The Blue Kimono (1872) by William Kay Blacklock (British, 1872-1924) Private collection

Goodnight. Les Souris et le Chat-Huant, The Mice and the Owl, Gustave Doré for The Fables of La Fontaine, 1867.

Join us on a visit to ‘The Cathedral of Sewage.' Constructed 1859-1865, designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette and Charles Henry Driver. Inc a guided tour, a chance to see the engines ‘in steam’, a ride on the narrow gauge railway. Vintage bus pick-up at Abbey Wood Station on the day tinyurl.com/ze9a57md

Great to see Osterley House, National Trust engage again with the long legacy of the East India Company and its material cultures in Hounslow. Exciting to see another exhibition on this theme: Journeys: Wedding Shawls, Baghs and Phulkaris from the Karun Thakar Collection, open until 1 November. 1/4

Karun Thakar brings British Asians into Osterley House with National Trust exhibition

Exhibition of shawls invites visitors to rediscover estate's India links

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“Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.” (“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” 2.1) 🎨 Arthur Rackham #ShakespeareSunday

Adelaide Claxton, “The Party on the Stairs”(1875). #SpookySunday

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Patrick Leary@patrickleary.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Curran Index, named after my old friend Eileen Curran, is the world's only ongoing research project devoted to identifying the authors of anonymous articles, stories, and poems in the 19th-c. press. Please check it out and let us know what you think. Your help will be invaluable. #victorian

Born #OnThisDay 1873, Charles Leonard Hartwell, sculptor of this war memorial in Eldon Square, Newcastle. The bird flying past his dynamic St George slaying the dragon (freedom!) adds a nice extra touch! victorianweb.org/sculpture/ha... #sculpture

📩 Our latest newsletter is out now! Read it here: tinyurl.com/5c928zd3 Our lead story - the new campaign to rebuild Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art. 📷 Front North Facade Glasgow School of Art Photo: Ad Meskens CC by SA 3.0

Died #OnThisDay 1888, the popular artist Frank Holl. He was only 43. His early death seemed to fulfil his own tendency to paint melancholy scenes like this one, "I am the Resurrection and the Life (The Village Funeral),"of 1872. He's buried in Highgate Cemetery. victorianweb.org/painting/hol...

Join us on a guided evening guided walk around Peabody’s Chelsea Estates. The tour, from Pimlico to Chelsea, led by Christine Wagg looks at a variety of social housing provision, including developments by early organisations as well as some significant Peabody estates. Book: tinyurl.com/mrvnxzw5

Summer (1878) by James Tissot (French, 1836-1902) Private collection

CFP: 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference (Abstract Deadline: 10/18/2026) navsa.org/News/13659539

And #RSVP2027 will be hosted next year at…the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre of Carleton University in downtown Ottawa! 🇨🇦

DVPP is already the most amazing resource for anyone interested in Victorian authorship, but the Beta version in development will clearly take things to a whole new level. Can't wait to see it live! Thanks to Alison Chapman for a fantastic opening keynote to #BAVS2026.

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Most Victorians read poetry in periodicals instead of in book form. Alison Chapman is leading the following database 👇 3 projects over 29 periodicals: - index - encoded editions - personography #BAVS2026

Woman with a parasol (1911) by John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) Museum of Monserrat, Barcelona, Spain

Part of the west door into Ely Cathedral within the Galilee Porch. This porch is thought to have been built in either the 12th or 13th centuries. #AdoorableThursday

So sad, and so shortsighted, at a time when we have so much need of creativity, imagination, and empathy.... ways to express and strengthen our humanity (sorry to state the obvious).

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6d ago

Creative & performing arts subjects received £16.8 million SPG 2024-25; £12.9 million in 2025-26; £ O million in 2026-27. The University of Creative Arts will thus lose half of its government funding this year; Art University Bournmouth 40.7%, Norwich U of Arts 40.4% and Leeds Arts U 30.3%. 1/2

Do take a look at our What's New for the month!! victorianweb.org/misc/whatsne... One new project has been a revamp of our section on #PreRaphaelite Sir Frank Dicksee. Here's his gorgeously-framed Yseult scanning the sea anxiously as Tristram lies dying.... victorianweb.org/painting/dic...

Go buy Lois Burke's book —less than £30 with the conference discount!— or read it freely online cause it's #OpenAccess! #BAVS2026

Late-Victorian Girls and their Manuscript Magazines

This open access book uncovers the vibrant manuscript cultures of late 19th-century British girls, showcasing their creativity and influence in literature.

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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

Fabulous ironwork (& some tiles!) in St Thomas's Cathedral, Mumbai victorianweb.org/history/empi... (Photos by Patrick Carson)

#Sunday—picturesque churches appeal to artists of all kinds. Set against the sunset, Shere Church, Surrey by Benjamin Williams Leader (1831-1923); and solid against the mist, All Saints, Hastings by Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944) victorianweb.org/painting/lea... and victorianweb.org/painting/pis...

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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In my sabbatical haze, I forgot to widely publicize the availability of the Katherine D. Harris Collection of literary annuals on @archive.org w/complete & searchable table of contents, authors, engravers, literary genre, pg ## 😎 IT's ready!! archive.org/details/kath... #rsvp2026 @rs4vp.org

Katherine D. Harris Collection

About this Collection The Katherine D. Harris Collection consists of approximately 90 nineteenth-century British literary annuals. The most popular titles, including Forget Me Not, The ...

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Congratulations to Stephen Donovan and Matthew Rubery on their riveting and rigorously researched page turner of a book, Undercover: Victorian Investigative Journalism in Fact and Fiction (CUP) which has won the RSVP 2026 Colby Scholarly Book Prize, for which I had the privilege to serve as Chair 1/

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals@rs4vp.org · 2w ago

Announced at today's AGM: Huge congratulations to Stephen Donovan & Matthew Rubery, winners of the 2026 Colby Prize for Undercover: Victorian Investigative Journalism in Fact and Fiction! 🏆#RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion

Thanks to changing tastes and greater competition, 25 July 1859 was "Positively The Last Night Forever" at the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in London; demolition began the next day. It was the end of an institution. victorianweb.org/history/lond... #OnThisDay #Victorian #entertainment

Born 23 July 1823, every domestic goddess's favourite poet, Coventry Patmore (author of "The Angel in the House": "Her disposition is devout,/ Her countenance angelical") Three cheers for the New Woman! victorianweb.org/authors/patm...

SUMMER NIGHTS IN FAERY Theodore von Holst captures the antics of a #fairy couple in love in 1833; John Anster Fitzgerald imagines his fairy lovers secreted in a bird's nest being watched by a white mouse in 1860

The presentation of this fine early c19th muslin gown makes visible the fine whitework embroidery that so often decorated garments from this period. Whitework patterns could be sourced from periodicals like Ackermann’s Repository for the nimble fingered stitchers #NGVMelbourne #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡