John Holmes’s essay ‘The challenge of evolution in Victorian poetry’ has just been published in Evolution and Victorian Culture, edited by Bernard Lightman and Bennett Zon. This is the first book…Read More >

Here are the details of two upcoming talks by members of the IRHS on aspects of their interdisciplinary work: John Holmes will be speaking on ‘“A Just Debt of Gratitude”:…Read More >

Alison Martin (German) writes: At the start of the year, I met up with Hilary Geoghegan from Geography who told me she was running a session on earth-writing for her 1st…Read More >

On Thursday evening  John Holmes will be discussing the decorative art of the nineteenth-century Irish stone-carvers James and John O’Shea at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History with the contemporary…Read More >

A quick reminder that George Levine, Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers University, will be speaking tomorrow  (Wednesday 30th April) at 2 p.m. in the Harborne Lecture Theatre on ‘Science and…Read More >

Alison Martin’s article “Outward Bound: Women Translators and Scientific Travel Writing, 1780–1800” has been published on-line with the Annals of Science. To read it,  click here.

Last week, I attended a one-day workshop at the University of Reading for early career scholars in Science and the Humanities.  Funded by the British Academy, the workshop aimed to…Read More >

Last Friday Reading played host to a British Academy funded workshop entitled Science and the Humanities for Early Career Scholars. Here the workshop organiser, Prof. David Stack explains the purpose…Read More >