Annual lecture archive

Browse some of our past annual lectures in the Centre for Victorian Studies below.

Country Walks through Colonial Britain: A Labourer's Walk Through Dorset

• 6 March 2024
• Speaker: Professor Corinne Fowler, University of Leicester

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