The Centre for Victorian Studies
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