Blogging about Hacking the Book

Jim Mussell (University of Birmingham) Hacking the Book’ is a third-year undergraduate module run in the English Department at the University of Birmingham.  The module came about after a discussion on Twitter between myself and a colleague, Oliver Mason in the summer of 2010.  I was at a conference in Edinburgh and had just tweeted that I thought lecturers needed to ‘integrate digital humanities research and teaching in undergrad classes.’  Oliver’s response was to suggest that we put on a

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T. D. Griggs: Historical Fiction and Story Telling

T. D. Griggs Research. It’s the first thing readers ask me about. How much did I do? How long did it take? Am I an expert on the period? I’m always flattered by such questions. They mean I’ve got away with it. Because I am not an historian. History is not my business. Storytelling is. My latest novel, DISTANT THUNDER (T.D.Griggs Orion Books), is set in the 1890s. I’m attracted by the huge confidence of Victorian Britain, in contrast to

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Teaching and Learning Showcase

Many of us often use the summer months to create new courses and revise existing ones for the new academic year. To facilitate this work and encourage productive conversations around the teaching of nineteenth-century culture, the Journal of Victorian Culture Online (JVC) will be hosting a Teaching and Learning Showcase to feature this work.  In August and September, we would like to showcase posts that explore the imaginative and innovative ways we teach Victorian studies. Blog topics could include: Digital

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All Things Blogging

We’ve been really excited by the level and range of blogs that formed May’s bloggers fair, which ended with Lucie being invited to chair the ‘Transforming Objects’ conference roundtable on this subject. A summary of the round table can be found here. We would like to thank everyone that participated and we hoped you enjoyed discovering what was out there! You can now download, through IFirst, two articles by Amber J. Regis (Early Career Victorianists and Social Media) and Rohan Maitzen (Scholarship 2.0) that also consider the way

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Conference Report: Transforming Objects, 28-29 May 2012, Northumbria University

Nicole Bush (Northumbria) This two-day conference hosted papers that addressed the transformation of objects and the transformations effected by objects from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Object theory and discourses of materiality largely engage with objects as stable items of a permanent nature; as the conference co-organiser, I was keen to attract papers which sought to address those moments which slip through the gaps of such readings and explore the process of transformation and the between-ness or not fully

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Are You a Believer Now?

Someone at the University of California, Davis was clearly taken with Steven Moffat’s second season of Sherlock.  So much so that they took to participating in the #ibelieveinsherlockholmes meme, which Jeanette Laredo wrote about here for JVC Online about a month ago and which has taken to actions of world-wide street graffiti, like the ones at UC Davis pictured below and recorded on this tumblr.  Now that the second season has aired in the United States as well as in

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A Blog on Blogging: Reflecting on the ‘Transforming Objects’ Roundtable

I was recently invited by Nicole Bush (Northumbria) to chair a roundtable discussion at the ‘Transforming Objects’ conference on ‘Single- and Multi-Authored Blogging Models’ (28-29 May 2012). The speakers were Martin Paul Eve (Sussex), Kieran Fenby-Hulse (Bradford), Charlotte Mathieson (Warwick) and James Mussell (Birmingham). I must admit, I felt both honoured and daunted to be chairing the session. The participants are seasoned bloggers and very experienced in using a variety of blogging models. Some of them, particularly Charlotte and James,

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Bloggers Fair: North East Nineteenth Century

“North East Nineteenth Century” is the website for the North East Postgraduate Research Group for the Long Nineteenth Century, a group based disciplinarily within literary studies and led by postgraduates from Newcastle, Northumbria and Durham universities. We are a regional research community of postgraduate students working on diverse aspects of the literature, art, culture, and society of the long nineteenth century. Our website is an online resource containing information about members, upcoming events and calls for papers (including our own

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Bloggers Fair: Lynne Wilson’s Scotland’s History Uncovered

Scotland’s History Uncovered is a blog which focuses on the social history of Scotland, concentrating on the Victorian era.  The object of the blog in essence, is to give an enjoyable learning experience for people of all levels of historical knowledge.  Having always had an interest in Victorian history, I wrote a book entitled ‘A Year in Victorian Edinburgh’ to try and give the reader a real feel for life in this time.  From there, I decided to develop a blog which I

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Bloggers Fair: The Floating Academy

The Floating Academy is a blogging collective. We take our name from the slang expression used to describe the Hulks, those notorious merchant and naval ships that were converted into prisons to ease overcrowded gaols between the late eighteenth and  mid-nineteenth centuries. More specifically, we take inspiration from the reference to the Hulks that can be found in Dickens’s Great Expectations, during which Pip is threatened with transport to the Hulks on account of his irrepressible habit of asking questions. We

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