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Committed to Bethlem hospital after killing his father in a psychotic episode, Dadd inspired Angela Carter and Queen. Now a new show is exploring his paintings with a more nuanced take on his mental i...

The Vagrancy Act 1824, the law that criminalised rough sleeping in England and Wales, has been repealed.

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What's the point of a university education in the humanities these days? This was a question a friend asked the other day during a conversation about the news of yet further staff redundancies, progra...

Today (28 June) marks the 175th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s coronation at Westminster Abbey. Naturally this major national event was attended by members of both Houses of Parliament. Although i…

Dr Jodie Marley explores Blake's reputation as a mystic during and after his lifetime.

Hannah Squire and Helen Bratt-Wyton will tell us about their experiences of curating the Pre-Raphaelites at Wightwick Manor.

Tickets are now available for Online Event: Harriet Martineau – ‘Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare’ at Online, Online on Wed 15 Jul 2026 at 7:00PM. Click the link for further information and to...

Whitby Abbey seen from the south west (by Jeff Buck, CC BY-SA 2.0) There have been a lot of exciting events that I have saved up for a post (unfortunately, I'm too late for some of them, so I apologise to the organisers and to you all!). Events later in July will appear in a subsequent post. CFP: Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now Conference 2027 Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now; University of Sheffield, 24-26 June 2027 Deadline: 15 September 2026 Since 2024, the Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now project, funded by the AHRC, has sought to reintroduce Ann Radcliffe to 21st-century readers by exploring both her contemporary influence and her lasting legacies.

FEMINANIMALS is a three-day international conference investigating representations of women as non-human animals and of the relationship between women and non-human animals in literature, arts, and ot...

While Charles Darwin's theories acknowledged the diversity and fluidity of sex in nature, he often framed queer and intersex traits as anomalies through the lens of his own social prejudices.