QMUL Centre for 19C & Legacies

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Centre for the Study of the Nineteenth Century and its Legacies - QMUL Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. https://www.qmul.ac.uk/arts/research/19th-century-centre/

Upcoming Events: - 'Meet the Magic Lantern': 19th November 2024. - Carols in Context, 9th December 2024, 6-8pm Back by popular demand, this year's Carols in Context event will be on Monday 9th December 2024, 6-8pm. Please save the date! Booking information will be published shortly and we look forward to seeing you there.
Photo of Nasser Mufti speaking while sitting on a chair in front of a screen with a quotation: ‘ It Is a new Society that we are working to realise, not a Cleaning up of our present tyrannical muddle.* How close Morris came to the bone! He looked right across history and, with remarkable Insight, saw into our particular predicament. There, on the streets of Nairobi is Morris's tyranny: here, in the ageing dockyards, the cluttered roads and rallway stations, the decaying centres of our cites, the closing nationalised collieries, is his muddle.’ Stuart Hall, New Left Review 1. 1. 3 (1960)
Photo of a five person choir singing in front of an audience in an ornate high ceilinged round room filled with books. To the left a screen projecting the poster for the event. To the right a grand piano and a Christmas tree decorated in red and gold
Poster for Victorian Christmas Carols in Context. Secular and sacred carols with singing, mulled wine, mince pies & good cheer (optional fancy dress... Mon 4th December, 6-8pm. Octagon, Queen's Building. Please register (free). Red poster with Victorian illustrations of a holly wreath and a girl carrying a small snow laden Christmas tree.
“Assembling the Past: Digital Studies and Literary History.” Prof. Dino Felluga (Purdue). Wednesday 6 December, 16:30-18:00. Graduate Centre, QMUL. All welcome! Poster background is grey with an abstract pale blue diagonal wave