Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
Founded in 1996, the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies at Birkbeck focuses both on the work of academic staff and the research of graduate students, bringing together a range of interests that form a context for graduate teaching. We see the era from 1790 to 1914, from the Revolutionary period to WWI, as a time when important cultural formations and literary and historical relationships emerge over a number of decades:
- Our events: we organise a dynamic range of events every year, including conferences, symposia and seminars.
Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies: seminar series - Our aims and research interests: our members have diverse interests, which cover the span of the Victorian age.
- Centre members: everyone with an interest in nineteenth-century studies is welcome to join us.
- Sally Ledger: we have created this resource to enable us to bring together all of the obituaries that have been published about Sally and also to provide a space for those of us who were fortunate enough to know her to share our memories of her.
- Dickens Project summer school: Birkbeck's Department of English and Humanities joined the Dickens Project in 2005, and is able to send one member of academic staff and up to two doctoral students to the summer school.
Related publications and research projects
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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century: We launched our electronic journal, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, on 1 October 2005 with the aim of publicising and disseminating the research activities carried out under the auspices of the Centre.
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Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition: Funded by the AHRC and led by Professor Laurel Brake, ncse is a partnership between Birkbeck's Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, King's College London, the British Library and Sove Software Inc.
Contact us
For further information about the Centre's activities, please contact Professor Hilary Fraser.
