Submissions Deadline March 10th, 2023 Event will be held evening of May 10th, 2023 in NYC, 6:00 p.m.- 7:30 p.m. The Victorian Society New York invites university student historians and recent graduates to submit proposals by March 10 for its annual "Emerging Scholars" evening event on May 10, 2023. The nonprofit VSNY (vicsocny.org), founded in […]

The Margot Gayle Fund for the Preservation of Victorian Heritage was established in 2003 to honor Margot Gayle (1908-2008), an eminent preservationist who was one of the founders of the Victorian Society in America. The Victorian Society New York (officially known as the New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America) regularly awards […]

In-Person Event at the Grolier Club 47 East 60th Street New York, NY 10022 Tickets Here Part of the Tin Pan Alley American Popular Music Project collection. Lecture with music and reception celebrates exhibition "To Fight for the Poor with My Pen: Zoe Anderson Norris" and Tin Pan Alley songs. On March 27, 5:30 to […]

At the Grolier Club 47 East 60th Street Tickets Here! Independent scholar Eve M. Kahn will give a tour of her exhibition at the Grolier Club (47 East 60th Street), To Fight for the Poor with My Pen: Zoe Anderson Norris, Queen of Bohemia. Norris (1860-1914), although little remembered today, was a foremother of modern-day social-justice […]

At Caramoor 149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY Tickets Here! This expert-led tour will explore Caramoor's spectacular Mediterranean Revival mansion in Katonah, NY, with furnishings including entire rooms imported from Europe and a surprising connection to early electronic music. Finished in 1939 after more than a decade of work, Caramoor was the country estate of […]

At the New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West Tickets Here! New-York Historical Society curators will give a private tour of the first exhibition dedicated to Thomas Commeraw, a skilled craftsman in Lower Manhattan active from the 1790s to 1819, whose racial identity was long overlooked. Born enslaved, Commeraw rose to prominence as a free […]

The Victorian Society's Emerging Scholars Event will be on May 10th, from 6:30 to 8:00 PM at the Jefferson Market Library on 6th Avenue. Free! Registration Required VSNY is pleased to host three scholars, each giving a 20-minute presentation and followed by questions: NYU Costume Studies alumna Juliana Cirillo will explore aspects of ethnicity and class as […]

Join Us! Annual VSNY Margot Gayle Fundraiser When: Wednesday, May 24th 2023 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM Where: Hunt Slonem’s Manhattan Studio (location confirmed with ticket purchase) Contemporary artist Hunt Slonem is one of the most collected painters working today. His neo-Expressionist depictions of nature – including his iconic bunnies and parrots  -- are eagerly acquired […]

All are welcome at the Victorian Society New York's Annual Meeting, Awards Showcase, and reception! When: Tuesday June 6th, 6:30 - 8pm Where: Church of the Ascension, 5th Ave & W. 10th Street About the Event: Current members, new members and guests are invited to join us at the lovely and historic Church of the […]

Step Back in Time and Explore the Newport Cottages from 1835 through 1890, before the Vanderbilt Era In-Person Event & Book Signing Montauk Club 25 Eighth Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11217 Free Tickets Available Here Author Michael Kathrens will present a compelling account of the luxury and splendor of Newport’s nineteenth-century summer “cottages,” the subject […]

Hear from the Curators of Women's Work, a New Exhibition at the New-York Historical Society Jefferson Market Library 425 Sixth Avenue New York, New York 10011 Free Tickets Available Here Allison Robinson and Jeanne Gutierrez, curators of Women's Work, a new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society's Center for Women’s History, will speak on how […]

Join Photographer and Author Andrew Garn for a Discussion of Brooklyn Arcadia, a New Book Highlighting Brooklyn's Majestic Green-Wood Cemetery Green-Wood Cemetery 500 25th Street Brooklyn, New York 11232 (Enter at the Modern Chapel near the Main Entrance at Fifth Avenue and 25th Street) Free Tickets Available Here Green-Wood Cemetery draws nearly half a million […]

In Partnership with Friends of the Erben Organ at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral 261 Mott Street, New York, NY Wednesday, December 6th 7:00 pm–9:00 pm We are pleased to join the Friends of the Erben Organ for a merry evening of Victorian-era carols, seasonal music, and readings. Afterward, enjoy festive treats and […]

Enjoy an Exclusive Curator-Led Tour of Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity Wachenheim Gallery, New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 476 Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street New York, NY 10018 Tickets ($25/$20 for Members) Here! Today we live in a world of celebrity culture, but celebrity became an international industry in the late […]

Online Talk! Curator Brian Gallagher Discusses the Exhibition Walter Scott Lenox and American Belleek at The Mint Museum Tickets ($10/$5 for Members) Available Here Brian Gallagher, Senior Curator of Decorative Arts at The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, will present noteworthy examples of art porcelain produced in late nineteenth-century Trenton, New Jersey, at the three […]

Online Talk! Livia Arndal Woods Discusses Pregnancy in British Literature Tickets ($10/$5 Members) Here Livia Arndal Woods will discuss her recent book, Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel, which argues that we need to be attuned to speculation and our own experiences of embodiment to read depictions of women's reproductive capacity in nineteenth-century British literature as […]

In-Person Talk! Historian Mia Certic Discusses How America's First Civil Rights Case Emerged in Montauk Bloomingdale School of Music 323 West 108th Street New York, NY 10025 Tickets ($10/$5 Members) Here!! In 1839, eight weeks after their dramatic mutiny, 49 trafficked African men aboard the schooner La Amistad dropped anchor off the coast of Montauk, […]

In-Person Talk! The Peculiar Story of Doesticks and the Fortunetellers    Rockwell Gallery at The Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Avenue (at 12th Street) New York, NY 10003 Free Tickets Here!! Who knows what the future holds? Well, on March 7, we’re co-sponsoring a talk about 19th-century NYC fortune tellers with The Greenwich Village Society for Historic […]

Submissions Deadline EXTENDED: March 11th, 2024 Program Takes Place May 7th, 2024 in NYC, 6:00–7:30 pm The Metropolitan (New York) Chapter of the Victorian Society invites university student historians and recent graduates to submit proposals by Monday, March 11, 2024, for its annual Emerging Scholars evening program on May 7, 2024. The nonprofit VSNY (vicsocny.org), […]

In-Person Talk! The Brothers Peracchio Aboard the RMS Titanic   Jefferson Market Library 425 6th Avenue New York, NY 10011 Free Tickets Here!! On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg at 11:35 pm; within a few hours, it sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Newfoundland, taking 1,496 lives. Two of the victims […]