Nineteenth Century Historian- circuses, animals and domestic spaces|| 🥀 Vampire, Romantics and Oscar Wilde Enthusiast || Royal Holloway & Oxford
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Char Bookham retweeted
9 May 2024
🎉Huge congratulations to @AlicePurk, @rachel_delman and their team whose Heritage Pathways programme received the Support for Students Award at yesterday's Vice-Chancellor’s Awards.
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Char Bookham retweeted
3 Feb 2024
I bought an 1896 annual of The Strand Magazine from an antique bookshop today. Mostly because I saw this gentleman and fell in love with him instantly. Who said the Victorians weren't amused?!
ALT A black and white Victorian photograph of a smiling gentleman. He is wearing a suit and tie, and he is holding a large folded piece of card over his head in the shape of a bonnet. The caption beneath the photograph reads: "Fig. 25. - Dutch Girl's Bonnet."
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Char Bookham retweeted
1 Feb 2024
We're celebrating the start of LGBTQ History Month with our #OnlineArtExchange pick!
Radclyffe Hall was a British author and queer icon. Her novels gave visibility to the LGBTQ community in the early 20th century.
#LGBTQplusHM @artukdotorg
🎨by Charles Buchel, 1918 © NPG
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Char Bookham retweeted
1 Feb 2024
Portrait of Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland (1904) by John Singer Sargent (American artist, lived 1856–1925). A green, #floral dress, with laurel leaf tiara on her red hair, with a low-cut neckline. The Duchess emerging from the natural world behind. #FashionHistory
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Char Bookham retweeted
1 Feb 2024
'London Visitors' (1874) by James Tissot
(Toledo Museum of Art)
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5 Jan 2024
Me at the start of 2023: feeling the post-grad crisis, saving up for a masters and volunteering at old houses to feel connected to history again
Me at the end: partway through a History masters at Oxford, finding joy in my research and passions, oh and I dyed my hair 😂
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Char Bookham retweeted
12 Dec 2023
VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS CARDS. After all nothing quite says Christmas like an amorous root vegetable, a group of pyromaniac sparrows or a grotesque-looking teapot lady!! #GothicAdvent
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Char Bookham retweeted
30 Nov 2023
The Winter Issue of the @BAVS_UK Newsletter is out now (and our longest yet)! It's packed with reviews, reports, CFPs, and other things of Victorianist interest 📚 Huge thanks to everyone who contributed!
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ALT Front page of Winter 2023 British Association for Victorian Studies newsletter. On the left is the editors' welcome, including an image of a Victorian Christmas card depicting Illustration of anthropomorphized animals and wine bottles in finery at a party. On the left is the list of members of the BAVS executive committee. Screenreadable PDF via link in tweet.
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Char Bookham retweeted
A surprising new discovery about Keats: the poet was investigated by Italian police shortly before his death. More here: theguardian.com/books/2023/d…
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Char Bookham retweeted
7 Dec 2023
We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of the British poet, Benjamin Zephaniah. Remembered as the people’s poet, Zephaniah's work was dedicated to political injustice.
One of his great heroes was P.B. Shelley, admired for his radicalism and talent: bit.ly/3Rb2WcI
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Char Bookham retweeted
27 Oct 2023
Very strange that Fantasy: Realms of Imagination, which we began working on four years ago, has now transformed from hundreds of plans and drafts into its physical form @britishlibrary. Exhibition open until 25 February 2024 - more details here: bl.uk/events/fantasy.
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Char Bookham retweeted
21 Sep 2023
Playing the Middle Ages, my volume with @ylva_grufstedt, @Mariana_J_Lopez, @CooksterKC, Gordon Smith, @LiamMcLeod_e, @sagathain, @AsinusDocet, @NeilNagwekar, @QuijanoPhD, @markusmindrebo, Patrick Butler, and @BlairApgar is out now from @BloomsburyAcad!
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Char Bookham retweeted
17 Sep 2023
Portrait of Miss Anita Stewart (1908) by Giovanni Boldini (Italian artist, lived 1842–1931). American socialite and heiress who married the grandson of King Miguel I of Portugal (thereby acquiring a royal title). She lived until 1977.
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Char Bookham retweeted
17 Sep 2023
#OTD 1819 Keats writes to his brother
"I have pass’d my time in reading, writing and fretting – the last I intend to give up and stick to the other two"
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Char Bookham retweeted
13 Sep 2023
Oh hey, my talk with @GothicRomancing is coming up in 3 months! I'll be posting the ghost stories I'll be discussing over the next few weeks so you can prepare, if you like! eventbrite.co.uk/e/pots-monk…
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Char Bookham retweeted
15 Sep 2023
Jonathan Harker is taking some real (well deserved) shrapnel in @VictorianMasc's paper: 'He's not the brightest spark, who takes way too long to realise he's the human equivalent of Deliveroo'.
#NotesFromTheNile
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Char Bookham retweeted
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11 Sep 2023
The Chronicles of Narnia are strewn with Turkic references, but nobody really knows why: CS Lewis did not speak Turkish, nor did he ever visit the country
For @EngelsbergIdeas, I wrote about the mystery that has preoccupied me for years
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Char Bookham retweeted
12 Sep 2023
The Council of @RoyalHistSoc is deeply concerned by recent decisions at the University of Chichester, resulting in closure of the MRes in the History of Africa and the African Diaspora, and the redundancy of Professor Hakim Adi bit.ly/3PzS7Bq
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Char Bookham retweeted
6 Sep 2023
It's National #ReadABookDay, and our choice is Frances Burney's third novel, Camilla (1796), which made her enough money to build a house. The novel was enjoyed by the 21-year-old Jane Austen, who was listed amongst the subscribers, and it is mentioned in Northanger Abbey.
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Char Bookham retweeted
5 Sep 2023
David Harewood says portrait stands for ‘resilience of my people’ after Leeds unveiling theguardian.com/culture/2023…
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