James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Dr Laura Eastlake
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Volcanic eruptions can create stunning lightning storms. Learn how ash particles generate electric charges high in the atmosphere.
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds?
Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
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Some vintage #Caturday
On train to Edinburgh and turn a page to find: 1870s jokes about train crashes?!
Racing into the weekend like…a Victorian roller skater?! Punch (15 Jan 1876) #c19th
Sun’s out, #museumbums out!
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One for the autobiography readers...and the Dracula fans 🪰
'Zoophagy', New Statesman and Nation (Apr 6, 1957): 449.
Departmental Lecturer in English Literature, University of Oxford (specialism in eighteenth and nineteenth-century) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU210/d...
Crikey. Sherlock Holmes’s official dating profile is a real mixed bag! #c19th
From ‘A Study in Scarlet’, ch.2 (1887)
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Recently I’ve been reading about the life and work of Charles Burton Barber (1845-1894), artist and member of the Royal Academy who specialised in paintings of family pets. Barber even painted seve…
Yay! Congrats to Janet Voight at the Field who has described a new species of deep-sea octopus from the Galapagos! Microeledone galapagensis! #molluscmonday www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/...
This is glorious.
(From the British Museum, Midsummer 1939.)
