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Victorian Studies Centre Spring Seminar Series 2015

Read about our Spring Seminar Series 2015, featuring a fascinating range of papers and topics.

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2014 Victorian Studies Centre Annual Lecture: Dr Matthew Sweet, ‘The Victorian World: Prison to Playground’

The Victorian Studies Centre welcomes writer and radio presenter Matthew Sweet, who will give our annual lecture for 2014 on ‘The Victorian World: Prison to Playground’.

Shakespeare at 450

“You must live drawn by your own sweet skill”: Remembering Shakespeare in Victorian Stratford-upon-Avon

In the first of a series of posts on Shakespeare in the Victorian age to celebrate the Bard’s 450th birthday, Dr Anjna Chouhan revisits the tercentenary of 1864 – and discusses how Shakespeare’s birthplace became the centre of Victorian celebrations of the playwright.

Spring Seminar Series

Victorian Studies Spring Seminar Series 2014

The Victorian Studies Centre is pleased to announce the programme for this year’s Spring Seminar Series, beginning on 12th February.

Crimea Appeal

A Sore Sight: Britain’s Crumbling Crimean Memorials and the Campaign to Restore Them

In a year when the nation will be remembering the First World War, have we forgotten about Victorian Britain’s major conflict? In this post, Rachel Anchor writes about the long history of public neglect of the Crimean War and its memorials – and the campaign now under way to address it.

Charles Dickens, Christmas Ghost Stories, and Victorian Magic Lantern Shows

In this special Victorian Christmas post, Jonathan Potter discusses the connection between Dickens’s seasonal ghost stories, nineteenth-century visual technologies, and magic lantern entertainments.

December 9, 2013 in Research Blog.

Nineteenth-Century Eugenic Ideology in BBC’s Ripper Street: ‘Am I Not Monstrous?’

Ruth Ashton reviews a recent episode of BBC’s Victorian crime drama Ripper Street, discussing the show’s representation of disability, heredity, and eugenic ideology in the late nineteenth century.

November 28, 2013 in TV/Film Review.

Victorian Studies Annual Lecture 2013: Prof Kathryn Hughes on George Eliot

The annual Victorian Studies lecture this year will be given by Prof. Kathryn Hughes (University of East Anglia) with a lecture entitled ‘Biography and Body Parts: The Mysterious Case of George Eliot’s Right Hand’. Click here for more details.

November 11, 2013 in Public Lecture.

Special Event with guest speaker Dr Saswati Halder on George Eliot and ‘Green Space’

The Victorian Studies Centre will host a special seminar with guest speaker Saswati Halder of Jadavpur University, who will be speaking about ‘The Wilderness of Green Space: George Eliot’s Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss’.

September 2, 2013 in Event.

Conference Report – Charting the Crimean War: Contexts, Nationhood, Afterlives

PhD researcher Rachel Anchor provides a report of the recent conference ‘Charting the Crimean War: Context, Nationhood, Afterlives’, a collaboration between the University of Leicester and the National Army Museum in London.

July 19, 2013 in Conference Report.

“Against the Errors and Corruptions of Rome”: Shakespeare and the Victorian Anti-Catholics – Doctoral Inaugural Lecture, 13th March 2013

Victorian Studies Centre PhD graduate Dr. Anjna Chouhan provides one of this year’s doctoral inaugural lectures, on the subject of Shakespeare and Victorian Anti-Catholicism.

March 6, 2013 in Event.

‘Disraeli: The Romance of Politics’ – Book Launch and Public Lecture

The Victorian Studies Centre is pleased to host a book launch and public lecture by Prof. Robert O’Kell to mark the release of his monograph ‘Disraeli: The Romance of Politics’.

February 11, 2013 in Event.

Call for Papers: Charting the Crimean War: Contexts, Nationhood, Afterlives – Friday 28th June 2013, National Army Museum, London

The University of Leicester will host a conference on the legacy of the Crimean War in collaboration with the National Army Museum, London. Read the call for papers here.

February 11, 2013 in Call for Papers.

Victorian Studies Spring Seminar Programme Announced

The Victorian Studies Centre is delighted to announce the programme for our upcoming annual Victorian Studies Spring Seminar series, featuring papers on Victorian India, Socialism in the nineteenth century, and Oscar Wilde.

January 9, 2013 in Event.

Conference Report: ‘Victorian Persistence’, Université Paris Diderot

Rachel Anchor provides a report of the recent conference on ‘Victorian Persistence’, held at Université Paris Diderot.

December 12, 2012 in Conference Report.

Call for Papers: Nineteenth Century Numbers: British Association for Victorian Studies Annual Conference 2013

BAVS announce the call for papers for their 2013 annual conference on the subject of ‘Nineteenth-Century Numbers’. Read about the conference here.

November 27, 2012 in Call for Papers.

Victorian Studies Annual Lecture 2012: Prof. Peter Mandler – ‘The Creative Destruction of the Victorian City’

Read a report of our recent annual Victorian Studies lecture, delivered by Prof. Peter Mandler (University of Cambridge) on ‘The “Creative Destruction” of the Victorian City’.

November 26, 2012 in Event.

Picturing Nineteenth-Century Authors: from Austen to Brontë

Senior lecturer in Romantic and Victorian Literature Dr. Julian North discusses her current research on portraits of nineteenth-century authors – including Jane Austen, Lord Byron, and Charlotte Brontë.

November 24, 2012 in Research Blog.

Welcome to the Victorian Studies Centre Blog

Thanks for visiting our new blog! Read all about the exciting research and events taking place at the Centre.

November 23, 2012 in Research Blog.

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The Victorian Studies Centre at Leicester, established in 1966, is home to a vibrant interdisciplinary research community, comprising members of the University's English, History, and Art and Film departments. The blog will hopefully be a reflection of the breadth and diversity of our research interests. We hope that you enjoy reading.

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  • Victorian Studies Centre Spring Seminar Series 2015 February 18, 2015
  • 2014 Victorian Studies Centre Annual Lecture: Dr Matthew Sweet, ‘The Victorian World: Prison to Playground’ November 10, 2014
  • “You must live drawn by your own sweet skill”: Remembering Shakespeare in Victorian Stratford-upon-Avon January 20, 2014
  • Victorian Studies Spring Seminar Series 2014 January 17, 2014
  • A Sore Sight: Britain’s Crumbling Crimean Memorials and the Campaign to Restore Them January 11, 2014

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