The Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies is an interdisciplinary group of academic and student researchers whose work draws on diverse fields.

Session in the morning followed by visit to David Parr house in the afternoon. A neglected figure, the Victorian ‘art-workman’ worked largely in a trade context, often as part of a firm supplying skil...

YouTube video by Dr Vicky Mills

Thanks to funding from Birkbeck’s Research Innovation Fund, supported by alumni donations, the legacy of Victorian art-workman David Parr has been brought to life in The Man Who Painted His House, a s...

Narratives of nineteenth-century orchid collecting and their role in constructions of personal and national identity.