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Dr Alice Crossley @alicecrossley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Anyone I know working in the BL today/tomorrow, let me know if you want to grab a coffee! 📖 📚 ☕

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

the media and voter messaging should be this: the current government and the government in waiting do not want your children to be able to go to university, they will not support people in the UK to do original research, they do not care about job losses in one of the largest sectors in the economy

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Dr Alice Crossley @alicecrossley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Not my picture, but it did make me chortle

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Dr Alice Crossley @alicecrossley.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

1st April 2026 was a truly wild ride of a day. There was almost no way to tell which headlines were parodies, and which were real...

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Now it's actually out, here's another plug for my new book about #Victorian New Humour, where I prove that Jerome is better than Joyce. Just now realising I should have called it FUN de siecle. @bavs-uk.bsky.social @vpfa.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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New Humour and Masculinity at the Fin de Siècle

This book explores the popular writing of the New Humourists and their vital engagement with late Victorian conceptions of manliness

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Dr Alice Crossley @alicecrossley.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

What does the text say, do you think, in this dialogue? The reply by "Meary" to "Tummus" is confusing me... "so kipper"?! For context, this is a frontispiece to a C19th Valentine Writer (so wanting a "smeawtch"/kiss makes sense - I just can't work out the reply!)

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Dr Alice Crossley @alicecrossley.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Happy new year, all! Can anyone recommend good critical sources on redacted names/ blanks/ initialism in C18th lit? I'm looking for something about the various purposes of the practice, whether for real names or fictional, and my context is popular fiction in 1790s. TIA! #skystorians #c18th

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University of Lincoln Nineteenth-Century Research Group @c19-lincoln.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Lincoln's fantastic C19 Research Group PGR Rep, Rebecca Shipp, is organising this year's PGR Symposium, featuring a keynote lecture from Prof. Roger Ebbatson: 'Ever the Road: Hardy and Edward Thomas'. All welcome, free to attend. Weds 7th May, Brayford Campus, MB0312. Full programme to come soon!

Poster text:LSHH 2025 Postgraduate Research Symposium & Public Lecture. Wednesday 7th May, 3pm - 6.30pm, Co-Op Lecture Theatre (MB0312). This showcase provides a platform for LSHH PGR (PhD) students to present papers on their research, and this year the event will also feature a keynote lecture in association with the Nineteenth Century Research Group: Professor Roger Ebbatson (Lancaster University) - 'Ever the Road: Hardy and Edward Thomas'. This event is free and open to the public, and all levels of students are encouraged to attend. We look forward to seeing you there. For any queries, please contact Rebecca Shipp, PGR Lead, at rshipp@lincoln.ac.uk.

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Dr Alice Crossley @alicecrossley.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Looking forward to giving a short talk today, 'Victorian Valentines: Naughty or Nice?' introducing Kate Clanchy's valentines poetry workshop this afternoon @ 5.30pm, Mansfield College @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social using the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social John Johnson & Harding collections!

Harding collection, comic valentines, E. 304. Bodleian Library. 'The Professional Valentine Writer'. Handcoloured frontispiece showing cupid sat writing letters

John Johnson Collection of Ephemera, Valentines, comic box 2, Bodleian Library. A handcoloured caricature of a woman, each of her features are labelled "false", with a mocking verse beneath

John Johnson Collection of Ephemera, Valentines, Album 86.2, Bodleian Library. Engraved, handcoloured valentine. A couple stand at an altar of love, with several cherubs watching. A verse printed beneath. Handwritten printer's notes in the margins.

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Dr Alice Crossley @alicecrossley.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Tomorrow I am making my TV debut! I've been invited onto Sunday Morning Live (BBC1, 10.30am 9th Feb) to talk a little bit about the history & traditions of Valentine's Day. There will be cards! Flowers! Roman martyrs! Love spoons! And maybe even a quick how-to on Victorian fan flirtation... 💕💌💘

A selection of 6 highly decorative 19th-century valentines cards, all typical of the period, featuring sentimental images of children & flowers.

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Dr Alice Crossley @alicecrossley.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Kicking off my semester of sabbatical research with a couple of days at the wonderful Centre for Ephemera Studies, University of Reading. Here be trade cards, rewards of merit, greetings & friendship cards, valentines, scrapbooks and more galore! #ephemera #printculture #19thcentury #materialculture

8 British trade cards for hatters & tailors

3 large comic or "vinegar" valentines. Each pictures a caricatures woman printed in red & black, with a short verse or text beneath. Addressed 'To a factory girl', 'To a pert young milliner', and 'The prize peacock!'

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

New CFP: Australasian Victorian Studies Association 2025 Conference, ‘Victorian Modernities’, with keynote speaker Professor Sally Shuttleworth. Paper and panel proposals due by 31 March 2025. #victorianstudies #nineteenthcentury

24-25 July 2025, University of Queensland, Australia
Keynote Speaker: Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)
"We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time" wrote Thomas Carlyle in 1829, as he urged his contemporaries to discern the "distinctive characters and deeper tendencies" of their age. For many Victorians, the present was an age of profound transformation and self-questioning, marked by rapid industrialisation, urbanisation, and technological innovation. It was an age when global communications and travel became faster and more accessible, thanks to the railways, steamships, and the electric telegraph. Advances in science and technology, from Darwin's theories to electricity's integration into daily life, sparked excitement and anxiety. Victorians began to grapple with the complexities of being 'modern,' a term increasingly invoked in debates about progress, tradition, and history. Sociologists, philosophers, and cultural theorists reflected on how these shifts redefined society, while Victorian fictions probed the social and psychological consequences of such changes.
We invite papers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including Literature, History, Music, Art History, and the History of Science, which explore how the Victorians experienced, understood, and represented their modernities. Topics might include but are not limited to:
• Victorian print and media culture, avant-garde movements and new genres
• Modern transport and networks of communication
• Victorians abroad, tourism, and travel writing
• Victorian advances in science, technology, and medicine
• Commodity culture and consumerism
• Imperialism, nationalism, and colonialism
• Modern spaces and temporalities, including the Victorian city
• Counter-movements, challenges or resistance to modernity
• New social types, such as the New Woman, the Dandy, and the Aesthete
• Neo-Victorian re-visions of modernity
Please send proposals of no more than 300 words, a…

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Dr Alice Crossley @alicecrossley.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The wonderful @crulph.bsky.social informs me that now I've joined bluesky, I have to pay the obligatory #PetTax and post a photo of my doggo. So here she is, looking like a sulky, sultry heroine reclining in her boudoir. She's ready for her close up now. And snacks. #beagle #dog

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Dr Alice Crossley @alicecrossley.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Who's interested in the Victorians, saving money, fun crafts, or gifting meaningful homemade Christmas presents? I wrote something for @uk.theconversation.com 'Seven Victorian paper craft projects that could cut your Christmas consumption' theconversation.com/seven-victor... #19thcentury #Victorians

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Seven Victorian paper craft projects that could cut your Christmas consumption

These Victorian paper projects will reduce unnecessary spending, and as gifts they’re much more personal and meaningful.

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