Six (free!) Dark Fantasy Novellas for Halloween from Tor.com
1. Red as Blood and White as Bone by Theodora Goss A dark fantasy about a kitchen girl obsessed with fairy…
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“What of her glass without her?” Prismatic Desire & Auto-Erotic Anxiety in the Art & Poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Do check out my article in the latest issue of the Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies – “What of Her Glass…
Growing your PhD Research
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
The botanical clock, or ‘Watch of Flora’, was a garden plan hypothesised by the eighteenth-century naturalist Carl Linnaeus. This ‘pretty fancy…
Charles Kingsley’s The Water Babies and The Origins Debate.
Linley Sambourne’s cartoon ‘Man is but a Worm’, appearing in Punch in 1882 in depicts the evolution of man; from…
The Strange Story of Anna Kingsford
[ 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
As an addendum to my previous post that celebrated the ‘haptics’ of examining physical materials, I thought I would…
Weekly Roundup of Curiosities #2
The Constructing Scientific Communities (@Conscicom) project and the Hunterian Museum have co-curated an exhibition on the history of vaccination, which…
Georgiana Houghton, the Victorian Artist who Channeled the Spirits of the Dead
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
Browsing through the bookshelves of your modern university library – have you ever had a look at one of the conspicuously…