Research Trip to Philly
Thanks to the Royal Historical Society and the Bibliographical Society who provided a modest amount of funding, I spent a week and a half...
Speaking in Sheffield about Late Victorian Book Illustration
I'm going to be giving a public talk at Sheffield Central Library on Thursday, 1 December from 10:30-11:30. The event is free, but...
New Online Resource
In Victorian London, ‘woodpeckers’ or ‘peckers’ was slang for wood engravers. At this time, wood engraving was the medium of mass...
BAVS Conference
I spent the last two days in Cardiff at the British Association of Victorian Studies, held at Cardiff University. Because of the...
Robert Chambers spotted at Down House
We spent one day of our family vacation with the kids in Kent at Down House, the former residence of Charles Darwin, now run by English...
William Chambers's American trip on podcast
There is a podcast that I listen to called This American Life. The latest podcast is about Captain's logs and "neutral language" which...