The Pre-Raphaelite Podcast

A Christmas Gathering!

The Pre-Raphaelite Podcast team get back together for this special episode. We discuss the successes of the last few months, laugh about a few particular highlights and look forward to the next year. 
Expect Burne-Jones, D.G. Rossetti, Robert Braithwaite Martineau, wombats, Muppets and...taxidermy! 
 
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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry: A Treasure Trove of Victorian Poetry

The project manager, Dr Alison Chapman speaks about the treasure trove that is Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry (DVPP). A labour of love, this website has archived thousands of nineteenth-century periodical poems. Dr Alison Chapman tells us about the website, the role of periodicals and how poems were selected and presented, with a particular focus of Christina Rossetti's beautifully illustrated 'A Christmas Carol'.
Find the DVPP here: https://dvpp.uvic.ca/index.html 

Scented Visions: Smell in Art 1850-1914

How can you smell a painting? In her latest wonderful work, Dr Christina Bradstreet shows us how scent was exploited for its synesthetic potential in Pre-Raphaelite artworks. Despite possibly being among the most neglected of our senses, Dr Christina Bradstreet helps us to understand how we can use perceptions of scent to explore paintings in a new way. 
 
Please use the code: NR22 for 30% off when purchasing the book from Penn State University Press. 

Make It New: The Pre-Raphaelites and The Modernists

In this episode, Hannah Comer talks to Karl about the ways in which the Pre-Raphaelites and the Modernists shared a number of processes in their creation of art and poetry. Myth-making, reshaping ideas of beauty, breaking from what has gone before and 'making it new' are just some of the continuities explored. 

At Home With Jane Morris

Sheri and Ester are joined by Suzanne Fagence Cooper whose latest work 'How We Might Live: At Home With Jane and William Morris' explores the enormous legacies of the Morris family. In this episode, Suzanne explains to us why the stories, works and lives of Jane Morris, Effie Gray and John Ruskin matter! 

’The Legend of King Arthur’

Natalie Rigby speaks to Hannah about curating the wonderful exhibition 'The Legend of King Arthur'. Always a popular subject for Pre-Raphaelite enthusiasts, Natalie shares how the exhibition came into being and how Cornwall is uniquely tied to both Arthurian legends and Pre-Raphaelitism. 
'The Legend of King Arthur' exhibition is currently at the William Morris Gallery, moving on to Tullie House, Carlisle in February 2023 and on to Falmouth Art Gallery in Cornwall in June 2023. 

Studying the Pre-Raphaelites

Our special guest Jordan Welsh chats with Alex and Karl about studying for a PhD in the Pre-Raphaelites. All are at different stages of their journey and offer some reflections, advice and handy hints for staying sane. 
 
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The Presence and the Dream, the book launch Special Edition, Part 2

In the second part of this special edition, The Pre-Raphaelite Society's Poet in Residence Sarah Doyle hosts an online launch for our latest poetry anthology 'The Presence and the Dream'. Winners of our annual poetry competition join Sarah to share their works, demonstrating that the lives, art and works of the Pre-Raphaelites continue to inspire a living poetic tradition. 
To purchase 'The Presence and the Dream', subscribe to The Pre-Raphaelite Society or find out more, please visit: www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org

The Presence and the Dream, the book launch Special Edition, Part 1

In this special edition, The Pre-Raphaelite Society's Poet in Residence Sarah Doyle hosts an online launch for our latest poetry anthology 'The Presence and the Dream'. Winners of our annual poetry competition join Sarah to share their works, demonstrating that the lives, art and works of the Pre-Raphaelites continue to inspire a living poetic tradition. 
To purchase 'The Presence and the Dream', subscribe to The Pre-Raphaelite Society or find out more, please visit: www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org

The Unfinished Painting: Mythology and the Pre-Raphaelites

Novelist and scholar Mercedes Aguirre joins Ester to explore the use of Classical mythology in Pre-Raphaelite painting. Mercedes explains how her stories explore both Classical and Pre-Raphaelite themes, while remaining contemporary and current. 
To find out more about Mercedes' work, please visit: https://mercedesaguirrecastro.com/mercedes-aguirre-castro-en
For more information and to subscribe to the Pre-Raphaelite Society, please visit www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org