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Congratulations to Our 2023 Award Winners!

RSVP is pleased to announce the winners of our 2023 grants, fellowships, and prizes! Our Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize Winner We are very happy to announce that the winner of our third-ever Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize is Mila Daskalova for her dissertation, “Printing and Periodical Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Asylum”! The dissertation examines periodicals printed in mental asylums in the United States and Britain between 1836 and 1878, and was described by the adjudicating committee as “exemplifying periodical scholarship of the highest tier. […] It generates a rich new understanding of how such periodicals operated in the asylum context—as a […]

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Come Discuss Altick’s The Shows of London on June 9

Join us for the next RSVP Digital Events event on Friday, June 9 at 4 p.m. London / 11 a.m. EDT / 8 a.m. PDT, when we will host an informal reading group and discussion of three chapters from Richard Altick’s The Shows of London (1978). “What did nineteenth-century readers respond to that later readers have trouble discerning? The short answer, I believe, is spectacle.” Stephen Arata “People mutht be amuthed.” Mr. Sleary The Shows of London is a remarkable archive of the spectacles nineteenth-century audiences loved and how they intersected with periodical culture. For the first RSVP Digital Events […]

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Next “Pick-A-Periodical” Digital Event Next Friday, 5 May

Join the RSVP Digital Events committee for our next “Pick-A-Periodical” event on May 5 at 10 a.m. CST / 11 a.m. EST / 4 p.m. GMT! During this informal session, our host Patrick Leary will open up a discussion on a fascinating but little-known trade journal, Press News. Everyone in the periodicals trade called it “Press News,” but the full title of this now obscure periodical bristled with broader ambitions: “The London, Colonial, and Provincial Press News.”  In an almost 50-year run that began in 1866, Press News aimed to be much more than simply a trade journal for the […]

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Congratulations to Our 2023 Curran Fellows

Our 2023 Curran Fellows have been chosen! RSVP received many strong proposals for this year’s Curran Fellowship competition. 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 inspired by her pioneering research on Victorian periodicals, the Fellowships are awarded annually. Join us in congratulating the successful applications of: Congratulations to all!

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2023 Colby Scholarly Book Prize Winner Announced

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is delighted to announce the Winner of the2023 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize, awarded annually to the book,published in the preceding year that most advances our understanding of the nineteenth-century press. The Colby Book Prize was endowed in 2006 in memory of Robert Colby by his wife, VinetaColby, both distinguished scholars and long-time members of RSVP. In 2011, following Vineta’sdeath, the Board of Directors of RSVP unanimously voted to re-name the prize to honorboth Robert and Vineta Colby for their many fine contributions to the study of Victorianperiodicals and their long commitment […]

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Subscribe to the RSVP Newsletter

Stay up-to-date with the latest research and exciting opportunities related to the fascinating world of Victorian periodicals with RSVP’s monthly newsletter. As an international research society dedicated to the study of nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines, we’re proud to support and facilitate research on all aspects of Victorian periodicals. Whether you’re a seasoned researcher or just starting to explore the world of Victorian media, our newsletter is an invaluable resource that will inform and inspire you. All RSVP members are subscribers to the monthly newsletter. Become an RSVP member today and join our community of Victorian periodicals researchers! Want to Get […]

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