Senior Lecturer: English Lit (Lincoln). Ageing & masculinities in fiction c. 1800-1930; C19th valentines & ephemera. FRHistS. @alicecrossley.bsky.social
University of Lincoln, England
Joined February 2013
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My BRAND NEW BOOK spotted at the @blackwelloxford stand by @RoutledgeLit! Do recommend it for your university library! #BAVS2018 #proudauthoralert
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To settle a troublesome discourse, I have provided here the most faithful and poetic possible translation of the beginning of the Odyssey.
We male sex. We
complex. We
fake horse. We
off course. We
sail long. We
hear song. We
pig crew. We
home soon.
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We're delighted to announce that #BAVS2025 will be taking place on 23-25 July @UniofOxford
We hope you can join us to celebrate our 25th anniversary conference!
CfP information can be found here: english.web.ox.ac.uk/bavs202…
@BAVS_PGs
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Ever wondered about the history of Valentine's Day? Watch this interesting interview with University of Lincoln Senior Lecturer Dr @Alice_Crossley on Sunday Morning Live that aired last week. 💕
Watch on BBC iPlayer from 42.21 - 45.50 👉 lncn.ac/Valentines
Looking forward to giving a short talk today, 'Victorian Valentines: Naughty or Nice?' introducing @KateClanchy1's valentines poetry workshop this afternoon @ 5.30pm, Mansfield College @MansfieldOxford @UniofOxford, using the @bodleianlibs John Johnson & Harding collections!
ALT John Johnson Collection of Ephemera, Valentines, Album 86.2, Bodleian Library. Engraved, handcoloured valentine. A couple stand at an altar of love, with several cherubs watching. A verse printed beneath. Handwritten printer's notes in the margins.
ALT John Johnson Collection of Ephemera, Valentines, comic box 2, Bodleian Library. A handcoloured caricature of a woman, each of her features are labelled "false", with a mocking verse beneath
ALT Harding collection, comic valentines, E. 304. Bodleian Library. 'The Professional Valentine Writer'. Handcoloured frontispiece showing cupid sat writing letters
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In a just world “TwainGPT” would rewrite your prose in randomly selected variants of 19th-century regional dialect, add drunken digressions, and turn every genre you ask for— business letter, college essay—into a confusing joke about a frog.
It's my first week as a Bodleian Libraries Fellow @bodleianlibs and a Visiting Fellow at Mansfield College @MansfieldOxford! Thank you to both for such a warm welcome, in spite of the chilly drizzle
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Academic @Alice_Crossley will be here to give us a Victorian guide to Valentines Day.
We'll also hear how two women are keeping the Norfolk folk tale of Jack Valentine alive for the next generation.
Don't miss it!
Sunday / BBC One / 10:30
Tomorrow I'll be on Sunday Morning Live @bbcsml (BBC1, 10.30am) to discuss the history & traditions of St. Valentine's Day. There will be cards! Roman martyrs! Love spoons! And more... 💕💌💘 What will *you* be sending - or hoping to receive - on February 14th?!
ALT A selection of 6 decorative, colourful 19th-century valentines, typical of the period, featuring flowers and children.
Kicking off my semester of sabbatical research with a couple of days at the wonderful @UniRdgTypoColls University of Reading. Here be trade cards, rewards of merit, greetings & friendship cards, valentines, scrapbooks & more galore! #ephemera #print #19thcentury #materialculture
ALT 8 British trade cards for hatters & tailors
ALT 3 large comic or "vinegar" valentines. Each pictures a caricatured woman printed in red & black, with a short verse or text beneath. Addressed 'To a factory girl', 'To a pert young milliner', and 'The prize peacock!'
Interested in the Victorians, saving some money, crafting, or gifting meaningful homemade Christmas presents? I wrote a li'l piece for @ConversationUK: 'Seven Victorian paper craft projects that could cut your Christmas consumption' theconversation.com/seven-vi…
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why would you finish an article when you can start a new, more exciting one?
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Finally a helpful acknowledgement of the damage that's being done across the sector, and of its consequences
theguardian.com/education/20…
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Excited to announce our one-day online workshop on Ageing, Progress and Decline in the Victorian period on Fri 6 December. Join for papers on a range of topics by expert speakers - inc. a keynote by @jacob_jewusiak. Register via Eventbrite or email me: eventbrite.co.uk/e/ageing-pr…
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In case @telegraph readers are interested, this is a response to the story re @CanterbruyCCUni's decision to close its excellent English dept.
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BAVS ONLINE WRITING RETREATS victorianist.wordpress.com/2…
Does anyone have an Oxbridge non-stipendiary Visiting Fellowship application (for College rather than Faculty) that they'd be willing to share? English/History focused especially ideal! I'm unclear about how to frame my project & research for this kind of app... #twitterstorians?
I'm over the moon to have been awarded a Huntington Research Fellowship @TheHuntington (short-term fellow) in LA this summer, and a Bodleian Library Fellowship, Oxford (Sassoon fellow) @bodleianlibs @jjcollephemera in Feb, during a sabbatical. I'll be doing archival work...(1/3)
... for my book "Valentines & Paper Ephemera: Material and Visual Cultures of Feeling in the C19th". I can't wait to dive into such fabulous collections! (2/3)
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Exciting news from #PPBkA. Our 1st international conference, this November. CFP We ARE Amused: Victorian Humour and the Digital out now! Confirmed keynotes: Bob Nicholson @DigiVictorian & Jim Mussell @jimmussell
bit.ly/4aB00hr
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