This timeline supports 'Digital Victorians: 19th-century media, technology & culture', a project developed by MA Victorian Studies students at Birkbeck's School of Arts.
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This course explores how Victorians developed different media; how technological developments were culturally brokered across the nineteenth century; and, moreover, the ways in which research into Victorian media, technology and culture are presented to public audiences via digital practice in the twenty-first century.
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This map supports 'Digital Victorians: 19th-century media, technology & culture', a project developed by MA Victorian Studies students at Birkbeck's School of Arts.
This exhibition explores the co-productive relationship between technology and culture in the 19th century. With a focus on the cultural processes and products of invention, it highlights the contributions of women and their navigation of the patent system; examines the cutlery industry as a prime example of how technological innovation, mass-production, international trade and advertising aligned with class-led social aspirations and growing consumerism; and considers how new media technologies affected ideas about the dead and the ways Victorians sought connection with deceased loved ones.