This paper was given at British Association of Victorian Studies annual conference in 2022. There will be dyslexic errors and quirks. It was at a previous BAVS conference that I confessed that I had never read the novels of Charles Dickens. It was in response to someone’s observation, during an afternoon coffee break, that this… Continue reading ‘I’ve never read Dickens’: Being a Dyslexic Victorian Historian
This series of workshops will reflect on how history lecturers, broadly defined, engage with and use creative methods in the higher education classroom. We know that history is a creative endeavor. Historians are storytellers who not only write history, but also tell a story of the past through the creative curation of archival sources. When… Continue reading Creative History in the Classroom Workshops, September 2022-January 2023. (Online)
You are invited to join some keen readers of home and domesticity to the following reading groups. Please sign up through the Eventbrite link below. Come with cups of coffee for a scholarly natter. See you there! If you have any questions or queries email Lucie at l.m.matthewsjones@ljmu.ac.uk. Readings will be sent in advance of… Continue reading History of Home Studies Reading Group
This post was written in 2013 for Profhacker. It is no longer on their site. I have published the draft I sent here before editorial interventions. As we start to think about community building in the classroom and how to use digital resources imaginatively, I thought I would share this example. Digital databases have provided… Continue reading Facebooking the past
This post forms the basis of a presentation I gave at the Royal Historical Society and History UK’s ‘New to Teaching Event’ on 10th September 2019. What is the Creative Assessment? For the past six years, third-year students taking my ‘Victorian Cities’ module have been asked to submit a creative assessment. They can produce either… Continue reading Assessing Creatively, or why I’ve embraced the #unessay
I was intrigued to scroll through the hashtag #thanksfortyping last weekend. As I paused between marking essays, new tweets had been uploaded all reminding us that wives have played a part in producing their husband’s academic work. To adapt a famous quote ‘Behind every great academic, there is a women’. Male historians were no exception as… Continue reading #thanksfortyping & the invisible labours of academic work
The terms ‘divided’, ‘segregated’, and ‘separated’ have increasingly been used to describe British society in recent months after the divisive campaign over whether to remain in the EU. Journalists now speak with louder voices about a geographical divide between North and South; London and the rest of the Britain; rural and urban. Prior to Brexit,… Continue reading Reuniting the nation: can the Victorians show us how to settle a segregated society?
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Friday 15th July 2016 10.00-4.30 Geffrye Museum, London This one day symposium will explore the ways in which households were made, conceived and experienced as religious spaces in modern Britain. Religious faith was not tied only to formal sacred spaces in this period. The home also acted as an important…
When I was 15 I got my first proper job in the local fish and chip shop. With my Record of Achievement and newly minted National Insurance card I was interviewed and given a job that paid better than my daily newspaper round. Donning blue and white shirt and paper hat, I scooped chips and… Continue reading Smelling the Victorian chippy
For me, one of the hardest things about doing archival research is knowing that the collections I am consulting are mere fragments of what they would once have been. Often the absences are as striking as what remains: where are the letters of the other correspondent? Where are the photographs mentioned in that autobiography or… Continue reading Hints and fragments of an archive
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