved high-backed chair, with a heavy curtain on one side and the leaves of tall house-plants on the other--very Victorian!
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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On the Origin of Species: landmark work published #OTD 1859 by Charles Darwin, influential English naturalist, geologist and pioneer of evolutionary theory.
Portrait 1830’s by George Richmond
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November 24, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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📽️ The recording from our widely popular #RSVPDigiEvent "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal" is now live. We had a record-breaking 101 registrants for this panel! Since we did not quite hit that number in attendance, we know many will be interested to watch/re-watch: youtu.be/sP5Y1iicKJ0
How to Get Published in Academic Journal
YouTube video by Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
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November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Here's a very fine steeple for Sunday -- St Margaret's, "The Marble Church," Bodelwyddan, Clwyd, in Wales (architect, John Gibson). And here's St Margaret herself, in one of the windows. #stainedglass victorianweb.org/victorian/ar...
(photo: Colin Price)
White church with tal slender spire, standing out against a blue sky with swirls of cloud, between banks of foliage, a small churchyard at the east. St Margaret treading down the serpent but looking very demure and calm, with a blue and red cloak over a green garment, the whole lancet bordered in a bright blue with floral motifs.
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Our #art historian Dennis T. Lanigan is working on Walter Crane, and here's Crane's #painting of his wife soon after their marriage, with the #cat completing the picture of domestic bliss! (Credit: Leeds Art Gallery) victorianweb.org/painting/cra...
Young woman in red, leaning on a blue-and-white tiled fireplace against a tapestry background, reading a book, with a cat sitting on the rug beside her
November 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Chilly, chilly, chilly! Though not quite as chilly as Atkinson Grimshaw's haunting figure in this mysteriously empty winter landscape! victorianweb.org/painting/gri... #painting
A lone woman in a shawl carrying a basket in a white hilly landscape, with the sky glowing palely yellow ahead, casting the same light on a hill close by. It is a path though... footmarks can be seen along the route she follows. Colour is all, here.
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Do read our recent #review of Denae Dyck's "Biblical Wisdom and the Victorian Literary Imagination"! It's by Taten Shirley, & here's William #Blake's wonderful "When the morning stars sang together" on the cover, a brilliant choice victorianweb.org/religion/rev...
God revealing his powers to Job, with scenes of the creation to be marvelled at: a striking book cover.
November 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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More close looking at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery's
Pre-Raphaelite works, this time thinking about Alexander Munro's Paolo and Francesca serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/paolo-and-...
@preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social #preraphaelite #art #sculpture #dante #nineteenthcentury #birmingham
Paolo and Francesca by Alexander Munro
Preserving a moment in marble
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November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
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November 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Award: Sally Mitchell Prize (Submission Deadline: 12/1/25) navsa.wildapricot.org/News/13564135
NAVSA - Award: Sally Mitchell Prize (Submission Deadline: 12/1/25)
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November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Wonderful #Tiles in the chancel at St Oswald's, Ashbourne, part of the refitting by George Gilbert Scott. Such intricate patterns, & a fascinating study of them by Rita Wood! victorianweb.org/art/design/c...
Rows of crisscrossing slanted squares separating intricate patterns of golden flowers and foliage in studded circular frames.
November 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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The first council of Queen Victoria 1838, by Sir David Wilkie, Scottish artist born #OTD 1785; known for Scottish genre scenes loved by Sir Walter Scott, he was Principal Painter in Ordinary to William IV & Queen Victoria, and first to sketch her likeness as reigning monarch.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Died #OnThisDay in 1877, aged 42, Hon. Augustus Anson, awarded the Victoria Cross in 1857 while serving with the army in India. He was Liberal MP for Lichfield 1859-68, and Bewdley 1869-74, and spoke on military matters in the Commons.
A black and white photograph of a man wearing a three piece suit. He has a long dark beard and dark hair. He is looking down at a book. He has a top hat resting on his lap.
November 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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North East England: we need nominations for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2026! Tell us about your local threatened, dilapidated, neglected Victorian and Edwardian buildings built between 1837 & 1914. Email us the info we need, see here: bit.ly/4hybqrc
On our list this year, Gibon St Baths 🧵
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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"Old Edinburgh at Night" by Arthur Melville, a watercolour of 1883 -- so atmospheric, people glimpsed among the tall buildings with just one street lamp and some lights in windows, yet still an air of life -- almost phantasmagoric victorianweb.org/painting/mel... #painting #Scotland
Dark but people in Victorian dress just discernible, with bright lights making a big contrast with the shadows
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Good morning on a #Sunday, with a view of the Newcastle Pew at St George's Church, Esher, where a young Princess used to sit when visiting her uncle Leopold in Surrey victorianweb.org/art/architec... (it has a little fireplace, note the chimney pots!))
Elegantly neoclassical gallery box-pew looking down on the nave from the liturgical south (Pevsner called the church "endearing," and it is). Church exterior with special side entrance. The royal worshippers could go straight to the pew without intermingling!
November 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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📖 Colby Book Prize nominations open today! We're accepting nominations from now until 31 Jan. 2026. The Colby Prize recognizes original book-length scholarship published in 2025 that most advances our understanding of the long #19thC British press. More info: buff.ly/LIi76WJ
The Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize – RSVP
The Colby Book Prize was endowed in 2006 in memory of Robert Colby by his wife, Vineta Colby, distinguished scholars and long-time members of RSVP. In 2011, following Vineta’s death, the Board of…
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November 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Unveiled #OnThisDay 1873, William Brodie's little statue of Greyfriars Bobby on this memorial drinking fountain in Edinburgh (this was the much-loved faithful pet that waited by his master's grave for the rest of his life) victorianweb.org/sculpture/br...
A little terrier sitting atop a cylindrical column with the basin of a drinking fountain around it, just on the pavement.
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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A Punch cartoon by John Tenniel #OnThisDay 1880: "Old King Cooal and the Fog Demon" — and the battle against pollution continues! victorianweb.org/periodicals/...
Old King Coal merrily smoking his pipe, the smoke from which spreads out over the city like a grotesque flying demon
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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"#November #Sunset on the Thames, Kew," by Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944). OK, it was painted in 1919, but never mind: he started off in the Victorian period! This was one of his favourite places... victorianweb.org/painting/pis...
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THe Thames winding by a wintry tree and shrubs, some poplars on the other bank, all bathed in a pink light stippled with a sort of lilac-blue.
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.

To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.

Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
A person reaches for an item from a shelf of books.
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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As part of the 1st London General Hospital during WWI, our Top Ten Endangered Building in Lambeth - the Victorian Cormont Road Board School - was the first posting of writer and campaigner Vera Brittain when she served as a VAD.
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM