Victorian Archives

Hear speakers from the National Portrait Gallery, Guildhall Art Gallery, the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, and the Salvation Army Archive, who host prestigious internships with the Birkbeck MA in Victorian Studies. They discuss the joys and challenges of collecting, curating, preserving and researching the Victorians. Speakers: Who was Emma Riches? Caroline Smith from Bethlem Museum of the Mind finds out. Katty Pearce, Assistant Curator at the Guildhall Art Gallery, gives us a taste of Albert Moore’s Pomegranates. Ruth Macdonald from The Salvation Army Heritage Centre talks about ‘The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon’ Dr Jan Marsh and Elizabeth Heath from the National Portrait Gallery talk about The Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue: mapping visual biographies across the nineteenth-century art world.