Digital Victorians

Digital Victorians @ English department, Liverpool John Moores University, led by @HelenRogers19c

[Marina Amaral @marinamaral2]

Speaking of spying cameras, these photos here, taken in the streets of Oslo in the 1890s, come from one such camera hidden in the buttonhole of Carl Størmer, a 19-year-old student at the Royal Frederick University.

He secretly took around 500 of these.

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[British Library Learning @BL_Learning]

Check out our free range of short films on literature in context - perfect for online learning.

From Gender in 19th-century Britain to Features of The Gothic, William Blake's radicalism, The Origins of A Christmas Carol... & much more.

Just click here: https://t.co/7LyMgqwpip

[Williamson Art Gallery & Birkenhead Priory @WilliamsonArt_]

"Birkenhead from the River Mersey, Wirral c. 1830" oil on canvas (artist unknown) and another wonderful discovery from our ongoing audit #birkenhead #wirral #rivermersey #localhistorymatters #galleryaudit

[British Library @britishlibrary]

We had the privilege of digitising six of #CharlesDickens personal reading copies for @DickensMuseum. He used these annotated books on his reading tours 1858-1870. Find out how the digitised books will be used. @BL_Digitisation
🔗 https://t.co/XdzNita03d

[Trinity Long Room Hub @TLRHub]

The Victorians taught children about consumerism – and we can learn from them too https://t.co/ItWPsM1lDV via @ConversationUK

[Donna Young @HerbariumDonna]

Beautiful primroses self-seeded amongst the gravestones of Liverpool Quaker burial ground.

[Dan Jackson @northumbriana]

These US daguerreotypes were taken between 1844-6 - years before the Irish Famine, the Great Exhibition & the Crimean War. Extraordinary

[Victorian Web @VictorianWeb]

#OTD 1859, 1st part of Dickens's Tale of Two Cities appeared in All the Year Round https://t.co/adBl8bH99Y

[National Galleries of Scotland @NatGalleriesSco]

Hill & Adamson were profound photography pioneers. #APerfectChemistry reveals their collaborative ingenuity https://t.co/mReFvjtlxS

[Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery @BM_AG]

Did anyone get to the beach today? And was it warm enough to be there? Blackpool Beach as it was in 1840 when it was painted by David Cox.

[Edward T. O'Donnell inthepastlane.bsky.social @InThePastLane]

Startling colorized images of the American Civil War brought back to life by US artist https://t.co/fGJZ579crD #ushistory #CivilWar

[MacCocktail (@MacCocktail.bsky.social) @MacCocktail]

On this day, April 30, 1859, "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens was first published in serial form in a literary magazine.

[Dr Billie-Gina @Billie_Gina]

Just wrote another blog on the film Albert Nobbs - great film and I'm sad I've only just came across it! https://t.co/6YXZLz0S4h

[Helen Rogers @Conviction19c]

New jobs in digital media @DigiVics @writing__lives https://t.co/8wbZ4einPU

[Digital Victorians @DigiVics]

Haunting photograph https://t.co/UfBHac1Htb

[Rick Polad @RickPolad]

Hannah Stilley - 94 in 1840. Earliest known person to be photographed.

[Digital Victorians @DigiVics]

What happens when you start reading Digital Victorian periodicals by @digitalpigeons @JofVictCulture https://t.co/2JnkXvi24b https://t.co/uEB1rC6Wwd

[Digital Victorians @DigiVics]

Lots of material on the Great Exhibition & The V&A @V_and_A https://t.co/mSLHC6tJIs

[Helen Rogers @Conviction19c]

My goodness! Florence Nightingale greeting dear old comrades of Balaclava 1890 @WellcomeLibrary @FlorenceMuseum https://t.co/OtABHpHZIn