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Dr Alice Crossley
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Senior Lecturer, English Literature (University of Lincoln).
Ageing in Victorian lit; 19th- century paper ephemera; valentines; material/visual cultures; history of emotions; masculinity studies; Japanese fiction | FRHistS. FHEA.
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Happy National Beagle Day!
Beagle dog standing on a grassy bank of spring wildflowers.
April 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Lincoln's fantastic C19 Research Group PGR Rep, Rebecca Shipp, is organising this year's PGR Symposium, featuring a keynote lecture from Prof. Roger Ebbatson: 'Ever the Road: Hardy and Edward Thomas'. All welcome, free to attend. Weds 7th May, Brayford Campus, MB0312. Full programme to come soon!
Poster text:LSHH 2025 Postgraduate Research Symposium & Public Lecture. Wednesday 7th May, 3pm - 6.30pm, Co-Op Lecture Theatre (MB0312). This showcase provides a platform for LSHH PGR (PhD) students to present papers on their research, and this year the event will also feature a keynote lecture in association with the Nineteenth Century Research Group: Professor Roger Ebbatson (Lancaster University) - 'Ever the Road: Hardy and Edward Thomas'. This event is free and open to the public, and all levels of students are encouraged to attend. We look forward to seeing you there. For any queries, please contact Rebecca Shipp, PGR Lead, at rshipp@lincoln.ac.uk.
April 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Looking forward to giving a short talk today, 'Victorian Valentines: Naughty or Nice?' introducing Kate Clanchy's valentines poetry workshop this afternoon @ 5.30pm, Mansfield College @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social using the
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social John Johnson & Harding collections!
Harding collection, comic valentines, E. 304. Bodleian Library. 'The Professional Valentine Writer'. Handcoloured frontispiece showing cupid sat writing letters John Johnson Collection of Ephemera, Valentines, comic box 2, Bodleian Library. A handcoloured caricature of a woman, each of her features are labelled "false", with a mocking verse beneath John Johnson Collection of Ephemera, Valentines, Album 86.2, Bodleian Library. Engraved, handcoloured valentine. A couple stand at an altar of love, with several cherubs watching. A verse printed beneath. Handwritten printer's notes in the margins.
February 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Tomorrow I am making my TV debut! I've been invited onto Sunday Morning Live (BBC1, 10.30am 9th Feb) to talk a little bit about the history & traditions of Valentine's Day. There will be cards! Flowers! Roman martyrs! Love spoons! And maybe even a quick how-to on Victorian fan flirtation... 💕💌💘
A selection of 6 highly decorative 19th-century valentines cards, all typical of the period, featuring sentimental images of children & flowers.
February 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Kicking off my semester of sabbatical research with a couple of days at the wonderful Centre for Ephemera Studies, University of Reading. Here be trade cards, rewards of merit, greetings & friendship cards, valentines, scrapbooks and more galore! #ephemera #printculture #19thcentury #materialculture
8 British trade cards for hatters & tailors 3 large comic or "vinegar" valentines. Each pictures a caricatures woman printed in red & black, with a short verse or text beneath. Addressed 'To a factory girl', 'To a pert young milliner', and 'The prize peacock!'
February 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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New CFP: Australasian Victorian Studies Association 2025 Conference, ‘Victorian Modernities’, with keynote speaker Professor Sally Shuttleworth. Paper and panel proposals due by 31 March 2025. #victorianstudies #nineteenthcentury
24-25 July 2025, University of Queensland, Australia Keynote Speaker: Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford) "We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time" wrote Thomas Carlyle in 1829, as he urged his contemporaries to discern the "distinctive characters and deeper tendencies" of their age. For many Victorians, the present was an age of profound transformation and self-questioning, marked by rapid industrialisation, urbanisation, and technological innovation. It was an age when global communications and travel became faster and more accessible, thanks to the railways, steamships, and the electric telegraph. Advances in science and technology, from Darwin's theories to electricity's integration into daily life, sparked excitement and anxiety. Victorians began to grapple with the complexities of being 'modern,' a term increasingly invoked in debates about progress, tradition, and history. Sociologists, philosophers, and cultural theorists reflected on how these shifts redefined society, while Victorian fictions probed the social and psychological consequences of such changes. We invite papers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including Literature, History, Music, Art History, and the History of Science, which explore how the Victorians experienced, understood, and represented their modernities. Topics might include but are not limited to: • Victorian print and media culture, avant-garde movements and new genres • Modern transport and networks of communication • Victorians abroad, tourism, and travel writing • Victorian advances in science, technology, and medicine • Commodity culture and consumerism • Imperialism, nationalism, and colonialism • Modern spaces and temporalities, including the Victorian city • Counter-movements, challenges or resistance to modernity • New social types, such as the New Woman, the Dandy, and the Aesthete • Neo-Victorian re-visions of modernity Please send proposals of no more than 300 words, a…
December 18, 2024 at 3:17 AM
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The wonderful @crulph.bsky.social informs me that now I've joined bluesky, I have to pay the obligatory #PetTax and post a photo of my doggo. So here she is, looking like a sulky, sultry heroine reclining in her boudoir. She's ready for her close up now. And snacks. #beagle #dog
A tricolour beagle lying on a sofa
December 13, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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Who's interested in the Victorians, saving money, fun crafts, or gifting meaningful homemade Christmas presents? I wrote something for @uk.theconversation.com 'Seven Victorian paper craft projects that could cut your Christmas consumption' theconversation.com/seven-victor... #19thcentury #Victorians
Seven Victorian paper craft projects that could cut your Christmas consumption
These Victorian paper projects will reduce unnecessary spending, and as gifts they’re much more personal and meaningful.
theconversation.com
December 12, 2024 at 7:19 PM