Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
@rs4vp.org
An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire throughout the long nineteenth century.
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📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
📣 Save the date! Nominations for our annual Colby Book Prize opens next week on 15 November. To comply with tax laws, books must be nominated by somebody other than the author, so tell us about the best book YOU read on #19thC periodicals published in 2025. rs4vp.org/awards/colby...
The Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize – RSVP
The Colby Book Prize was endowed in 2006 in memory of Robert Colby by his wife, Vineta Colby, distinguished scholars and long-time members of RSVP. In 2011, following Vineta’s death, the Board of Dire...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
📣 Save the date! Nominations for our annual Colby Book Prize opens next week on 15 November. To comply with tax laws, books must be nominated by somebody other than the author, so tell us about the best book YOU read on #19thC periodicals published in 2025. rs4vp.org/awards/colby...
Does anyone in our orbit know?
Hey, folks, I think I heard that Renton Nicholson's The Town was digitized recently, but I can't find where — is it publicly available? Thinking that @victorianlondon.bsky.social or @rs4vp.org may know!
November 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Does anyone in our orbit know?
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Another VPFA Study Day: 'The Critical Age in Victorian Popular Literature'
❓literary representations of the (peri-) menopause
🌏 online
📅 19th May 2026
💰 free for VPFA Members/ £5 for non-members
Send proposals (250) to
jessica.cox@brunel.ac.uk and siobhan.smith@tees.ac.uk by 19th February 2026
❓literary representations of the (peri-) menopause
🌏 online
📅 19th May 2026
💰 free for VPFA Members/ £5 for non-members
Send proposals (250) to
jessica.cox@brunel.ac.uk and siobhan.smith@tees.ac.uk by 19th February 2026
November 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Another VPFA Study Day: 'The Critical Age in Victorian Popular Literature'
❓literary representations of the (peri-) menopause
🌏 online
📅 19th May 2026
💰 free for VPFA Members/ £5 for non-members
Send proposals (250) to
jessica.cox@brunel.ac.uk and siobhan.smith@tees.ac.uk by 19th February 2026
❓literary representations of the (peri-) menopause
🌏 online
📅 19th May 2026
💰 free for VPFA Members/ £5 for non-members
Send proposals (250) to
jessica.cox@brunel.ac.uk and siobhan.smith@tees.ac.uk by 19th February 2026
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Challenging AI to create a Punch Pocket Book. We still rely on keywords for tagging as the most effective method for training data sets. Julia Thomas Pictorial Punch Study Day @britishlibrary.bsky.social @punchspocketbook.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @l19cmanmet.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Challenging AI to create a Punch Pocket Book. We still rely on keywords for tagging as the most effective method for training data sets. Julia Thomas Pictorial Punch Study Day @britishlibrary.bsky.social @punchspocketbook.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @l19cmanmet.bsky.social
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Fascinating discussion of the Almanacks and Pocket Books as depicted in the Silver Diary with @patrickleary.bsky.social for the Pictorial Punch Study Day @britishlibrary.bsky.social @punchspocketbook.bsky.social @rs4vp.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Fascinating discussion of the Almanacks and Pocket Books as depicted in the Silver Diary with @patrickleary.bsky.social for the Pictorial Punch Study Day @britishlibrary.bsky.social @punchspocketbook.bsky.social @rs4vp.org
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The wonderful @patrickleary.bsky.social begins his keynote at ‘Pictorial Punch’ at @britishlibrary.bsky.social . Great to be here with other @rs4vp.org friends!
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The wonderful @patrickleary.bsky.social begins his keynote at ‘Pictorial Punch’ at @britishlibrary.bsky.social . Great to be here with other @rs4vp.org friends!
Our next #RSVPDigiEvent is coming up on Friday, 21 November! We'll hear from the editors of 3 top Victorian studies journals (including VPR's own kmalonephd.bsky.social) on "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal." Come one, come all! buff.ly/ydJkKAK
November 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Our next #RSVPDigiEvent is coming up on Friday, 21 November! We'll hear from the editors of 3 top Victorian studies journals (including VPR's own kmalonephd.bsky.social) on "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal." Come one, come all! buff.ly/ydJkKAK
The deadline (15 November) is fast approaching for our annual Peterson Fellowships! Peterson Fellowships support one researcher for four, full-time months of work on a project related to #19thC periodicals. Application guidelines and more can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/peter...
Peterson Fellowship Guidelines – RSVP
Each year, the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) intends to grant one Linda H. Peterson Fellowship (henceforth, “the Peterson Fellowship”) in the amount of $20,000 to a single research...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The deadline (15 November) is fast approaching for our annual Peterson Fellowships! Peterson Fellowships support one researcher for four, full-time months of work on a project related to #19thC periodicals. Application guidelines and more can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/peter...
📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
October 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
ICYMI: @emilyjlm.bsky.social's talk on "From Periodicals to Dailies" is now live on our YouTube channel! This well-attended and stirring #RSVPDigiEvent highlighted both the joys and challenges of doing attribution research in an era of "archival plenitude." Thank you, Emily! youtu.be/Wp_b2C6iGnY
"From Periodicals to Dailies": An Update from the Curran Index
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October 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
ICYMI: @emilyjlm.bsky.social's talk on "From Periodicals to Dailies" is now live on our YouTube channel! This well-attended and stirring #RSVPDigiEvent highlighted both the joys and challenges of doing attribution research in an era of "archival plenitude." Thank you, Emily! youtu.be/Wp_b2C6iGnY
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@rs4vp.org and periodicals folks: I'm trying to find an example of unstamped newspaper publishers evading paper duty. I am quite sure I've seen pamphlets/flyers/news printed on cloth before, but a Google search is only trying to sell me handkerchiefs.
Did these exist or have I gone insane?
Did these exist or have I gone insane?
October 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
@rs4vp.org and periodicals folks: I'm trying to find an example of unstamped newspaper publishers evading paper duty. I am quite sure I've seen pamphlets/flyers/news printed on cloth before, but a Google search is only trying to sell me handkerchiefs.
Did these exist or have I gone insane?
Did these exist or have I gone insane?
Just a quick reminder that Curran Fellowship recommendation letters are due TODAY! If you're writing a letter of support for a Curran applicant, be sure to submit it via our online portal by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time (which might buy a few of you some time 😏): buff.ly/1p1VE8f
October 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Just a quick reminder that Curran Fellowship recommendation letters are due TODAY! If you're writing a letter of support for a Curran applicant, be sure to submit it via our online portal by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time (which might buy a few of you some time 😏): buff.ly/1p1VE8f
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The official CFP is a few days off, but I can't wait that long to announce that #BAVS2026 will be held in Liverpool, 27-29 July. We hope that some of the @rs4vp.org crowd will be able to make the trip over from #RSVP2026 and join @bavs-uk.bsky.social for more Victorian stuff. Details to follow.
October 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The official CFP is a few days off, but I can't wait that long to announce that #BAVS2026 will be held in Liverpool, 27-29 July. We hope that some of the @rs4vp.org crowd will be able to make the trip over from #RSVP2026 and join @bavs-uk.bsky.social for more Victorian stuff. Details to follow.
Just two weeks left to get your applications in for #MovementsMigrations aka #RSVP2026 in Dublin! We're looking forward to your hot takes on the ways in which the press shaped and was shaped by the movements and migrations throughout the long #19thC. See the full CFP on our website:
RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP
The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or…
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October 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Just two weeks left to get your applications in for #MovementsMigrations aka #RSVP2026 in Dublin! We're looking forward to your hot takes on the ways in which the press shaped and was shaped by the movements and migrations throughout the long #19thC. See the full CFP on our website:
We know NO ONE waits until the last minute to submit their Curran Fellowship applications 😉 For those who may have let the weeks slip by, however, TODAY is the last day to submit your completed applications! Make sure they're in by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time via our online portal here: buff.ly/1p1VE8f
October 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
We know NO ONE waits until the last minute to submit their Curran Fellowship applications 😉 For those who may have let the weeks slip by, however, TODAY is the last day to submit your completed applications! Make sure they're in by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time via our online portal here: buff.ly/1p1VE8f
Just a reminder to join the #RSVPDigiEv team this Friday, 17 Oct. to hear from our Curran Index editors about the "joys and challenges" of archival and attribution research. We'll meet at the usual time, usual place (Zoom). Registration is, as always, free and open to all!
Oct. Digital Event: "From Periodicals to Dailies" – RSVP
Our October DigiEvent features a talk by editors of the Curran Index on the joys and challenges of archival plenitude. Join us October 17!
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October 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Just a reminder to join the #RSVPDigiEv team this Friday, 17 Oct. to hear from our Curran Index editors about the "joys and challenges" of archival and attribution research. We'll meet at the usual time, usual place (Zoom). Registration is, as always, free and open to all!
📕 New book alert! Isabelle Richet is delighted to share what promises to be interesting for many in our midst: The first comprehensive study of the English-language press published in non-anglophone countries during the #19thC. Congratulations & thanks for #SharingYourNews! rs4vp.org/new-book-tra...
New Book! The Transnational British Press in Non-Anglophone Countries – RSVP
Isabelle Richet shares the publication of a new edited collection on the history of Transnational British Press in Non-Anglophone Countries.
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October 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
📕 New book alert! Isabelle Richet is delighted to share what promises to be interesting for many in our midst: The first comprehensive study of the English-language press published in non-anglophone countries during the #19thC. Congratulations & thanks for #SharingYourNews! rs4vp.org/new-book-tra...
One week left to get your Curran Fellowship application in! Curran awards cover expenses up to US$6,000 to do original archival research on the #19thC periodical press. Let us help you make that trip to the archive possible! Applications accepted through Oct. 15 @ 11:59 Pacific Time
Curran Fellowship Guidelines – RSVP
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) grants at least six Curran Fellowship awards each calendar year. Applicants may request any amount of support up to $6000; the Curran Fellowships…
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October 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
One week left to get your Curran Fellowship application in! Curran awards cover expenses up to US$6,000 to do original archival research on the #19thC periodical press. Let us help you make that trip to the archive possible! Applications accepted through Oct. 15 @ 11:59 Pacific Time
Are you doing #19thC attribution research? Do you have DH skills and nowhere to use them? YOU could be the next editor of the Curran Index! We're still accepting applications thru next week on 15 Oct. Lead this ongoing + fully supported DH project into its next iteration! rs4vp.org/curran-edito...
Lead the Curran Index as Our New Editor – RSVP
RSVP seeks a new Editor or Editors to lead the Curran Index! Applications should be sent to VP Alison Chapman by October 15.
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October 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Are you doing #19thC attribution research? Do you have DH skills and nowhere to use them? YOU could be the next editor of the Curran Index! We're still accepting applications thru next week on 15 Oct. Lead this ongoing + fully supported DH project into its next iteration! rs4vp.org/curran-edito...
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Call for Contributions: Victorian Infrastructures & their Environmental Legacies
We're still looking for articles to be included in our @openlibhums.org special issue!
Abstracts are due 31 October, full texts 31 March '26.
@bavs-uk.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @asleuki.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social
We're still looking for articles to be included in our @openlibhums.org special issue!
Abstracts are due 31 October, full texts 31 March '26.
@bavs-uk.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @asleuki.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social
OLHJ_CfP.pdf
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October 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Call for Contributions: Victorian Infrastructures & their Environmental Legacies
We're still looking for articles to be included in our @openlibhums.org special issue!
Abstracts are due 31 October, full texts 31 March '26.
@bavs-uk.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @asleuki.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social
We're still looking for articles to be included in our @openlibhums.org special issue!
Abstracts are due 31 October, full texts 31 March '26.
@bavs-uk.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @asleuki.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social
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Rachel Calder examines how The Bookseller #tradejournal laid the foundation for the communication and information system that remains at the heart of today’s global #publishing industry. Read about founder Joseph Whitaker’s innovative strategies in VPR 58.1: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
September 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Rachel Calder examines how The Bookseller #tradejournal laid the foundation for the communication and information system that remains at the heart of today’s global #publishing industry. Read about founder Joseph Whitaker’s innovative strategies in VPR 58.1: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
After some delay on the part of yours truly 🙄 the recording of our Sept. #RSVPDigiEvent on grantscrafting is now live on YouTube. And just in time - Curran Fellowships are due in just a few short weeks on Oct. 15! Many thanks to our panelists + to Clare Horrocks for chairing! youtu.be/L5XRtqh1qoE
Applying for a Curran Fellowship: A Grants-crafting Workshop
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September 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
After some delay on the part of yours truly 🙄 the recording of our Sept. #RSVPDigiEvent on grantscrafting is now live on YouTube. And just in time - Curran Fellowships are due in just a few short weeks on Oct. 15! Many thanks to our panelists + to Clare Horrocks for chairing! youtu.be/L5XRtqh1qoE
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Drawing on a transatlantic archive, @miladaskalova.bsky.social explores the experience of time in asylum #periodicals. Learn how these publications served as instruments of both recalibration and resistance in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
September 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Drawing on a transatlantic archive, @miladaskalova.bsky.social explores the experience of time in asylum #periodicals. Learn how these publications served as instruments of both recalibration and resistance in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
Our next #RSVPDigiEv is about a month away! Join us Oct. 17 to hear about recent updates to the Curran Index from editors @emilyjlm.bsky.social+Lars Atkin in a talk, "From Periodicals to Dailies: Attribution Scholarship and the Joys and Challenges of Archival Plenitude." rs4vp.org/oct-digital-...
Oct. Digital Event: "From Periodicals to Dailies" – RSVP
Our October DigiEvent features a talk by editors of the Curran Index on the joys and challenges of archival plenitude. Join us October 17!
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September 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Our next #RSVPDigiEv is about a month away! Join us Oct. 17 to hear about recent updates to the Curran Index from editors @emilyjlm.bsky.social+Lars Atkin in a talk, "From Periodicals to Dailies: Attribution Scholarship and the Joys and Challenges of Archival Plenitude." rs4vp.org/oct-digital-...
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Nilkantha Pal investigates the emergence of children’s #periodicals in Bengali literary culture. Learn how these vernacular periodicals helped shape a literary selfhood among Bengali middle classes from the 1870s onward: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org #ExpandingTheField
September 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Nilkantha Pal investigates the emergence of children’s #periodicals in Bengali literary culture. Learn how these vernacular periodicals helped shape a literary selfhood among Bengali middle classes from the 1870s onward: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org #ExpandingTheField