Victorian Blogging

Our National Lottery Heritage Funded project – The Pamphleteers Who Dared to Dream of a Better World. Find out about the conservation and digitisation of 19th century radical pamphlet collection.

At the close of November 2019, we conclude our National Lottery Heritage Funded project, Victorian Blogging – The Pamphleteers Who Dared to Dream of a Better World. The support of National Lottery players has allowed us to conserve, digitise and share freely online our collection of nineteenth-century pamphlets. We have worked with conservators and digitisation […]

Click here to download the Victorian Blogging Special Edition of the Ethical Record. To celebrate all the work that has gone into our National Lottery Heritage Funded project, Victorian Blogging, we have produced a special edition of our Ethical Record journal, which can be read here. This issue brings together many of those who have contributed […]

16 August 2019 marks 200 years since the attack on over 60,000 peaceful pro-democracy protesters that has become known as the Peterloo Massacre. This event, a landmark in British political history, took place in the area of Manchester known today as St Peter’s Square. Against a backdrop of growing unrest due to the injustice of […]

This blog comes from our volunteer, Cami Garcia, who selected Rev. James Cranbrook’s pamphlet ‘Human Depravity’ as a highlight of our nineteenth-century pamphlet collection. Little biographical information about Rev. Cranbrook is available, but his title of Reverend, combined with the content of this pamphlet and his decision to publish his work through the radical freethought […]

This blog comes from our volunteer, Selina Packard, who selected the theme of atheism as a highlight of our nineteenth-century pamphlet collection. In this blog, Selina discusses different attitudes to atheism in the nineteenth century and today, with reference to a few pamphlets now available to read online. These pamphlets are just some of over […]

This blog comes from our volunteer, Cami Garcia, who selected Austin Holyoake’s neo-Malthusian pamphlet ‘Large or small families? On which side lies the balance of comfort?’ as a highlight of our nineteenth-century pamphlet collection. Austin Holyoake, brother of secularist and co-operator George Jacob Holyoake, was a radical printer and publisher and campaigner for secularism and […]

As part of our Heritage Lottery Funded pamphlet digitisation project, we have had our collection of nineteenth-century pamphlets conserved in order for them to be robust enough for the digitisation process and to ensure their long-term preservation. This work has been completed by the Postal Museum conservation studio, who have completed a number of treatments […]

Today marks 70 years since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris on 10th December 1948. Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world, regardless of where you are from, what you believe or how you live your life. The declaration consists […]

Through July and August we ran a series of three creative writing workshops led by creative writing practitioner Michelle Crowther, as part of the Heritage Lottery funded Victorian Blogging project. Six pamphlets were chosen to provide inspiration for participants to write their own poems or short stories and some of the participants have kindly allowed us to share their […]

This post was written by Conway Hall Library & Archives volunteer, Katarina, about an early sci-fi story found within our pamphlet collection. This is just one of over 1300 nineteenth-century pamphlets we are making freely available online through the Heritage Lottery funded digitisation project, Victorian Blogging. ‘The Man from the Moon’, a short science fiction story written […]

Victorian Blogging

Victorian Blogging – Powerful Voices in the Archives

Victorian Blogging – A Special Edition of the Ethical Record

Victorian Blogging – Richard Carlile and the Peterloo Massacre

Victorian Blogging – Human Depravity

Victorian Blogging – Atheism in the Nineteenth Century and Today

Victorian Blogging – Austin Holyoake and the Population Control Question

Victorian Blogging – Conserving our Pamphlet Collection

Victorian Blogging – Human Rights, from Victorian Reformers to the Universal Declaration

Victorian Blogging – Creative Writing Workshop (3)

Victorian Blogging – Creative Writing Workshop (2)

Victorian Blogging – Creative Writing Workshop

Victorian Blogging – Nineteenth-Century Utopian Sci-Fi