Cambridge Victorian Studies Group

http://www.victorians.group.cam.ac.uk/

The Cambridge Victorian Studies Group website provides information about the group's five-year, interdisciplinary research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, entitled "Past versus Present: Abandoning the Past in an Age of Progress". The project aims to examine Victorian attitudes to the past, and in particular to understand how the Victorians reconciled their commitment to "creating the future" with the contemporary unearthing of "multiple pasts in wonderful profusion and vexingly contradictory detail". A detailed description of the project's aims is provided, together with listings of forthcoming related events such as seminars and symposia, and an archive of past events. The Cambridge Victorian Studies Group is an umbrella group which hopes to promote interdisciplinary research into the Victorian period, both within and outside Cambridge. Indeed, the project brings together researchers from the fields of English literature; Classics; History of Archaeology; Museology; Geology; and Theology.