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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Clara Zarza, 'Wonder and Desire in the Museum: Immersive Devices from Akeley’s Early Habitat Dioramas to Eliasson’s Contemporary Art Installations' Rachel Ozerkevich, Cameras, Handwork, and Bodily Traces: Overpainted Photomechanical Images of Athletes and their Terrains

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Megan Nash,'"No photons to capture": Electric Lighting and Visual Culture at Binoomea (Jenolan Caves)' Kelly Presutti, '"Brutal magic": Staging Human-Environmental Relations in the Anthropocene' Robert Thomas Kilroy,'Tailoring Authenticity: A Media Post-Mortem of the Daguerreotype through the NFT'

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Alaz Okudan, 'Camera Archaeologia: A Media Archaeological Investigation into the Contemporary Use of Nineteenth-Century Photographic Processes' Amrita Biswas and Johanna Laub, 'Reconstructing Nineteenth-Century Frankfurt: Time Travel in TimeRide and the Neue Altstadt'

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Rachel Lee Hutcheson, 'On Screen and in Living Colours: Vision and Early Colour Photography' Heidi Aronson Kolk, 'Picturing Hart Island: Negative Heritage Reclaimed' Tina Wasserman, 'Cinema Redivivus: Bill Morrison and Early Cinema’s Spectral Return'

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

TOC Patricia Smyth &Gülru Çakmak, 'Nineteenth-Century Technologies, Contemporary Stakes' Kris Belden-Adams,'Plaster Peaks, Photography, and the Spread of Scientific Knowledge: The Tale of Tenerife' Melody Davis, 'Behind the Scenes with Franklin George Weller: The Creation of Stereoscopic Tableaux'

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

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

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 06/06/2025

🚨 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...

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Vicky Mills @drvickymills.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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!

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

The research we share here participates in ongoing efforts to redefine the parameters of nineteenth-century studies — in the context of the four nations and across the globe — and seeks to encourage further comparative research into the intertwined histories of literature and language.

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Contributors present close analyses of texts that work to codify and disrupt linguistic hierarchies; that interrogate evolutionary narratives of linguistic development (and decline); and that shed light on the creative possibilities of engagement with linguistic plurality in its richly varied forms.

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

It also considers literature’s role in campaigns to preserve and revive linguistic diversity.

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

11 new essays explore how literature across the long C19th imagined and presented relations between the languages of Britain and Ireland, and how it questioned, reflected, and contributed to the sociolinguistic developments that marginalized (and continue to marginalize) languages other than English

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

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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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

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

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Vicky Mills @drvickymills.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

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....

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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...

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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...

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

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

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

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

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

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

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

It is! I don't know when it happened as I've not been down that way in a while. It looked vaguely permanent though....

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Vicky Mills @drvickymills.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

"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

A picture of the Midland Grand hotel in London decorated with neon signage advertising a gothic bar

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Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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!!!!

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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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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 14/11/2024

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 'March of Intellect' cartoon from the early nineteenth century, which has been used as the cover image of the latest issue of the open-access online journal 19.

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Devoney Looser @devoney.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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....

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

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

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Counterpoint: occultists really shouldn't be allowed to have a disproportionate interest in dentistry.

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

In this issue we revisit the Mechanics' Institute movement to reconstruct traditions and early networks of radical thinking, and urge renewed thinking to reinvent literature’s present and future among the disciplines. 19.bbk.ac.uk

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Issue 36 features contributions from Luisa Calè, Judith Thompson, Ian Newman, Hilary Fraser, John Plunkett, Laurel Brake, Robyn Jakeman, David McAllister, Isobel Armstrong, Zoe Baron and Beatrice Mossman, Emi Del Bene, Esther Leslie, and Jacqueline Rose. 19.bbk.ac.uk

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

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

Robert Seymour, The March of Intellect, ca. 1828, visual satire capturing new knowledge powered by mechanical education in the form of an automaton, wearing an architectural model of the University of London as a crown over a pile of books. This visual satire functions as the mast-head for the new special issue of 19 dedicated to two hundred years of literature at the London Mechanics Institution

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

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...

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

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...

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Sanzo links Stoker’s characterisation of Count Dracula to this energetic moment, combining the language of energy fields with that of the non-Western practices required to produce gutta-percha. Read it here: 19.bbk.ac.uk

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Kameron Sanzo’s “Around the Wire: Telegraphic Infrastructure and Gothic Energies in Late Victorian Britain”, explores the ‘South-East Asian Indigenous communities and lifeways that resisted the Western energy project around’ telegraph wire production.

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Alicia Barnes’s “Railways, Disjointed Mobility, and National Decline: Navigating George Chesney’s ‘The Battle of Dorking’” considers depictions of railway infrastructure in ‘the first example of invasion-scare fiction’. You can read it here: 19.bbk.ac.uk

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 30/11/2023

Have you checked out the latest issue of @19birkbeck.bsky.social? A fav new issue dedicated to Nineteenth-Century Infrastructures guest-edited by Joanna Hofer-Robinson and @nicolakirkby.bsky.social Read it here: 19.bbk.ac.uk/issue/915/in...

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Karin Koehler’s article, “I was not know for sure what be the Queen, Evan; was you?’: Fictions of Development in Amy Dillwyn’s The Rebecca Rioter” considers Dillwyn’s depiction of Wales’s complex relation to infrastructural forces in Britain. Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk

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