When Alfred Tennyson published ‘The Kraken’ in 1830, he gave Victorian poetry one of its most ambiguous images of hidden power, unaffected by history, culture, and human consciousness. Almost two cent...

On 22nd and 23rd August we celebrate 200 years of Ann Radcliffe's posthumous publications and marginalised genders in the Gothic!

In light of today’s emphasis on sustainable living and waste reduction, it is worth highlighting that the Victorians were remarkably effective recyclers; a striking example of this fact is the profita...

As a member of QAQV who got a chance to visit the city, I found myself not only eagerly learning everything I could but also noting down all the instances of the Victorian past that I came across.

Caen, Strategy for Accelerating Research

The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on the vast kitchen ledgers of two royal households made newly available to research through digiti...

Emerging Research and New Directions An Online Mini-Conference Saturday, 13 June 2026 2:00–5:00 p.m. BST Online The Early Career Committee of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies International (C...

British History in the Long 18th Century Series.

Call for Proposals Special / Themed Issues Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research, the journal of the International-Nineteenth Century Studies Association Follow on BlueSky Call for Book Reviews Adva...

some of our guest lectures | keynotes | QAQV Chats & more

Using newspaper and folklore accounts from the era, statistics regarding legal proceedings, and triangulating this with the inclusion and portrayal of witches and witchcraft in Victorian literature an...

Join us to explore the interactions and connections between the different ways contemporary culture engages with the traces of the Victorian past as well as how these different genres or expressions i...

How is a biographical myth created? Who creates it? What processes are involved in the mythologization of a biographical figure? And is the demythologization of historical figures possible? A great ex...

The world of anime is full of references to and adaptations of other cultures, with Victorian culture among the most recurring themes.

Since it is February, here’s another annual report marking the anniversary of us getting together as a research group

In this meeting, we would like to explore the interactions and connections between the different ways contemporary culture engages with the traces of the Victorian past as well as how these different ...

A series of one-day interdisciplinary workshops for young scholars - PGRs, PhD students and ECRs, with the same format as a regular WLM

In 1727, an elderly woman named Janet Horne was executed in the Scottish Highlands for the crime of witchcraft. Nearly three centuries later, her story still lingers - fragmented, uncertain, and filte...

In this meeting, we would like to explore the interactions and connections between the different ways contemporary culture engages with the traces of the Victorian past as well as how these different ...

text by Konrad Zaręba In 1893, Oscar Wilde composed the one-act drama Salomé, which retells, as its title indicates, the biblical narrative of Salome and the execution of John the Baptist. Because the...

Join us for a Christmassy treat for the latest research from EHU Nineteen's postgraduate researchers!

In this meeting, we would like to explore the interactions and connections between the different ways contemporary culture engages with the traces of the Victorian past as well as how these different ...

Mary Linwood learned her extraordinary needlework skills from her mother at an early age, and she started creating more complex pieces as a teenager. She used a style of embroidery called "needle-pain...

FORTHCOMING Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times, and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act This lecture explores the legal symbolism of “mud” and “stars,” the two inextricably linked extr...

FORTHCOMING Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times, and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act This lecture explores the legal symbolism of “mud” and “stars,” the two inextricably linked extr...

Last month, we were hosting another From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria conference. The theme of QAQV9 was the past which, according to the well-known line by William Faulkner, “is never dead” and is “n...