Char Bookham

Nineteenth Century Historian- circuses, animals and domestic spaces|| 🥀 Vampire, Romantics and Oscar Wilde Enthusiast || Royal Holloway & Oxford

[Char Bookham @CharBookham]

@LearNonsense Congratulations!! 🥳

[Char Bookham @CharBookham]

@diddykeats Happy Belated Birthday!! :))

[Humanities Division @OxHumanities]

🎉Huge congratulations to @AlicePurk, @rachel_delman and their team whose Heritage Pathways programme received the Support for Students Award at yesterday's Vice-Chancellor’s Awards.

[Char Bookham @CharBookham]

@TomCrewe1 congratulations!!

[Grace @GraceFMarks]

I bought an 1896 annual of The Strand Magazine from an antique bookshop today. Mostly because I saw this gentleman and fell in love with him instantly. Who said the Victorians weren't amused?!

[National Portrait Gallery @NPGLondon]

We're celebrating the start of LGBTQ+ History Month with our #OnlineArtExchange pick!

Radclyffe Hall was a British author and queer icon. Her novels gave visibility to the LGBTQ+ community in the early 20th century.

#LGBTQplusHM @artukdotorg

🎨by Charles Buchel, 1918 © NPG

[The Long Victorian @longvictorian2]

Portrait of Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland (1904) by John Singer Sargent (American artist, lived 1856–1925). A green, #floral dress, with laurel leaf tiara on her red hair, with a low-cut neckline. The Duchess emerging from the natural world behind. #FashionHistory

[Paintings of London @PaintingsLondon]

'London Visitors' (1874) by James Tissot

(Toledo Museum of Art)

[Char Bookham @CharBookham]

Me at the start of 2023: feeling the post-grad crisis, saving up for a masters and volunteering at old houses to feel connected to history again

Me at the end: partway through a History masters at Oxford, finding joy in my research and passions, oh and I dyed my hair 😂

[Coffin Boffin @DrSamGeorge1]

VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS CARDS. After all nothing quite says Christmas like an amorous root vegetable, a group of pyromaniac sparrows or a grotesque-looking teapot lady!! #GothicAdvent

[Clare Stainthorp @ClareGS87]

The Winter Issue of the @BAVS_UK Newsletter is out now (and our longest yet)! It's packed with reviews, reports, CFPs, and other things of Victorianist interest 📚 Huge thanks to everyone who contributed!
https://t.co/wAFeAhu7VK

[Keats-Shelley Assoc. | ksaacomm.bsky.social @KSAAcomm]

A surprising new discovery about Keats: the poet was investigated by Italian police shortly before his death. More here: https://t.co/7MvsjuHOKE

[Keats-Shelley House @Keats_Shelley]

We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of the British poet, Benjamin Zephaniah. Remembered as the people’s poet, Zephaniah's work was dedicated to political injustice.
One of his great heroes was P.B. Shelley, admired for his radicalism and talent: https://t.co/qAwuHmOiRZ

[Matthew Sangster @MJRSangster]

Very strange that Fantasy: Realms of Imagination, which we began working on four years ago, has now transformed from hundreds of plans and drafts into its physical form @britishlibrary. Exhibition open until 25 February 2024 - more details here: https://t.co/0I9JPIjev7.

[Robert Houghton @RobEHoughton]

Playing the Middle Ages, my volume with @ylva_grufstedt, @Mariana_J_Lopez, @CooksterKC, Gordon Smith, @LiamMcLeod_e, @sagathain, @AsinusDocet, @NeilNagwekar, @QuijanoPhD, @markusmindrebo, Patrick Butler, and @BlairApgar is out now from @BloomsburyAcad!

https://t.co/lEglqRR8e3

[The Long Victorian @longvictorian2]

Portrait of Miss Anita Stewart (1908) by Giovanni Boldini (Italian artist, lived 1842–1931). American socialite and heiress who married the grandson of King Miguel I of Portugal (thereby acquiring a royal title). She lived until 1977.

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

#OTD 1819 Keats writes to his brother

"I have pass’d my time in reading, writing and fretting – the last I intend to give up and stick to the other two"

[Han O'Flanagan smaugish.bsky.social @HanOFlanaga1]

Oh hey, my talk with @GothicRomancing is coming up in 3 months! I'll be posting the ghost stories I'll be discussing over the next few weeks so you can prepare, if you like! https://t.co/HCWOkld5ns

[Dr Abigail Boucher @DrAbbyBoucher]

Jonathan Harker is taking some real (well deserved) shrapnel in @VictorianMasc's paper: 'He's not the brightest spark, who takes way too long to realise he's the human equivalent of Deliveroo'.
#NotesFromTheNile