BYOVO - Bring your own Victorian Objects! - #bbkartsweek Friday 10th May 6pm. Come and share your favourite Victorian artefact (Photographs welcome!) and explore a small handling collection of Victorian things. Book a free place here:
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2023 #Blake exhibits: imagine using this plate in a display in honour of Martin Luther King... how would you make the connection?

I am enjoying working on the 2023 exhibitions checklist of #Blake for Blake Quarterly. The Pastorals of Virgil are often featured. How would you build an exhibition around this intense intimate wood engraving?

Romantic Vagrancy: Thomas Hood and Charles Lamb on mendicant orders vs mendicacy, dispossessed bodies, and the vagrancy act 1824 - a great talk by Dr Sara Lodge LondonParisRomantic

Here's spring:
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All open access for a week or so.

This one is special because we commemorate Morris and because Mark Crosby English Department makes his debut as sales review editor.

Big thanks to John Riordan.

Cover image: Night Thoughts British Museum

Birkbeck Arts Week is upon us! Join us for Renaissance Bodies on 9 May 2024 --> shorturl.at/ezCEG and a Masterclass on Medieval and Early Modern Travel on 10 May 2024 --> shorturl.at/egkEG School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication

Delighted to announce that applications are now open for a fully-funded AHRC CDP PhD studentship with me Edinburgh College of Art with V&A on The Extractive Museum: The formation, evolution & dispersal of the Museum of Practical Geology collections, 1835-c.1901 eca.ed.ac.uk/scholarship/ah…

Better yet, come replace me for a year and teach Literature in English 1830-1910 & 1910-Present Day to our lovely undergrads Mansfield College, University of Oxford
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DEADLINE REMINDER: Fully funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship from 1 October 2024 with Birkbeck, University of London and the British Library on 'Re-Evaluating the Status of Prints at the British Library'.
Deadline: 5pm on Monday 29 April 2024.
Full details here: buff.ly/3PGYmDj

One of the displays in the museum we get asked about most is this image of dust heaps. These were huge piles of refuse including cinders and ash, barley husks from brewers, broken crockery, rags, animal bones and more beside. 1/4 🧵

🚨Academic Job Alert🚨

Come and work with us! We're looking for a 0.5 Lecturer in English Literature, June 5th deadline

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#academic #jobs #London

Alongside the The Leverhulme Trust, we invite postdoctoral – or equivalent – scholars in humanities and social sciences to apply for the BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. The awards are up to £10,000 in value. Application deadline is 5 June. Apply now: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-lev…

So looking forward to hearing @learnonsense talking about displaced bodies LondonParisRomantic on Friday: not to be missed

Great & timely new work by my Birkbeck, University of London colleague Fintan Walsh: Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres. Free to read if you're quick! School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication

These pocketbooks are so fascinating. NYU Special Collections had a set that came in its own wooden box—some of the diaries were inscribed—& I was lucky to research them for my notebooks exhibition. This is a great digital scholarship/special collections/book history opportunity

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