Domesticity and Intimacy in Victorian Military Art

Explore the world of Victorian military art with Professor Phillip Shaw as he reflects on the relationship between wartime experience and domestic daily life.

In this illustrated talk, Professor Phillip Shaw will consider paintings and photographs of the mid-19th century that challenge distinctions between the domestic and military spheres.

Utilising material from the National Army Museum’s collection - including works by John Dalbiac Luard and Henry Nelson O’Neill, as well as photographs of wounded Crimean soldiers by John JE Mayall - Professor Shaw will make the case that war in the Victorian period took place not only at a distance, but was also experienced much closer to home.

About the speaker

Phillip Shaw is Professor of Romantic Studies in the Department of English at the University of Leicester, specialising in British Romantic literature, literary theory and visual culture. He has published widely on the topics of poetry and the romantic imagination of conflict in culture.