Spring seminar series 2014

Localism in late-Victorian and Edwardian London: the development of the Minet Estate in Lambeth c. 1870-1910

• 12 February 2014
• Speaker: Dr David Krohl (Department of Engineering and the Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University)

Sir John Clayton Cowell, Queen Victoria's military gatekeeper

• 26 February 2014
• Speaker: Dr Alastair Massey (National Army Museum)

The Lost Leipzig Letters: Charles Dickens, Bernhard Tauchnitz and the German Connection

• 4 March 2014
• Speaker: Dr Dietmar Boehnke (Institut für Anglistik, University of Leipzig)

Doctoral presentations

• 12 March 2014
• Speaker: Derek Ball
• 'The mathematics underlying the two parables in George Eliot's Middlemarch'
• Speaker: Lisa Coar
• Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Assessing the Victorian Male's Body Dysmorphic Disorder
• Speaker: Katie Heathman
• The priest and his village: Charles Marson and the Folk Revival

“Neither sun nor stars appeared”: nineteenth-century navigations of city and sea in fiction and personal writings

• 26 March 2014
• Speaker: Dr Sophie Gilmartin (Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London)

Victorian “blockbuster”: The “Fair Women” Exhibition of 1894

• 7 May 2014
• Speaker: Dr Meaghan Clarke (Department of Art History, Sussex University)

Victorian Studies in/and the 3 Cities Consortium

• 21 May 2014
• Midlands Three Cities Doctoral Training Program