Lecture
Daniel Snowman
Tuesday 13.01.2026
Daniel Snowman
Arts and Culture in 19th-Century Britain and Beyond
Tuesday 13.01.2026
How to watch
This lecture starts on 13 January at 7:00pm (UK).
Summary
In this introduction to the cultural world of Regency and Victorian times, Daniel will touch on a wide range of topics—from the high arts (neo-Gothic and neo-Classical architecture, celebrity poets and novelists, pre-Raphaelite painters and a host of new music hall and concert venues) to the philosophers, scientists, and inventions (railways, photography, recording, etc), and the underlying industrialisation, urbanisation, and early feminism of the late Victorian era.
Daniel Snowman
Daniel Snowman is a social and cultural historian. Born in London to a Jewish family in 1938 and educated at Cambridge and Cornell, Daniel became a lecturer at the University of Sussex and went on to work for many years at the BBC as senior producer of radio features and documentaries. A senior research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research (University of London), his many books include a social history of opera and a study of the cultural impact of the “Hitler Emigrés” and, most recently, his memoir Just Passing Through: Interactions with the World 1938-2021.