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
I recently gave a paper at the IHR Studies for the Centre of Home entitled ‘Settling at home: Class, gender and domesticity in the Settlement House, 1880-1914’. You can listen to this paper here: https://www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/settling-home-class-gender-and-domesticity-settlement-house-1880-1914 Here is my accompanying Powerpoint: Settling at Home
This is a version of a paper I gave at the Warwick conference on World Victorians: full title ‘Translocal Settling: In search of the ‘local’ in the University Settlement Movement’. I am at the early stages of developing these ideas so I would love to have some comments & replies beyond the conference. At a… Continue reading Translocal Settling in Cardiff
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 site for formal and informal… Continue reading Household Gods: Religious Domesticity in Britain, 1700 to the present day
Journal of Victorian Culture (JVC) Online was established in 2009 as an interactive companion to the Journal of Victorian Culture (JVC). It is an innovative departure from static academic journal websites. My article considers how blogging complements traditional publishing. It argues that multi-authored sites, like JVC Online, offer scholars the chance to disseminate their research… Continue reading New Article: Blogging the Victorians
This post was inspired by a Twitter conversation… What does participation in the university classroom mean? I know that for me it once meant talking about and discussing a reading and then a bunch of primary sources. Have my ideas changed? No, not really. But I’m changing what I think participation means in a wider sense… Continue reading Notes on Seminar Participation
I’ve spent the last of couple of weeks re-reading academic books and articles that I first read when I was an MA and PhD student. It’s been fun, tiring and unnerving. I’m mainly reading and pondering for a book chapter that I’ve been asked to write for Jane Hamlett’s edited collection on the nineteenth-century home.… Continue reading Re-reading: A personal note
by Harry Coughlan For my Independent Study I choose to write and record a song taken from an imaginary Music Hall production titled ‘Classless Society’. The rationale behind writing and performing a song, as a mock primary source from the Victorian era, was the fact that the Music Hall became such a prominent pastime in… Continue reading Harry Coughlan, ‘Slum Girl’ Song
by Billie-Gina Thomason. Billie has recently graduated from LJMU with a History and English degree. She will be returning to LJMU next year to take the MRes in History. She plans to research trans* identity in the nineteenth and twentieth century. I chose to write a diary for a creative portfolio in my Victorian Cities… Continue reading Billie-Gina Thomason, Creating a Diary of Thomas Son
By Andrew Madden. Andrew has recently graduated from LJMU with a BA in History. For this assignment Lucie asked us to create an output that had some relevance to the course. My first thought was to create a collage on the changing face of Liverpool, from the Victorian Era until the present day. But then I… Continue reading Andrew Madden, Board Game Antics
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