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Six (free!) Dark Fantasy Novellas for Halloween from Tor.com
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Six (free!) Dark Fantasy Novellas for Halloween from Tor.com

Posted on October 3, 2019by Rosalind White

1. Red as Blood and White as Bone by Theodora Goss A dark fantasy about a kitchen girl obsessed with fairy…

“What of her glass without her?” Prismatic Desire & Auto-Erotic Anxiety in the Art & Poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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“What of her glass without her?” Prismatic Desire & Auto-Erotic Anxiety in the Art & Poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Posted on May 22, 2019by Rosalind White

Do check out my article in the latest issue of the Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies – “What of Her Glass…

Growing your PhD Research
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Growing your PhD Research

Posted on May 31, 2016by Rosalind White

In the first year of your PhD, thoughts often feel scattered. Your PhD floats around unanchored and sometimes it feels like…

The Victorian Botanical Clock
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The Victorian Botanical Clock

Posted on May 24, 2016by Rosalind White

The botanical clock, or ‘Watch of Flora’, was a garden plan hypothesised by the eighteenth-century naturalist Carl Linnaeus. This ‘pretty fancy…

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Charles Kingsley’s The Water Babies and The Origins Debate.

Posted on May 19, 2016by Rosalind White

Linley Sambourne’s cartoon ‘Man is but a Worm’, appearing in Punch in 1882 in depicts the evolution of man; from…

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The Strange Story of Anna Kingsford

Posted on May 18, 2016by Rosalind White

 [ illustrations ‘Cold Wind’ & ‘Fake it till you make it’  by Rovina Cai] As the only Victorian medical student at…

Digitised Curiosities: Unlocking the Senses of the Past
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Digitised Curiosities: Unlocking the Senses of the Past

Posted on May 13, 2016by Rosalind White

  As an addendum to my previous post that celebrated the ‘haptics’ of examining physical materials, I thought I would…

Weekly Roundup of Curiosities #2
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Weekly Roundup of Curiosities #2

Posted on May 1, 2016by Rosalind White

The Constructing Scientific Communities (@Conscicom) project and the Hunterian Museum have co-curated an exhibition on the history of vaccination, which…

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Georgiana Houghton, the Victorian Artist who Channeled the Spirits of the Dead

Posted on April 28, 2016by Rosalind White

  Georgiana Houghton was a spiritualist medium who was trained in classical art but gave up painting after the death…

Liberating the Library: The Hidden Gems On Your University Shelves
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Liberating the Library: The Hidden Gems On Your University Shelves

Posted on April 23, 2016by Rosalind White

Browsing through the bookshelves of your modern university library – have you ever had a look at one of the conspicuously…

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