This one's not about the #Dickens Code , but definitely worth celebrating... 🎉

Edinburgh University Press Companion to Charles #Dickens and the Arts has just been published!📖

Find out more 👇edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinb…

Huge thanks to our contributors and my brilliant co-editor Juliet John 👏

Look what came today!

My great-grandfather George Puech Shore, who wrote in Urdu and Persian. My father wrote and spoke Urdu and loved reading out the poetry to us, but it is sadly incomprehensible to me.

Just back from “Now You See Us”, a big Tate show featuring work by 100 women artists who painted in Britain between 1520 and 1920. Plenty of totally unfamiliar names as well as better known ones - and quite a few about whom I’d like to know more, which is presumably the point.

Engineered by Eugenius Birch, Scarborough pier opened in 1869. It was 1000 feet in length with a shelter at the pier-head for concerts and refreshments. After a series of disasters and low visitor numbers a storm in January 1905 saw the pier virtually destroyed.

A lovely blog on Lizzie Siddal by one of our fantastic students on the module LIT4005: 'Working on the Nineteenth Century'. 🖼️👀

Interesting to note that the desiner Christopher Dresser was a botanist. Perhaps should have realised sooner!! victorianweb.org/victorian/art/…

#OTD 1866, death of Pauline Trevelyan, friend and patron of the Pre-Raphaelites: #Ruskin had been called to her bedside in Neuchâtel. This is her portrait by William Bell Scott in 1864 victorianweb.org/painting/scott…

Sir William Henry Barlow was born #OnThisDay 1812. He was engineer for St Pancras Station, designed Second Tay Bridge and completed Brunel's Clifton suspension bridge with Sir John Hawkshaw

Foliage, Flowers, and Seed-vessel of the Opium Poppy 1870s #MarianneNorth

Nice to see this! By William Crossland, the architect of Royal Holloway Royal Holloway Art & Culture RHUL Centre for Victorian Studies victorianweb.org/art/architectu… (would love to visit!)

Coming Soon! 🥳

Our next exhibition will be 'Faithful Companions: Charles Dickens & his Pets.'

Opening on 15th May, this fascinating exhibition will explore the animals in Dickens's life and literature, from his dogs and cats to his horses and ravens.

Interesting piece on the democratisation of the art-loving public in the 19c. 'There began to be a great talking about the Fine Arts': Victorian Art Criticism and the Rise of a Middle-Class Audience' by George Landow victorianweb.org/victorian/auth…

#Goodmorning ! #Didyouknow there was a controversial coloured bust of Queen Victoria? It was by Carlo Marochetti in 1855, an example of the current fashion for polychromy, and had a coffee-colour staining with gold-powdered hair #sculpture victorianweb.org/sculpture/maro…

The last seminar series was truly phenomenal and we really built a nice community of like-minded people around the graduate network. The research and work going on in Pre-Raphaelitism at the moment is incredible. Submit submit submit!

For #TudorThursday , a late-Victorian Tudor Revival block in Knightsbridge's Herbert Crescent, fabulously expensive to rent here. Just look at those chimneys! victorianweb.org/art/architectu…

Goodmorning! Born #OTD 1820, William Cave Thomas, a lifelong friend of Ford Madox Brown. Here's his 'Hope Cherishing the Drooping'—now it's getting warmer we shall all be doing this, but perhaps with a bit more protection from the sun! victorianweb.org/painting/thoma…

Have you heard of the St John's Wood Clique of artists, founded in 1862? It included George Dunlop Leslie, whose work you might know. Short read: victorianweb.org/painting/sjwcl…

#OTD 1853, Queen Victoria and family (7 children now!) went to lay the foundation stone of the Swiss Cottage in the children's garden at Osborne on the Isle of Wight. It was for the children—here's the teatable later, all laid out in readiness! victorianweb.org/history/victor…

20' x 28', sold at Christie's in 2013, much above estimate, for £73,875!