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Call for Nominations – Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is pleased to announce this year’s call for submissions for the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize, awarded to the scholarly book that most advances the understanding of the nineteenth-century British newspaper or periodical press.  All books exploring the British press of the period are eligible (including single-author monographs, edited collections, and editions) so long as they have an official publication date of 2014. The winner will receive a monetary award of up to $2,000, and will be invited to speak at the RSVP conference in Ghent, Belgium (10-11 July 2015). The prize […]

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Call for Nominations – Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is pleased to announce this year’s call for submissions for the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize, awarded to the scholarly book that most advances the understanding of the nineteenth-century British newspaper or periodical press. Please see our Awards page for further information.

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Popular History in Victorian Magazines Database – NOW AVAILABLE!

Popular History in Victorian Magazines Database (PHVM) <http://phvm.ub.uni-freiburg.de/index.php?site=intro>   Periodicals were an essential part of, and reflected all aspects of Victorian culture, including the Victorians’ interest in the past. The Popular History in Victorian Magazines Database (PHVM) derives from a project on popular presentations of history in Victorian magazines:   “Histories for the Many: Historical Lifeworlds in Victorian Family, Women’s and Children’s Periodicals” – “Geschichte(n) für viele: Historische Lebenswelten in Familien-, Frauen- und Kinderzeitschriften des viktorianischen England” (KO 1195/15-1) <http://portal.uni-freiburg.de/historische-lebenswelten/projekte/BK_DL> in the context of the Research Group DFG FOR 875 “History in Popular Cultures of Knowledge” – “Historische Lebenswelten in […]

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Summer issue of VPR out now!

The Summer issue of Victorian Periodicals Review is now out.  Issue 47.2 features papers by Fergus Dunne, Kirsite Blair, Michael D. Lewis, Rebecca N. Mitchell, Marina Cano-Lopez, Melissa Score, and Troy Gregory.  It also has a memorial by Richard Fulton of one RSVP’s founders, William Scheuerle.  The issue can be accessed online here. For subscription information (which includes membership of RSVP), see the VPR page.

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2014 VanArsdel Award

We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2014 VanArsdel Award: Ann Hale, a doctoral student at the University of Greenwich. Her essay, “W. T. Stead and Participatory Reader Networks in The Link and The Review of Reviews,” will appear in the Spring 2015 issue of Victorian Periodicals Review. Congratulations! For more information about the VanArsdel Award, see https://rebuild.rs4vp.org/prizes.html. A subscription to VPR, which includes membership in the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, is only $35 ($30 for students): https://www.press.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/order.cgi?oc_id=1707.

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RSVP 2014: Places, Spaces, and the Victorian Periodical Press

  The 2014 Research Society for Victorian Periodicals conference will be held at the University of Delaware’s Wilmington campus on September 12 and 13. The conference theme is “Places, Spaces and the Victorian Periodical Press.” In addition to a wide range of panels, the program will include the Michael Wolff lecture, to be given this year by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra of Ryerson University. Professor Kooistra, who also serves as Co-Director, Centre for Digital Humanities at Ryerson, will speak on the subject “Reading between the Lines of Time and Space: Remediation and the Illustrated Periodical.” The conference will also feature a […]

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