Household Gods: Religious Domesticity in Britain, 1700 to the present day

April 5, 2016July 14, 2016 lucindamatthewsjones2 Comments

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

New Article: Blogging the Victorians

February 1, 2016February 1, 2016 lucindamatthewsjonesLeave a comment

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

Notes on Seminar Participation

January 19, 2016October 4, 2019 lucindamatthewsjones1 Comment

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

Re-reading: A personal note

November 26, 2015 lucindamatthewsjonesLeave a comment

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

Harry Coughlan, ‘Slum Girl’ Song

September 14, 2015September 14, 2015 lucindamatthewsjonesLeave a comment

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

Billie-Gina Thomason, Creating a Diary of Thomas Son

September 11, 2015September 11, 2015 lucindamatthewsjonesLeave a comment

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

Andrew Madden, Board Game Antics

September 10, 2015September 10, 2015 lucindamatthewsjonesLeave a comment

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

Laura Fitzpatrick, Slumming Account & the Middle-Class imagination

September 10, 2015September 10, 2015 lucindamatthewsjones3 Comments

By Laura Fitzpatrick. Laura has recently graduated from Liverpool John Moores where she completed a dissertation on the Victorian circus and freak show performer. From next year she will be joining the University of Manchester where she plans to research disability, lesiure and performance in the 19th and 20th Centuries. She blogs here: lauralouisefitz.wordpress.com During the… Continue reading Laura Fitzpatrick, Slumming Account & the Middle-Class imagination

Students taking Ownership of Assessments: My Creative and Independent Project

September 9, 2015September 9, 2015 lucindamatthewsjonesLeave a comment

It’s funny how the things you end up really enjoy in teaching are the ones you have accidentally stumbled upon. This is certainly the case with the final assessment of my third-year Victorian Cities module. Having decided that the first two assessments for this module would be a 1,000 word source reflection (20%) and a… Continue reading Students taking Ownership of Assessments: My Creative and Independent Project

Teaching and Technology: Making Digital History event

July 27, 2015July 27, 2015 lucindamatthewsjonesLeave a comment

I wrote this a few months ago for our press office. I thought I would share it here. I also write a blog on this day for HistoryLab Plus, which you can read here. Lucinda Matthews-Jones (History) co-organised ‘Teaching and Technology: Making Digital History’ with History Lab Plus, the Institute of Historical Research’s network for… Continue reading Teaching and Technology: Making Digital History event