Historian, esp. 19c press, talk, book history. Author “Googling the Victorians,” “Punch Brotherhood,” etc. Co-founder SHARP, mgr VICTORIA. Fond of Old Time Radio, 60s Top 40, tennis, London. Liberal Texan in self-imposed Midwest exile. FRHistS
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Some slightly discomfiting thoughts about a book much loved by myself and many others: Helene Hanff's 84, Charing Cross Road, whose anniversary will be celebrated at Foyle's in London next month. Thanks to @akennedysmith.bsky.social and her wonderful blog. akennedysmith.substack.com/p/april-lett...
These photos took me back to my own debate days, when all was legal pads and index cards and every year's debate topic was ultimately about race, poverty, or Vietnam: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How @camunicampop.bsky.social researchers are turning static snapshots of Victorian Britain into dynamic life histories.
The team are linking over 200 million census records, revealing how people moved, worked and lived in ways never before possible.
🔎 Read on 👉 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/tracing...
Pope goes full anti-Mordor.
The latest installment of our three-part interview with Linda Hughes is now live! Continuing on from their previous conversation about "the past" foundations of periodical poetry research, Linda and Gillian Walters discuss the "present" state of the field. Read on here: rs4vp.org/periodical-p...
A 2 year restoration project has been completed on a 6.5 metre stained glass window at Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire designed by Pre-Raphaelite artists, William Morris & Edward Burne-Jones. 👇
BBC News - Salisbury Cathedral's stained glass window restored - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mudie's Select Circulating Library lay at the heart of the Victorian publishing system. Karen Wade's site, now at a new URL, makes it possible to explore the library's catalogues as never before, with an index of 22,000 novels by 6000 authors. curatr.ucd.ie/mudies/
#victorian #bookhistory
