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Introducing A New Digital Event Series: A Panel on “Class” Periodicals

RSVP’s Digital Events is pleased to inaugurate the first in a recurring series of panel-style presentations (configured to be user-friendly for online consumption and participation) on Friday, August 9! “Class” Periodicals: Contents, Categories, Publics will take up “class” periodicals, a term developed to evade the stamp tax. Our panelists will present short papers that address the emergence of this variety of periodicals and their delineation of “general news”; the characteristics and audience of trade and professional journals of print; and medical journals like the Lancet and its conception of “general news.” Following the presentations, we will have time for robust […]

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The Future of Periodical Studies

Please join us on April 12, 8 a.m. PST / 11 a.m. EST / 4 p.m. GMT / 5 p.m. CET for our next RSVP Digital Event, “The Future of Periodical Studies: A Conversation with the Current and Former Editors of VPR,” the first in a series of reflection on the almost-60 years of RSVP. Three editors of Victorian Periodicals Review look back at the last two decades of scholarship and offer their perspectives on how our field has developed, including borders new and old, territories still unmapped, routes opened, roads not taken, and predictions for the next generation. Our speakers […]

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Let’s Begin Women’s History Month with a…Punch!

In the run-up to International Women’s Day 2024 (March 8), Dr. Clare Horrocks, along with Emily Parsons (LJMU Archivist and Special Collections Librarian) and Anne Foulkes (Digital Content Creator), will discuss the Women of Punch Exhibition held at Liverpool John Moores’ University Special Collections and Archives. Inspired by the Curran Index and author-attribution projects (as discussed at a recent RSVP Digital Event), Dr. Horrocks has, since 2014, been building a digital exhibition space to showcase the women contributors of Punch. At this talk, Dr. Horrocks and associates will take us through the Exhibition, reflecting on the processes used to curate it, and opportunities to use […]

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Congratulations to our 2024 Curran Fellowship Winners!

We are happy to announce nine RSVP Curran Fellows for 2024. The projects on which the Curran Fellows are working demonstrate the ongoing expansion and development of our fields of inquiry and objects of study. We very much look forward to hearing more about their work. Congratulations to: Ongoing Support for Periodicals Research The Curran Fellowships are 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. Made possible through the generosity of the late Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English, Colby College, and […]

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Exploring the 19thC with the HathiTrust Digital Library

Want to get the most out of using the HathiTrust Digital Library during your next research project? At RSVP’s next Digital Event, “‘On the dusty shelves of libraries’: Exploring the 19th-century with the HathiTrust Digital Library,” we will hear about HathiTrust’s resources, tools and services for computational analysis from John Walsh, Director of the HathiTrust Research Center and Associate Professor of Information and Library Science at Indiana University. Join us on Zoom on February 16 at 8 a.m. PST / 11 a.m. EST / 4 p.m. GMT / 5 p.m. CET and learn more about how to make the most […]

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Join Us on January 19 to Discuss Transnational Feminism and the ‘New Indian Woman’

Your digital-neighborhood friends at RSVP’s Digital Events (Katy Birch, Sourav Chatterjee, Ali Hatapçi, Andrew Hobbs, and Priti Joshi) are happy to announce another year of talks, discussions, exchanges, and learning on all matters related to 19th-century periodicals of Britain and its empire. At our first event of 2024, we will hear about transnational feminism in periodicals from Tarini Bhamburkar in a talk entitled “Characterising the ‘New Indian Woman’: Indian Feminism and Indian Women’s Interviews in the Women’s Penny Paper and The Woman’s Signal.” The talk will take place Friday, January 19 at 8 a.m. PST / 11 a.m. EST / […]

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