I'm writing about William Dugdale's "Satanic Mill" (err, print shop) in Wych Street today and was excited to see this featured! Three cheers for the BL for digitizing short-lived but enormously interesting periodicals like Bell's Penny Dispatch.
Exciting! 🎉My latest article is now live in ‘Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research’ @incsa.bsky.social. You can read all about influenza epidemics, alternative healing, and occult periodicals in the late 19C as part of the @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cover of Victorian Periodicals Review 58.3, Fall 2025, showing photograph of a young girl titled “Amateur Photograph of a Pretty Child: Prize Pictures,” from Woman at Home 25 (August 1908): 439–42
NEW ISSUE ALERT! We're so excited about the latest issue of VPR, which features essays on women's photography, Reynolds's Newspaper, and Walter Scott's transatlantic influence on women's magazines, along with the massive RSVP Bibliography 2020-24. ToC here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56615 @rs4vp.org
🌏 The deadline for INCSA's satellite, hybrid conferences is March 31st!
1) The 19C Legacies in East Asia in #Japan
2) Medicine, Museums, & Science Communication in the 19C in #Copenhagen
3) Reframing the 19C: Art, Heritage & Knowledge—Making in the GLAM Ecosystem in #India
Link below.
REMINDER
Help us build the SHARP 2025 Annual Bibliography!
Submit citation information for titles you published/contributed to/edited (etc) in 2025 that are "book historical" (think broadly!)
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
We are pleased to launch today a new funding programme for Fellows & Associate Fellows of the Society resident outside the UK & Ireland bit.ly/3PtDQZu
Grants support research in UK / Irish archives for our international historians. Deadline 8 May to enable research from summer 2026 #Skystorians 1/2
The letters included in Gordon Haight's magisterial nine-volume edition of George Eliot's correspondence--almost 4,000 in all--are now freely searchable online, thanks to Dr. Beverley Park Rilett and her team at the GE Archive project. tinyurl.com/48hwzu7z #Victorian
Photo of UVA library’s newly renovated reading room for current periodicals, an infrastructure of thinking and knowing
Periodicals on the shelf of UVA library’s current periodicals room, gorgeous
On recent visit to the newly renovated UVA library I was honestly moved to see *an entire room dedicated to printed periodicals* right near the entrance, a physical invitation to read actual material texts. It is possible to invest in infrastructure for thinking and knowing.
Amid the discussions about how to get kids reading, I am remembering how many comics and other periodicals I read as a kid - The Funday Times, Oink, The Puffin Post, Private Eye (I was a precocious little shit), The Beano, 2000AD etc etc. Reading in tiny little bits can be v appealing.
CFP: VPR will celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2027. We’re taking this historic occasion to capture the state of our field in a “KEYWORDS” special issue guest edited by Fionnuala Dillane, @jimmussell.bsky.social & @mdamkjaer.bsky.social. Proposals due March 30. Details: rs4vp.org/vpr-cfp-spec...
Masthead for the City of London Trade Protection Circular, that features the City of London coat of arms. It was for volume one, issue one, Saturday 15th April 1848.
The City of London Trade Protection Circular (1848-49) is today's #MastheadMonday. A specialist newspaper, it acted as an early credit-check and information sharing tool. It was published for much longer as a private circular. It’s free-to-view here: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/city-...
The next @ies-sas.bsky.social #HistoryofLibraries seminar is tomorrow, Tuesday 3rd March:
The National Lending Library for Science and Technology and its collection of Russian scientific literature in Cold War Britain
Free to attend; book now at sas.sym-online.com/registration...
Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.'
www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...
Need advice: The nxt phase of this project is creating clean OCR. I've chatted w/a few of y'all abt how to clean up the OCR, but the 1st step is where I'm stuck (1/?)
@jamescummings.bsky.social @tedunderwood.com @pfyfe.bsky.social
@rs4vp.org
Just a few more days to apply for our first round of Microgrant funding, RSVP's latest funding opportunity! Completed applications are due this Sunday, March 1. Our next cycle will open mid-April with a deadline of May 15. Apply on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/micro...
10:17pm: Completed metadata for 82 vols, literary annuals. Ready to convert into MARC XML files. Bulk upload to @archive.org imminent.
21yr dream to create public access to annuals' contents #achieved
archive.org/details/kath...
#periodicals #dh #digitalhumanities
Illustration showing two young people using a laptop and a mobile phone. The text reads: 'Social media is young people's main news source. Source: Flash Eurobarometer survey (2025)'. Visual produced by the European Parliament Research Service
📱 Social media are young people's top news source.
Young people can be especially vulnerable to online #disinformation, due to limited media literacy & heavy reliance on social media for news.
Read 👉 link.europa.eu/7drHG6
@imco.europarl.europa.eu
@syoncourtin.bsky.social @leilachaibi.bsky.social
To round out your January, please enjoy Part 2 of "Getting Started in Periodicals Research," a conversation between @c19thnewshound.bsky.social and @patrickleary.bsky.social! In this installment, Patrick talks attributions research and digitization in periodical studies. rs4vp.org/getting-star...
And a Review of Eloïse Forestier, Transnational Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Swedish Literature and Periodical Culture: Entangled Dreams and Cross-Cultural Encounters, by Gunilla Hermansson
A Review of Christian A. Bachmann and Nora Ramtke (eds), A Mixed Picture: Media Transfer and Media Competition in Illustrated Periodicals, 1840s–1960s, by Natalia Igl
A Review of Vanessa Marie Fernández, Defining and Defying Borders: Tracing Hispanism across Literary Magazines, by Lucia Campanella Casas
The issue also features 4 book reviews: Review of Kristine Moruzi, Beth Rodgers, and Michelle J. Smith (eds), Edinburgh History of Children’s Periodicals, by Maaheen Ahmed
And ‘Counting the Journals, Tracing the Networks: Three Snapshots from the History of Photographic Periodicals’, by Peter Buse
We also have two thoughtful and entertaining field notes: ‘Fanning the Flames of Feminism: Activist Periodicals, Paracodical Objects, and the Politics of Participation’, by Samuel Bibby
Before Il Verri: Milanese Avant-Garde Magazines of the 1940s and 1950s, by Paolo Giovannetti
From Britain to Italy through France: A Preliminary Survey of the News about Walter Scott Published in the Italian Gazettes of the Early Nineteenth Century, by Chiara Cremona and Andrea Penso
Qualifying Inclusion: Photo-Sharing Initiatives in Turkish Periodicals of the 1920s, by Yasemin Gencer
Reimagining the Borders of the Textual Nation: The Case of Armenian Literary Periodical Murch and Women’s Writing, by Hayarpi Papikyan
Articles included in this issue are:
‘The Last New Novel’: Valuation Strategies in Reviews of Fiction Published in the Athenaeum and the Saturday Review, 1855–59, by
Anne-Marie Millim