BAVS Rosemary Mitchell Prize now open for submissions!
Looking forward to this!
Tuesday 5 th May 6pm- ‘William Morris and Utopia’- Birkbeck Arts Week 2026.
The Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth- Century Studies presents Morris expert Prof. Michael Robertson who will discuss the utopian dimensions of Morris’ life and work. Book your place here:
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Tomorrow Night!
One week to go until the BAVS 2025 Annual Conference @engfac.bsky.social
If you're interested in hosting BAVS 26, 27, or 28 at your institution then we'd love to hear from you! bavs.ac.uk/host-the-bav...
Such an absolute treat to be at @BAVs today on a panel talking about @drvickymills.bsky.social & others short film about the David Parr House, as well as all things nineteenth-century, collaborative labour, processes of making, back pain pills, women as curators of archives & lots more…
Here are a few of the #BirkbeckVictorianists on tour again, this time at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social 2025 Conference in Oxford. With @janetteleaf.bsky.social, @helenaesser.bsky.social and @nonfictioness.bsky.social.
I’m running a session at the Association for Art History 2026 conference in Cambridge on the Victorian art-workman - in association with David Parr House. Call below - deadline 2nd November
forarthistory.org.uk/uncovering-the-victorian-art-workman/
@forarthistory.org.uk @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
#BAVS2025 you were a blast! 5 x Birkbeck papers from @drvickymills.bsky.social @nonfictioness.bsky.social @helenaesser.bsky.social Julia Kuehn and me! Great to hang with @jeremynewton64.bsky.social too! Such fun and sociability with so many great #Victorian scholars! @19birkbeck.bsky.social
Hosted by the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies- see you there!
Session in the morning followed by visit to David Parr house in the afternoon. A neglected figure, the Victorian ‘art-workman’ worked largely in a trade context, often as part of a firm supplying skil...
Tuesday 5 th May 6pm- ‘William Morris and Utopia’- Birkbeck Arts Week 2026.
The Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth- Century Studies presents Morris expert Prof. Michael Robertson who will discuss the utopian dimensions of Morris’ life and work. Book your place here:
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Vicky Mills
Vicky Mills
Vicky Mills
Vicky Mills
Vicky Mills
BAVS
Vicky Mills
The Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies is an interdisciplinary group of academic and student researchers whose work draws on diverse fields.
The BAVS/Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a Second Monograph 2026 is now open! If you published your second scholarly monograph in Victorian studies between 17 February 2025 and 17 February 2026, please do consider submitting! You can find more information here: bavs.ac.uk/book-prize-2/
Zoe Thomas
Dr Janette Leaf
Delighted to announce my new short film made in partnership with Lily Ford, Richard Uttley and the David Parr House!
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social @birkbecklibrary.bsky.social @luisacale.bsky.social
www.bbk.ac.uk/news/birkbec...
Writing Town and Village in Seventeenth Century England
Drop in on one of three panels on who writes the story of town and village.
Coming soon - 7 May Birkkbeck College. Join at 3pm, 5pm, 6pm.
Take a look: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Thanks to funding from Birkbeck’s Research Innovation Fund, supported by alumni donations, the legacy of Victorian art-workman David Parr has been brought to life in The Man Who Painted His House, a s...
Looking forward to Morris and Utopia
#BBKArtsWeek
Join us on 5 May at 6pm
Birkbeck, Clore Auditorium, 27 Torrington Sq., London
Book your free place here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
@drvickymills.bsky.social
