Are you interested in Ann Radcliffe? Women in Gothic and Horror? Trans horror? Writing workshops with amazing people? You can get it all for one online event. Come to as much or as little as you like! 22nd and 23rd August www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1993974113...

'More Terrors Than Her Reason Could Justify': An Online Gothic Conference

On 22nd and 23rd August we celebrate 200 years of Ann Radcliffe's posthumous publications and marginalised genders in the Gothic!

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♻️ What can Victorian dust-heaps tell us about recycling? Our latest QAQV post, “Victorian Recycling: The Dust-Heap Economy” by Magdalena Pypeć, explores how nineteenth-century Londoners turned household waste into valuable resources: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/victorian-re...

The Dust‑Heap Economy

In light of today’s emphasis on sustainable living and waste reduction, it is worth highlighting that the Victorians were remarkably effective recyclers; a striking example of this fact is the profita...

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CFP: "Keywords in Religion and Victorian Studies," A Special Issue of Victorian Studies navsa.org/News/13642544 Image Source: The Lord Gave and the Lord Hath Taketh Away, Blessed Be the Name of the Lord by Frank Holl, 1868

What connects #Neo-Victorian studies and #Singapore? More than you might think! Check out Maria Szafrańska-Chmielarz's short introduction to the traces of the Victorian past you can find in this amazing city! qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/victorian-ec...

The Remnants of the British Empire

As a member of QAQV who got a chance to visit the city, I found myself not only eagerly learning everything I could but also noting down all the instances of the Victorian past that I came across.

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Please join the network and our friends on the Punch's Pocket Book Archive team for our upcoming symposium "Global circulations – annuals and pocket books on the move", 26–27 November 2026, U of Caen Normandy. Deadline for proposals = 31 August 2026 caesar-project.unicaen.fr/event/call-f...

Call for papers for the CaeSAR ‘Punch’s Pocket Book’ project: ‘Global circulations - annuals and pocket books on the move’, 26–27 November 2026, University of Caen Normandy - CaeSAR

Caen, Strategy for Accelerating Research

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Mary Shelley's Dundee (www.maryshelley.co.uk) histories, biographies, an interactive map, the "Dundee Edition" of Frankenstein, comics, annual writing prizes, resources and more (with teaching guides and materials, and SO MUCH more, to come) - FREE

#CFP Warsaw Literary Meetings Rising Stars 4! This time we invite young scholars to share their research connected to changing fortunes, symbols of status and re-imaginings of social classes. Send us your proposal & paper & discuss it with other researchers 👉 qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/warsaw-liter...

Check out our programme for Placing the 19thC next week - get in touch with us if you’d like to attend online or in person (email in last quote skeet image!) All welcome for what should be a nice and friendly event!

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Our brilliant PhD students have organised a conference - Placing the Nineteenth Century - and you’re all invited! Friday 26th June CFP deadline: Friday 1st May We’re all excited for our keynote speaker, @drclaireocall.bsky.social 🤩 Please share - and send us an abstract!

CfP: 'Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now' (24-26th June 2027, Sheffield) Submit proposals for 20-min papers on any aspect of Radcliffe's life and/or work by 15th Sept. More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6483

IT'S PUBLICATION DAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!! Download 'The King's Dinner: family, nation, and identity on the British table, 1760-1820' here FOR FREE and read all about George III's eating habits over breakfast! uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin... #skystorians #openaccess #18thC #foodhistory 🗃️

The King’s Dinner

The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on the vast kitchen ledgers of two royal households made newly available to research through digiti...

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CNCSI's Early Career Committee is hosting the *Emerging Research and New Directions: An Online Mini-Conference* on Saturday, 13 June 2026, 2:00–5:00 p.m. BST. Keynote by @egholmlund.bsky.social, followed by flash talks on AI in #19thC studies. Registration required: cn-csi.com/event/emergi...

The CfP for the 11th HFRN Conference is now open. Join us at Amsterdam University on 4th February to 5th February 2027. historicalfictionsresearch.org/hfrn-confere...

CFP: Hogg’s World Now (Conference) navsa.org/News/13637856 Image Source: Portrait by John Watson Gordon, 1830

Really pleased to see the recording of Naomi Pullin's talk on the Pleasures and Perils of Aloneness @long18thsem.bsky.social now available on the @ihr.bsky.social website. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Pleasures and Perils of Aloneness: A social history of solitude in Britain in the long eighteenth century

British History in the Long 18th Century Series.

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Heads up, Gothic & Romantic folk: notification of a major Ann Radcliffe conference in Sheffield in June 2027. @radcliffecup.bsky.social @angelawright1794.bsky.social

“Miss Jenkyns and Miss Matty used to rise up, possess themselves each of an orange in silence, and withdraw to the privacy of their own rooms to indulge in sucking oranges.” 📚 Online Talk: Cranford – A TV Classic 🔎 Wed 3 June with @drchrislouttit.bsky.social 🎟️ www.ticketsource.com/elizabeth-ga...

Don't forget you can see our provisional conference schedule and register for #ssnci2026 on our website! See this link ssnci.org/annual-confe...

This is another regular reminder that @incsa.bsky.social's journal ANCR is currently accepting proposals for themed issues. If you are interested, get in touch. Please share! Guidelines for proposals: in-csa.com/themed-speci... Information about the journal: www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...

Call for Proposals: Special / Themed Issues - International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association

Call for Proposals Special / Themed Issues Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research, the journal of the International-Nineteenth Century Studies Association Follow on BlueSky Call for Book Reviews Adva...

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This looks intriguing 👇

Tim Hitchcock@timhitchcock.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Very much looking forward to Naomi Pullin @naomipullin.bsky.social talking about 'The Pleasures and Perils of Aloneness' @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social next Wednesday. All welcome, either in person or online, but please register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

🎥 Missed an event? No worries — we’ve got you covered! The QAQV YouTube channel is the place where you can catch up on recordings of past events. Whether you couldn’t attend live or simply want to revisit your favourite sessions, everything is available in one place. www.youtube.com/@qaqv/featured

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📚 New on the QAQV blog! Emma Woodhouse discusses the research behind her upcoming book "Witches and Witchcraft in Victorian Britain", exploring Victorian beliefs in witchcraft, folklore, and the overlooked histories of working-class women. 🔮 Read now: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/witches-and-...

Witches and Witchcraft in Victorian Britain

Using newspaper and folklore accounts from the era, statistics regarding legal proceedings, and triangulating this with the inclusion and portrayal of witches and witchcraft in Victorian literature an...

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✨ Introducing the new member of the QAQV team ✨ Emma Woodhouse Author of: • Mary, Queen of the Forty • Mercy • The Prendergast Watch • Simple Twists of Fate Writer, educator & Victorian specialist—we’re thrilled to have her on board! 📚 Learn more here: emmawoodhousebooks.wixsite.com/ewhb

7 May 2-6 pm CEST: WORKSHOP (preparation needed) 👉The Villain Within & #TaiChiZero 👉The Victimisation of Henry Jekyll & #Musical Productions LECTURE 👉 Playing #Steampunk London: Collective Memory and #Transmedia Game Spaces by @helenaesser.bsky.social 👇 qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/bavsxqaqv/

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Join us to explore the interactions and connections between the different ways contemporary culture engages with the traces of the Victorian past as well as how these different genres or expressions i...

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New on QAQV 📚 Barbara Braid explores metafiction & myth-making in The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin—from biofiction to media critique. How is a legend created? Who shapes it? 👉Read now on the blog: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/metafiction-... #biofiction #literature #DickTurpin #academicblog

Metafiction and Biomythography in The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin

How is a biographical myth created? Who creates it? What processes are involved in the mythologization of a biographical figure? And is the demythologization of historical figures possible? A great ex...

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Don't forget to register for the upcoming QAQV lecture! Mary Carr – Who Was She Really? Fact, Adaptation & Fictionalities of a Female Victorian Gang Leader A lecture by Emma Woodhouse 🗓 23 April | ⏰ 19:00 CEST | 💻 Zoom Register: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/for-us/

It's nearing 20 years since the last comparable volume on Gaskell was published (2007's Cambridge Companion), & I think in this case a new burst of critical attention to one of the most subtle & enjoyable of Victorian novelists is very much overdue.

Chris Louttit@drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Some exciting book post today - I received my contributor copy of The Routledge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell, edited brilliantly by Lizzie Ludlow & Rebecca Styler! 👇 (1/4)

🧛 New on the QAQV blog The Tragic Fate of Vlad Tepes: Postcolonial Criticism in Japanese Anime Fate/Apocrypha (2017) ✍️ Maria Szafrańska-Chmielarz How did Vlad III become the world’s most famous vampire? How Anime revisits his story and cultural memory Read more: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/the-tragic-f...

The Tragic Fate of Vlad Tepes: Postcolonial Criticism in Japanese Anime Fate/Apocrypha (2017)

The world of anime is full of references to and adaptations of other cultures, with Victorian culture among the most recurring themes.

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QAQV lecture! Mary Carr – Who Was She Really? Fact, Adaptation & Fictionalities of a Female Victorian Gang Leader 🗓 23 April | ⏰ 19:00 CEST | 💻 Zoom Register: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/for-us/ Join Emma Woodhouse as she explores Mary Carr’s life and legacy — from archival records to modern portrayals.

QAQV Chats #4 💬 Neo-historical Biofiction: Counterfictional Lives 19 March 2026 | 19:00–20:30 CET | Zoom Barbara Braid (Univ. of Szczecin) in conversation with Anna Gutowska (Jan Kochanowski Univ.), followed by Q&A moderated by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko. Register here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/qaqvchats/

🎉QAQV Research Group celebrates its 4th anniversary! 🎊 It has been an amazing year! QAQV9 conference, blog posts, guest lecture, new issue of Folio based on the papers from the third WLM RS 3, and so much more! Read our anniversary blog post for a full recap! Link: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/year4/

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Since it is February, here’s another annual report marking the anniversary of us getting together as a research group

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