Annual lecture archive
Browse some of our past annual lectures in the Centre for Victorian Studies below.
Arthur Conan Doyle and the Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer
- 16 November 2022
- Speaker: Shrabani Basu
Dickens, 'Madness', and Marriage
- 20 November 2019
- Speaker: Professor John Bowen, University of York
Detecting Victorian Crime
- 6 December 2017
- Speaker: Kate Summerscale
How George Eliot Came to Write Fiction
- 30 November 2016
- Speaker: Professor Rosemary Ashton OBE, Emeritus Quain Professor of English Language and Literature, University College London
The Victorian World: Prison to Playground
- 19 November 2014
- Speaker: Dr Matthew Sweet
The Mysterious Case of George Eliot's Right Hand
- 20 November 2013
- Speaker: Professor Kathryn Hughes, University of East Anglia
Faust Comes to Town: 'Creative Destruction' in the Victorian City
- 21 November 2012
- Speaker: Peter Mandler, Professor of Modern Cultural History, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
Models of Authorship: George Eliot and Margaret Oliphant
- 26 November 2011
- Speaker: Joanne Shattock, Emeritus Professor, Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Leicester
'One Human Heart': Elizabeth Gaskell's Wordsworthian Vein
- 17 November 2010
- Speaker: Jenny Uglow
Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing
- 25 November 2009
- Speaker: Michael Slater, Emeritus Professor of Victorian Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London
The Haunted Gallery: Enchanted Pictures and Statues in Visual Media c.1900
- 21 November 2007
- Speaker: Lynda Nead, Pevsner Professor of History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London
Darwin Loves You
- 21 November 2006
- Speaker: George Levine, Rutgers University, New Jersey