Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 52, No. 1, Spring 2019
The spring issue of Victorian Periodicals Review is here! Check out the table of contents.
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Curran Fellowships competition begins! Deadline December 1, 2018.
Curran Fellowships support various kinds of research into primary sources for the history of the 19th-century British press. This year’s competition supports research to be undertaken in 2019. The deadline for applications is December 1, 2018. Details can be found here: https://rebuild.rs4vp.org/curran-fellowship/
Liverpool Newspaper Heritage Project (LNHP) Launch
A new collaborative research project on Liverpool newspapers in the nineteenth century, led by Nick Foggo at Liverpool University, has recently posted information on its website, which can be found here.
Curran Fellowships competition opens, applications due December 1, 2016
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) is pleased to announce the competition for the ninth annual Curran Fellowships, a set of travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying 19th-century British magazines and newspapers in making use of primary print and archival sources. The Curran Fellowships are made possible through the generosity of the late Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English, Colby College, and inspired by her pioneering research on Victorian periodicals. This year, RSVP anticipates awarding at least six fellowships of as much as $5000 each. Visit the Curran Fellowships page to read the full call for […]
CFP: Special Issue of Victorian Periodicals Review: “Victorian Education and the Periodical Press”
Issue: Winter 2017 Notify editor of intention to submit: July 15, 2016 Deadline for final submission: December 1, 2016 Email: Janice.schroeder @ carleton.ca “Beyond the means of subsistence, it is difficult to think of anything more important than education to the well-being and sense of self-worth of most nineteenth-century Britons” (Florence Boos, “The Education Act of 1870: Before and After,” BRANCH). Yet within Victorian periodical studies, education in its various dimensions has received little focused attention. The Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism, for example, contains no topic entries on education or schooling; the entry on the professions and journalism contains […]
Conference of the European Society for Periodical Research, Liverpool, July 7-8, 2016
Periodical Counter Cultures: Tradition, Conformity and Dissent Liverpool John Moores University will host the fifth annual conference of the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit) on 7-8 July 2016. For details, please visit the conference website. Brian Maidment, Vice-President of RSVP, will host the gathering.
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