@vpreditors.bsky.social circulated a "Movements and Migration" special issue CFP on paper at #RSVP2026 (400/500-word abstracts due September 1)... Is it also available online? Can I leave my copy in the recycling at @emilyjlm.bsky.social's house?

Thanks indeed to @bavs-uk.bsky.social President @vicmanch.bsky.social (left) and conference organizer @drhorrocks.bsky.social (right)! A special thanks, Clare, for reaching out on Bluesky to say that I should attend #BAVS2026 if I was attending #RSVP2026 — it was not at all on my radar!

Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · last wk.

Thank you Clare Horrocks for an amazing #BAVS2026 @bavs-uk.bsky.social

@bavs-uk.bsky.social-Rosemary Mitchell Prize for the Best PhD Student Conference Paper goes to Kirara Akashi 👏 #BAVS2026

Marie Léger-St-Jean@marielsj.bsky.social · last wk.

Kirara Akashi kicked off the parallel sessions with neo-Victorianism instead a topic from the Victorian Era! She presents artist Edward Gorey and the dark humour in his picturebooks, puppet entertainments, and printed ephemera #BAVS2026

The 2026 @bavs-uk.bsky.social-Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a second monograph goes to @sorourke25.bsky.social! 👏 The monograph started as a book about time so—don't worry—you can change topics midway through a project! Also, if the book you wanna cite doesn't exist, maybe 🫵 should ✍️ it! #BAVS2026

Nathan K. Hensley@nathankhensley.bsky.social · last yr.

in other words, everyone should preorder @sorourke25.bsky.social's forthcoming book immediately! it is so smart & the parts I got to read are absolutely brilliant

#BAVS2026

Marie Léger-St-Jean@marielsj.bsky.social · last wk.

Lizzie Ludlow and Amanda Vernon: 👎 experienced some technical issues in one interview 👎 discovered that it was harder to edit than an article cause you can't re-do the interviews 👍 found it rewarding, especially being invited to join a Stanford high school class to discuss Procter's poetry #BAVS

My last paper at #BAVS2026 was Lizzie Ludlow and Amanda Vernon discussing their successful experience producing a 5-episode podcast about Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864), crafting an argument while interviewing fellow scholars. (It was also announced with great fanfare by @bavs-uk.bsky.social👇)

Jim Mussell@jimmussell.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I enjoyed being interviewed about Adelaide Anne Procter, the English Woman's Journal, and the Victoria Press by Lizzie Ludlow and Amanda Vernon for their podcast Adelaide Anne Procter: Victorian Poetry, Faith, and Fundraising. First episode here (I'm in no. 3): open.spotify.com/episode/7iHS...

First up in our two-paper graveyard shift: Elise Garritzen on Victorian historians as contemporaneous celebrities. She published *Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England: Books, the Literary Marketplace, and the Scholarly Persona* (2023) #BAVS2026

Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England

This book comprehensively traces the transformation of history from a Romantic literary pursuit into a modern academic discipline

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For the third and last #BAVS2026 keynote, @amymatthewson.bsky.social discusses theatrical scenery and sets, the theatre as an emotional space, and China on stage. Below is a theatre programme for an 1885 *Aladdin* pantomime at the Drury Lane written by Edward Litt Leman Blanchard (1820–1889).

@aparnaup.bsky.social is on @bsky.app! Here's my live-posting of her paper on Monday at #BAVS2026

Marie Léger-St-Jean@marielsj.bsky.social · last wk.

Aparna Uma brings us back to the 19th century (though it's very end): she close-reads the functions of humour in Arthur Conan Doyle’s "A Study in Scarlet" #BAVS2026

Julia Snykers presents her work using a feminist neo-Victorian lens to study the "domestic noir"—think *Gone Girl* (2012 novel, 2014 film adaptation) Gendered anxieties—with violence perpetrated by a male partner on a female protagonist—characterize this literary subgenre of crime fiction #BAVS2026

Well hello there 🤩 Unrelated to #BAVS2026 but browsing the @wikipedia.org article on "outlaw", I've stumbled upon a photograph on Australian outlaw Ned Kelly (1854–1880) and discovered just how much of a lumbersexual he was! Or is it the other way around? We need scholarship on this crucial issue!

Josh F. Collins is asking if a Victorian moral panic made outlawry obsolete... He first got interested in a 1938 parliamentary discussion about removing two words "outlawed, or" as part of a bill proposed by the Administration of Justice. #BAVS2026

Alex Bubb's speculative proposal: Hubert Englebricht Teschemacher (1856-1907) imagined his participation in the Johnson County War (1889-1893, aka Wyoming Range War) as a Japonist act. A Francophone cattle rancher in Wyoming imagining himself as a Japonese warrior while being vigilante 🤯 #BAVS2026

Johnson County War - Wikipedia

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Next up, Brian H. Murray directs our attention to the way contemporary Black artists made interventions to Victorian statues in what sculptor Hew Locke calls "mindful vandalism" and scholar Alan Rice terms "guerrilla memorialisation" #BAVS2026

Hew Locke - Wikipedia

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First up bright & early after karaoké—for me, not her—is Hettie Marsden on the politics of collaborative embroidery. Welsh farmers dressed as the biblical character to protest levels of taxation 1839-43 by targeting toll-gates in what are known as the Rebecca Riots (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Terfysgoedd Beca). #BAVS2026

Rebecca Riots - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Warning #BAVS2026! The printed program and the online program are not identical! Follow the printed one... The anger & rage panel is in G09 💪

Anyone else not going to the #BAVS2026 dinner wanna go eat together?

Last up, @c19thnewshound.bsky.social on the dirty tricks allegedly played on the *Illustrated London News*, first published on Saturday 14 May 1842 by Herbert Ingram (1811–1860)... #BAVS2026

The Illustrated London News - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Right, that's done! Following is Freddie—Freddy?—Hyde, talking about *Flash for Freedom!* (1971) by George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008), the 1848 Chartist portion of the "Flashman Papers" series In it appears a butcher's boy who fights a Frenchman—whom Hyde expected to hear about at uni #BAVS2026

Here are my slides for my upcoming talk (yes, the same as #RSVP2026). That way, you don't need to attend and/or you can follow the sources with the links in the speaker's notes! #BAVS2026

2026 Worldwide fin-de-siècle scam ad syndication

Worldwide fin-de-siècle scam ad syndication: the case of the Morse Manufacturing Company Marie Léger-St-Jean

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My computer has died: does anyone at #BAVS2026 have a USB-C charger for my MacBook? I'm presenting next session in G23 (but no worries, I don't need my computer to do so, just to be able to live-post better)

Great news for @punchspocketbook.bsky.social @drhorrocks.bsky.social @fbaillet.bsky.social! 🥳 You can read more about the project on the page below and its Hypotheses #OpenScience notebook (link in the page) 👇 #BAVS2026

Punch's Pocket Book Archive Project · ERIBIA - Équipe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la Grande-Bretagne, l'Irlande et l'Amérique du Nord

Punch’s Pocket Book – Presentation Punch, or the London Charivari (1841-2002) is certainly one of Britain’s central cultural institutions. Launched in

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Punch's Pocket Book Archive@punchspocketbook.bsky.social · last wk.

Absolutely delighted to let you know that the Punch's Pocket Book Archive project has just been selected for a substantial grant from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (2026-2030). We would like to thank all members of the project, past and present, for their contribution to the venture.

Lois Burke —formerly at Tilburg University, now at the University of Stirling— is making her pitch for the usefulness of manuscript magazines. There is for instance "The Sunbeam Magazine" (1866), edited by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)... collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/1067... #BAVS2026

@dhchris.bsky.social is upfront about the limitations of AI-enhanced optical character recognition (OCR) and handwritten text recognition (HTR): - its potential to hallucinate; - the absence of word-level coordinates which make it possible to place a green box around the word on the page #BAVS2026

Fellow independent scholar @janetteleaf.bsky.social is energetically presenting sea shanties These working songs are strictly Victorian—before the advent of steamboats because they're about keeping tempo while hoisting sails The English-language name is derived from the French "chanter"😲 #BAVS2026

Sea shanty - Wikipedia

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Asha Hornsby starts the afternoon by discussing how the celebration of May Day aboard British Northern (Arctic) whaling ships —involving garlands and grog— help sailors navigate the two emotional communities to which they belong, that on shore and that at sea. #BAVS2026

May Day - Wikipedia

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Oh, I hadn't seen this pic of the whole @rs4vp.org gang! Thanks Pete for being our official #RSVP2026 photographer!

Clare Clarke@clareclarke.bsky.social · 2w ago

And that’s a wrap on #RSVP2026 @rs4vp.org 🥂🍾🥂🍾🥂🍾🥂🍾🥂🍾 Photo: Pete Clarke

We're running a short online survey to inform development of the Curran Index. If you're interested in Victorian periodicals, whether or not you've used the Curran recently, please complete the survey! Survey closes 10th August. Please retweet. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Curran Index User Survey

Thanks for being willing to complete this short survey. Whether or not you have used the Curran Index recently (or at all) we are looking for opinions on how the Curran can best be improved and develo...

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Thrilled to see Alex Bubb's work on book collecting! I remember him getting into it and me telling him to start a bibliographic database. His website has a great acronym: *Archive of Victorian Translations from Asia and their Readerships (AVaTAR): Asian Literature in the Victorian World* #BAVS2026

2nd #BAVS2026 keynote—Joe Kember & John Plunkett about their book *Popular Visual Shows 1800–1914: Picturegoing from Peep Shows to Film* It was "transmedia" insofar as a single show used many media types Their case-studies couldn't follow a media- or venue-based approach academic.oup.com/book/59930