QMUL Centre for 19C & Legacies

@c19qmul.bsky.social

Centre for the Study of the Nineteenth Century and its Legacies - QMUL Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. https://www.qmul.ac.uk/arts/research/19th-century-centre/

Sad that my damaged ankle precludes me presenting some magic lantern slides at QMUL tomorrow night, but here's a damaged but stunning slide to compensate. The aerialist is unidentified but is possibly Ella Zuila as another slide in the set shows her riding her velocipede on the wire.

A damaged magic lantern slide showing a Victorian female aerialist hanging from a trapeze with the winged Angel of Death gripping her around the waist with one hand whilst holding a spear, perhaps, in the other hand.
QMUL Centre for 19C & Legacies@c19qmul.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hello new followers 👋 Do check out our new website. We hope you can join us at an event delving into the nineteenth century and its legacies very soon! www.qmul.ac.uk/arts/researc...

Upcoming Events:
- 'Meet the Magic Lantern': 19th November 2024.
- Carols in Context, 9th December 2024, 6-8pm
Back by popular demand, this year's Carols in Context event will be on Monday 9th December 2024, 6-8pm.
Please save the date! Booking information will be published shortly and we look forward to seeing you there.

Hi again Victorianist peeps! It's lovely to follow so many folks doing such fascinating work. Also to see lots of old friends. I'm re-upping this because VIC has been so quiet lately, and yet it's a great place for longer-form C19 queries, answers, and discussions than can easily be posted here.

Patrick Leary@patrickleary.bsky.social · 2y ago

Warm welcome to all new followers! To my fellow Victorianists: the VICTORIA discussion group remains a generous, welcoming space, supportive without at all overwhelming your inbox. And the archives are a great resource. If you’re not already a member, check it out: list.iu.edu/sympa/info/v...

Do you want to contribute to the BAVS community, keep abreast of recent Victorianist publications & develop editing experience? Consider joining the BAVS Newsletter team, dealine Mon 12 Aug - I'm happy to chat about the role if you're thinking of applying. victorianist.wordpress.com/2024/08/01/b...

BAVS Newsletter Editor and Assistant Editor

BAVS are looking for a new Communications Team (BAVS Newsletter Editor and Assistant Editor) to join the Executive Committee. They will be responsible for compiling and distributing the triannual News...

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Hello to the recent influx of BlueSkyers! Please do follow us to hear about fantastic upcoming events running at Queen Mary University of London - we are an interdisciplinary community of experts on the long nineteenth century and foster collaborative connections within and beyond the university.

Nasser Mufti will be sharing WIP with us on Wed 14 Feb: ‘C.L.R. James's "Comity of Nations": Britain’s Nineteenth Century from the Standpoint of Decolonization’. Delighted to be co-hosting this with the QMUL Postcolonial Seminar. Details and sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/britains-n...

Britain’s Nineteenth Century from the Standpoint of Decolonization

C.LR. James's “Comity of Nations”: Britain’s Nineteenth Century from the Standpoint of Decolonization, a paper by Nasser Mufti (UIC)

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Nasser Mufti will be sharing WIP with us on Wed 14 Feb: ‘C.L.R. James's "Comity of Nations": Britain’s Nineteenth Century from the Standpoint of Decolonization’. Delighted to be co-hosting this with the QMUL Postcolonial Seminar. Details and sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/britains-n...

Britain’s Nineteenth Century from the Standpoint of Decolonization

C.LR. James's “Comity of Nations”: Britain’s Nineteenth Century from the Standpoint of Decolonization, a paper by Nasser Mufti (UIC)

eventbrite.co.uk

This was a fabulous event! Beautiful singing and fascinating context for the carols. Made my Monday a bit less Monday

Clare Stainthorp@claregs.bsky.social · 3y ago

Looking forward to introducing another Victorian secularist song as part of the this evening's @c19qmul.bsky.social Carols in Context event. Alongside more familiar pieces, we'll be singing 'Sympathy.' Two verses received Gladstone's own tick of approval in his copy held at @gladlib.bsky.social

Slide with two scanned pages: title page of 'The Secularist's Manual of Songs and Ceremonies' edited by Austin Holyoake and Charles Watts (1871); page with two songs 'Sympathy' and 'Benevolence', each has 4 quatrains. A line with a tick highlights:

Go, bid the hungry orphan be
With thine abundance bless'd;
Invite the wand'rer to thy gate,
And spread the couch of rest.

Let him who pines with piercing cold
By thee be warm'd and clad;
Be thine the blissful task, to make
The downcast mourner glad.

WEG/G 43/HOL Gladstone’s Library (Hawarden)

Thanks to Yahya Birt and Hamid Mahmood for joining us this afternoon at QMUL - fantastic to hear about Abdullah Quilliam, Fatima Cates and Islamic communities in late-Victorian Britain. Highly recommend checking out their books to learn more 📚

Photo of two men and woman sitting behind a table in a seminar room in conversation. A backing slide reads ‘Islamic Communities in Victorian Britain’ and show covers of books about Abdullah Quilliam and Fatima Cates