The provisional programme for the forthcoming RSVP Conference is available to download from the Conference website along with information about registration, accommodation and travel http://www.rsvp2015.ugent.be/
Out Now: Dickens, Reynolds and Mayhew on Wellington Street: The Print Culture of a Victorian Street Mary L. Shannon, University of Roehampton, UK (Ashgate: April 2015) Following a successful launch event at the Menzies Centre, King’s College London this book is now available to buy. Please do consider ordering it for your libraries! Dickens, Reynolds and Mayhew on Wellington Street: The Print Culture of a Victorian Street discusses, for the first time, the proximity of the offices of Charles Dickens, G.W.M. Reynolds, and Henry Mayhew, in mid 19th-century London. Wellington Street (home to nearly thirty newspapers and periodicals, as well […]
Early registration is now open for the Cultures of Communication conference taking place this 10-11 September in Edinburgh, with a reduced fee available until 31 July. A preliminary schedule of session times is up on the website, as is the registration page. See http://www.ccii.hss.ed.ac.uk/?page_id=37
Deadline now extended until 1st June 2015. Full details available at http://www.espr-it.eu/news/2015-esprit-conference/25-call-for-papers
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is delighted to announce the winner of the 2014 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize – Caroline Bressey, author of Empire, Race, and the Politics of Anti-Caste (Bloomsbury, 2014). The Colby Prize is awarded to the scholarly book that most advances the understanding of the nineteenth-century British newspaper or periodical press. The selection committee praised Caroline Bressey’s book as innovative and conceptually engaging, citing its challenge to metropolitan-centric modelings of transnational and trans-Atlantic traffic in ideas, people, and publications and its careful contextualization of a pair of periodical case-studies. In engaging prose, the […]
