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Showcasing bicentenaries of the generation born 200 years ago as exact contemporaries of Queen Victoria. Tweets by @KingstoneHelen & @TrevBroughton1

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Our #Born1819 work is complete! All the contributions are now out - read for FREE (for now) at academic.oup.com/jvc/issue/2…. Thanks followers for your interest in the project!
Jnl.VictorianCulture@JofVictCulture30 Dec 2019
The #LatestIssue of JVC (24.4) is now available! All sorts of delights inside, including our Graduate Essay Prize winner, a free access Roundtable on 'Victoria's Victorians', and much more! Read here: academic.oup.com/jvc/issue/2…
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One more quick pop-up tweet from the 1819 cohort: this @BBCRadio4 drama on George Eliot @GeorgeEliotLove, G. H. Lewes and Marian's brother Isaac Evans was rather lovely. Available online and on @BBCSounds: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h26…

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Marian and George

The transformation of Marian Evans into George Eliot.

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If you're interested in #generations, generational identities and inter-generational dynamics, one offshoot of the project is the new @GenerationsNet network - follow us there for some new stuff in the new year...
A little snippet from Queen Victoria's journals! To find out more, head over to our latest blog post by David Tomkins of @bodleianlibs! jvc.oup.com/2019/12/17/david…
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#NewPost alert! @david_tomkins on Victoria & Albert's residences and their search for a domestic idyll. It's the 3rd of a 4-pt series, ‘Just Like Us’, exploring how Victoria’s journals reveal her would-be-middle-class identity. Enjoy now on the JVC blog: jvc.oup.com/2019/12/17/david…
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Merry Christmas to all the #Victorianists out there, we hope you had a good one! Lots of exciting content coming to JVC online in the new year - watch this space! Meanwhile, you can enjoy @david_tomkins posts on Queen Victoria #BornIn1819 on the site now! jvc.oup.com/
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Born #onthisday 1819 George Denman, Liberal MP Tiverton 1859-65 & 1866-72. Rowed twice for Cambridge in the Boat Race. He left the Commons when appointed as a judge. According to one account, ‘He looked a model Judge. But he was never quite so good a Judge as he looked’ @Born1819
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Our final #Born1819 tweet marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hugh McCalmont Cairns (later Lord Cairns). He was Conservative MP for Belfast 1852-66. In the Lords he served as lord chancellor, 1868 and 1874-80. He died in 1885. @Born1819 Image © NPG.
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Another piece in our @Born1819 jigsaw: Victoria's Journals editor @david_tomkins on Victoria part 2
Jnl.VictorianCulture@JofVictCulture10 Dec 2019
#NewPost alert! @david_tomkins on the prosaic domesticity of Queen Victoria's Christmas image-making. It's the 2nd of a 4-pt series, ‘Just Like Us’, exploring how Victoria’s journals reveal her would-be-middle-class identity. Enjoy it now on the JVC blog: jvc.oup.com/2019/12/10/david…
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Today marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ambrose Lethbridge Goddard, MP Cricklade 1847-68 & 1874-80. His father, also Ambrose, had sat for the same constituency, 1837-41. The family were lords of the manor of Swindon. #Born1819 @Born1819
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The last piece of the #Born1819 jigsaw: Queen #Victoria and Prince Albert! David Tomkins @david_tomkins of @bodleianlibs starts a blog post series on how the royal couple presented themselves as a middle-class family - with a bonus #ChristmasTree. jvc.oup.com/2019/12/03/david…
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Look at the determination of that girlie with the spade! John Leech illustrating as S. R. Hole #born1819 waxes lyrical about #Scarborough @Welcome2Yorks
Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry@poetry_digital26 Nov 2019
This week we feature DVPP authors, translators & illustrators who were #born1819. Samuel Reynolds Hole (1819-1904), Dean of Rochester: "Scarborough—1859" (Once a Week 17 Sept 1859) illustrated by John Leech (details). #VictorianPoetry
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Continuing to feature DVPP people #born1819. Not all the highly circulating authors became canonical! Frances Parthenhope Verney (1819-1890) was the sister of Florence Nightingale & a genealogist, poet, & novelist. This poem was published in Good Words (1875). #VictorianPoetry
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Born in 1819 retweeted
Ruskinland@ruskinland22 Nov 2019
For people to be happy at work, #JohnRuskin wrote in 1851, “They must be fit for it; They must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it.” A starting point for @andrewtghill‘s #GPDF19 panel on human potential later ft.com/content/f0bff442-1d92…
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I clicked through and was really pleased to see the article covers the #JohnRuskin #Manchester #Gothic talk @DaleGothic96 and I did @GaskellsHouse in October. #Ruskin200
RAH! Manchester Met@mmu_RAH21 Nov 2019
Read this special article by @hauntMCR on 'How the biggest ever Gothic Manchester Festival brought ‘Gothic Times’ to the city and beyond for 2019' @gothicmmu #gothicmcr2019 #gothictimes 👉 visitmanchester.com/ideas-an…
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Onto the next #ge200 event of today @RSLiterature ‘what’s so great about George Eliot’
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Mr Disraeli, as had also Ld Malmesbury, spoke of the great difficulty of The Lead in the H[ou]se of L[or]ds, Ld Cairns wishing to give it up, & Ld Salisbury not being willing to act with the others. #OTD #OnThisDay #victorian #twitterstorians #disraeli #politicalhistory
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Replying to @JofVictCulture @rmwdickinson @Born1819
Here's the link academic.oup.com/jvc/advance…

Ruskin and a Generation Worth Remembering

‘There are a few, a very few persons born in each generation, whose words are worth hearing, whose art is worth seeing’.1 So declared Victorian cultural cr

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Julius Bryant gives a free talk at the @V_and_A on 4 Dec that looks at items in the collection loved or loathed by John Ruskin. #Ruskin200 Details here: vam.ac.uk/event/ObXZoe27/lun…

Masterpieces or Misdemenours? John Ruskin’s much-loved and most-loathed works of art - Talk at · V&A

Join expert curators and inspiring speakers for our free weekly lunchtime lectures.

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So delightful hearing Juliet Stevenson talking about finding voices when recording Middlemarch audio book @RSLiterature #GE200 but is it Cas -saw-bon or Cassubon??
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