Victorian Tales

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Postgraduate researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London working mainly on genre, multimodality, and popular culture in the nineteenth century. Other interests include speculative fiction, participatory culture, and the cultural history of immersive environments.
Victorian TalesMar 13
Show threadHistory_of_GeologyMar 13
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/professor-charles-lapworth-18421920?fbclid=IwY2xjawQgyRtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBpRzZXcWNLWDdjQmhNY01Zc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHpQmPCyxRSv4lOGlGUPGJjpoWs9vFt5oYOvvvj-VDKyitalZbiFvBCWSTK88_aem_PodiqUEyyL24IHJURPjxlg
Professor Charles Lapworth (1842–1920)

Who was Charles Lapworth? Find out about the man whose name lives on in that of the Lapworth Museum of Geology.

University of Birmingham
Victorian TalesMar 11
Helen LHMar 11
ChatGPT as a cognitive crutch: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial on knowledge retention
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.102287
"Study suggests that unrestricted ChatGPT use impaired long-term retention, likely by reducing the cognitive effort that supports durable memory. The findings align with cognitive offloading theory and the ‘desirable difficulties’ principle: while AI assistance may ease initial learning, it appears to undermine the effortful processes needed for robust learning."
#learning
Victorian TalesMar 4
Open Culture (Official)Mar 3

The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the Oldest Surviving Animated Feature Film, Is Now in the Public Domain (1926)

https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/the-adventures-of-prince-achmed-the-oldest-surviving-animated-feature-film.html

The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the Oldest Surviving Animated Feature Film, Is Now in the Public Domain (1926)

Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed, or The Adventures of Prince Achmed, lays fair claim to being the earliest animated feature film in existence. If we do grant it that title, it beats the next contender by more than a decade.

Open Culture
Victorian TalesMar 4
404 MediaMar 4

AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

https://www.404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles

AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

404 Media
Victorian TalesFeb 24
internetarchiveFeb 24

🎬📚 Just dropped: MYSTERY COPYRIGHT THEATER 2026!

Two of the @AuthorsAlliance crew talk back to the screen about works that entered the public domain, untangling the weird, wild, and confusing world of copyright law with irreverent but relevant commentary.

Watch the full short 👇
https://archive.org/details/mct2026

#PublicDomain #Copyright #OpenAccess #Libraries #CreativeReuse #PublicDomainDay

Victorian TalesFeb 24
EADH 2026 in KrakówFeb 23
⏰ Only four days before the submissions for the #EADH2026 conference close!
❗We are still waiting for your proposals
⌛The deadline is 23:59 AOE on Friday, 27 February 2026.
📌 You can check the full CFP on our website: https://eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/cfp
#digitalhumanities #dh #eadh #conference
Victorian TalesFeb 24
petersuberFeb 24

The new scholarly edition of _On Liberty_ from Hackett lists Harriet Taylor Mill as coauthor.
https://hackettpublishing.com/on-liberty-with-related-writings

PS: Kudos to Hackett for this good decision. I taught this book more than a dozen times in my career and always did what I could to bring out Harriet's contributions and John's acknowledgment of them. Perhaps now it will be easier to read the book fairly. We should not assume that all its arguments fit squarely into the utilitarian box, just because JS Mill was the author. We should be ready to recognize its non-utilitarian arguments, if only because Harriet was coauthor.

I'd argue that Harriet was less utilitarian than John. But either way, it's notable that under her influence he agreed to put his name on a work that departs more than his other works from "Millian" utilitarianism.

#Philosophy

On Liberty: with Related Writings

Forthcoming - March 2026 "With Harriet Taylor's name at last joined to that of her beloved husband John Stuart Mill as the co-author of this timeless book, we get to see On Liberty even more clearly as the complex and nuanced text it has always been. The greatest plea for individual intellectual freedom ever penned, with its insistence that no idea should be left unexamined nor any protest left unheard, it is also implicitly a document of progressive reform: the political emancipation of women is as much a natural consequence of Mill and Taylor's view of liberty as is the need for unimpeded discussion of all political questions. The right to open debate leads inevitably to the possibility of undreamt-of reform. Set free from too narrow a 'libertarian' or ‘utilitarian’ understanding, we can once again embrace On Liberty as one of the greatest heralds of the open society we possess, and as a foundational two-headed document of the matchless moral adventure of liberal democracy."—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker critic-at-large and author of A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism (Basic Books, 2019)

Victorian TalesFeb 23
Open Culture (Official)Feb 22

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online

https://www.openculture.com/2024/04/emily-dickinsons-herbarium.html

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online

So many writers have been gardeners and have written about gardens that it might be easier to make a list of those who didn’t. But even in this crowded company, Emily Dickinson stands out.

Open Culture
Victorian TalesFeb 23
John OverholtFeb 5
A late 19th century novel set in ancient Rome, issued in a special edition of 23 scrolls in a Roman-style carrying case. https://www.dorotheum.com/cz/l/9876563/
Victorian TalesFeb 23
Neil BrownFeb 23

> I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day

The examples included here are horrible. Not just the sex-shaming, but that too.

I'm far from convinced that a social media ban is the answer, but the comment is still well worth reading - especially by men.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/23/15-year-old-girl-misogyny-social-media-online-abuse

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day

Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

The Guardian