New issue alert! ‘Nineteenth-Century Visual Technologies in Contemporary Practices’, guest edited by Gülru Çakmak and Patricia Smyth is now freely available online at 19.bbk.ac.uk. @openlibhums.org

🚨 Last call! 🚨 We're HIRING an Editorial Officer — deadline is this 📅 Sunday, 8 June 2025! If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply. Fully remote position! Apply now: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...

Thanks to all who attended last week’s screening of ‘The Man Who Painted His House’, which played to a packed Birkbeck cinema. @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social More on this project soon!

19.bbk.ac.uk The new issue of our open access journal (ed. by @drkarinkoehler.bsky.social and Gregory Tate) asks how our understanding of nineteenth-century literature and culture changes when we attend more closely to the four nations’ multilingual past and present

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New issue now available! 'Issue 37: Nineteenth-Century Literary Languages' asks how our understanding of C19th literature and culture changes when we attend more closely to the multilingual past and present of the 4 nations in the UK. Ed. by Karin Koehler and Gregory Tate 19.bbk.ac.uk

New issue now available! 'Issue 37: Nineteenth-Century Literary Languages' asks how our understanding of C19th literature and culture changes when we attend more closely to the multilingual past and present of the 4 nations in the UK. Ed. by Karin Koehler and Gregory Tate 19.bbk.ac.uk

Preview screening of my short film ‘The Man Who Painted His House’ on the life and extraordinary work of Victorian art-workman David Parr. 7th May 6 pm Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square. @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social Book your tickets here! www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event....

To close our latest issue, Professor Jacqueline Rose asks what nineteenth-century literary writing, and especially Mary Shelley’s relatively unknown novel 'Valperga', can teach us about the crisis facing the humanities today. Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...

What did The Strand look like in 1823, through the eyes of William Blake at Fountain Court, or Mary Shelley at the church of St Clement's? @afoggyplace.bsky.social walks us through the buskers, crowds, and pub meetings for radicals in her fascinating article: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...

In our latest issue, Emi Del Bene examines a rousing poem on Polish independence by Stanisław Egbert Koźmian, an entry in Anna Birkbeck's album which offers insights into the networks of European political exiles and insurrectionists in 1820-30s London. 19.bbk.ac.uk

In our latest issue, Zoe Baron and Beatrice Mossman examine ‘M.S. Lines on Lady Caroline Lamb’, a poem by salon hostess and travel writer Elizabeth Spence which illuminates the provocative friendships, class dynamics, and fraught gender expectations of the early 19th century. 19.bbk.ac.uk

Continuing this issue's examination of contributions to Anna Birkbeck’s album, Professor Isobel Armstrong analyses the poetry of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, who advocated ‘the public circulation of affect and the necessity of dreaming as a social need’. Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk

In our latest issue, Dr. David McAllister unearths a little-known poem of geologist Gideon Mantell, featured in Anna Birkbeck's 1825 album, and offers a fascinating example of the imbrication of scientific and literary writing in the Romantic era. Read this article and more at 19.bbk.ac.uk

How did developments in adult education from 1823 shape Birkbeck, and how has the college adapted to survive over time? Read Laurel Brake's fantastic article, followed by Robyn Jakeman's timeline, at 19.bbk.ac.uk

Was the London Mechanics' Institute (now @BirkbeckUoL) a pioneer of the visual lecture? Read @Prof_JPlunkett on the university's fascinating attempts to illustrate knowledge: from diagrams & transparencies to magic lantern shows to live experiments. 19.bbk.ac.uk

Celebrating Birkbeck English and a new edition of @19birkbeck.bsky.social on the anniversary of the college foundation day last night. A fantastic issue put together by @luisacale.bsky.social

"I believe, then, that the characteristics of Gothic are the following, placed in the order of their importance: 1. Savageness 2. Changefulness 3. Naturalism 4. Grotesqueness 5. Rigidity 6. Redundance 6. Big neon signs bearing the word 'Gothic' in a sort of spooky typeface." John Ruskin

The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now up on jobs.ac.uk - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r... Please spread the word!!!!

Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History at Lancaster University

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History on jobs.ac.uk!

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Here's the link: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1... And here's the Westminster Review: catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00050...

Utilitarians, Educators, Poets: The Beginnings of the <em>Westminster Review</em> and the London Mechanics’ Institution

The Westminster Review and the London Mechanics’ Institution were established within months of each other in 1823–24. The prestige periodical, founded on faith in the power of print media to improve l...

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century@19birkbeck.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Westminster Review and the London Mechanics’ Institution were established within months of each other in 1823–24. In our latest issue, Hilary Fraser unearths the early history of these two initiatives and the radical London milieu that produced them. Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk

The Westminster Review and the London Mechanics’ Institution were established within months of each other in 1823–24. In our latest issue, Hilary Fraser unearths the early history of these two initiatives and the radical London milieu that produced them. Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk

Next up, Ian Newman examines the relationship between the Mechanics’ Magazine and the founding of the London Mechanics’ Institution through the prism of Francis Place, who was involved in each. Read here: 19.bbk.ac.uk

In our latest issue, Judith Thompson's '‘Operations and cooperations’: John Thelwall, George Birkbeck, and the Movement for Public Education in Britain' explores the collaborations between the radical Romantic polymath and Birkbeck's founder. Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk

New issue of @19birkbeck.bsky.social out now! '1823-2023: Literature, Invention, Radical Thinking at the London Mechanics' Institution.' This issue revisits the Mechanics' Institute movement and urges new thinking to reinvent literature’s role across disciplines: 19.bbk.ac.uk/issue/1289/i...

A new open-access journal, Public Humanities, has launched. I'm proud to have a piece in the inaugural "Manifesto" issue, on "The Necessity of Public Writing." I hope academo-friends will read, circulate, propose, and submit. doi.org/10.1017/pub....

Our new issue is now live! '1823-2023: Literature, Invention, Radical Thinking at the London Mechanics' Institution' 19.bbk.ac.uk @openlibhums.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social

Starter pack for journals of literary scholarship. Please share so we can add to the list as more journals create accounts here. go.bsky.app/2Asc5P2

This looks like an excellent issue of a great journal. I've already enjoyed Jacqueline Rose's essay on the connections between Mary Shelley's Valperga and the threats to learning facing Birkbeck, more than most universities, at the current moment... 1/2

19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century@19birkbeck.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our new issue is now live! '1823-2023: Literature, Invention, Radical Thinking at the London Mechanics' Institution' 19.bbk.ac.uk @openlibhums.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social

Our new issue is now live! '1823-2023: Literature, Invention, Radical Thinking at the London Mechanics' Institution' 19.bbk.ac.uk @openlibhums.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social

Knowledge is Power - 1823-2023: Literature, Invention, Radical Thinking at the London Mechanics' Institution, new issue of @19birkbeck.bsky.social, celebrating two hundred years of #literature among the disciplines Read us: 19.bbk.ac.uk

If you’re a CHASE- funded PhD student with an interest in editorial work, online publishing and world-leading C19th research, apply for this internship with us! www.chase.ac.uk/placements/1...