Interdisciplinary research has to be the answer when it comes to understanding the Victorians, writes Professor Simon Goldhill, one of the researchers involved in a £1.2 million project on Victorian Britain that is reaching the end of its five-year programme.
The project mapping Charles Darwin's life and work in the 15,000 letters he wrote or received during his extraordinary lifetime will be completed after a £5 million funding package was announced.
A groundbreaking new study, supported by The Bonita Trust, that will look at Charles Darwin’s impact on attitudes to gender and sexuality, has been announced by Cambridge University.
Through the Darwin Correspondence Project, a rich collection of letters held at Cambridge University Library is both transforming our understanding of one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century and providing a panoramic vision of the era in which he lived.
Modern Britain was invented sometime between 1830 and 1900. It’s not just a question of industrialization, compulsory education, the right to vote (at least for men) or the growth of towns, important as all those particular processes were.
The details entered on this page will not be used to send unsolicited email and will not be passed on to any 3rd party for any reason. Privacy policy
