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RT @AnnaS1891: Unfortunately, the other presenters on this panel (Kailey Pire and Rida Leonard) have been unable to attend, so we are now h….

RT @AnnaS1891: First on the gothic hauntings and true crime panel this morning we have Bart Mulderij examining depictions of the numinous i….

RT @AnnaS1891: Now we have @BettyHagglund discussing the relationship between inner vision and bodily sight in The Adventures of Shiela Cre….

RT @AnnaS1891: Shiela Crerar advertises her services in the ‘laying of ghosts’ in the newspaper. ‘Always psychic’, she gets to walk around….

RT @AnnaS1891: And rounding off this panel we have Gregory Brennen talking about the roots of true crime podcasts in Victorian popular fict….

RT @AnnaS1891: The unprecedented popularity of the podcast Serial is closely linked to the producers’ unconscious debt to the seriality, na….

RT @AnnaS1891: Otto’s notion of the demonic helps to explain how Machen uses the numinous to evoke horror. The numinous becomes a site of t….

Peter wakes up and realises that the time travel is a dream. Smith suggests we can understand the text to be a time travel comedy with a didactic message. It is a text situated somewhere between Dickens and Wells, taking parts from didacticism and science fiction #VPFAExtremes.

To date, Sarah Alexander is the only scholar to pay any critical attention to this novel - so Smith's research is extremely original! #VPFAExtremes.

The final paper of the conference is Hayley Smith discussing Thomas Anstey Guthrie's Tourmalin’s Time Cheques as an early time travel narrative #VPFAExtremes.

Next we have Marijke Vale, who is discussing the fascination with radium's rejuvenating properties that led it to be known as the “elixir of life” #VPFAExtremes.

In the final science and imagination panel, Adam Baldwin is talking about tales of Venus. In these stories, the contemporary imperial assumption that other worlds are there to be conquered is subverted #VPFAExtremes.

read the short story here and let us know if you have any thoughts on it: #VPFAExtremes.

in the @ThirdSexVPFA conference session we were discussing Nebedita Sen's Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island. A very poignant commentary on literal, intellectual, cultural, and literary consumption #VPFAExtremes.

Fowler says she finds walking a useful methodology because it allows her to situate herself in the landscape and understand why certain places were valued above others #VPFAExtremes.

in a fascinating intersection of labour and colonial history, Ghandi visited Lancashire in 1931 to discuss the impact of the Indian boycott of British goods (particularly cotton) on the textile industry #VPFAExtremes.

George Loveless was sent to modern day Tazmania for being a Tolpuddle martyr. He was concerned about the brutality of the colonial regime and wrote that it was a good warning about aristocracy possessing unfettered power in the colonies as they do back home #VPFAExtremes.

1 example is Charborough Park, owned by MP Drax. His ancestor went to Barbados and built a sugar empire. The wealth from this & compensation for enslaving people affected locals. A toll road was built meaning local people suddenly had to pay to go in that direction #VPFAExtremes.

Take a look at Fowler’s book ‘Our Island Stories: Ten Walks through Rural Britain and its Hidden History of Empire’. She has an opium walk through the Lake District and more. It is a useful way of understanding what our colonial histories in this country are #VPFAExtremes.