I chatted about my article in my interview on Radio New Zealand today. Link below if you want to listen www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Please send proposals of 250 words and a short biography to Tim Lanzendörfer tlanzend@em.uni-frankfurt.de and Adam McKible amckible@gmail.com by January 15.

... and there is still much to learn about this nexus of American periodicals and Black creativity.

We welcome papers that shed new light on the Harlem Renaissance in relationship to the periodical culture of the era.

... and to editors such as Jesse Redmon Fauset, Alain Locke, or W. E. B. Du Bois. Like modernists more generally, the artists and writers of the Harlem Renaissance developed their work inside a rich culture of magazines, newspapers, and other periodicals ...

Black interwar modernism—to borrow from Robert Scholes and Clifford Wulfman—“happened in the magazines.” No account of the Harlem Renaissance is complete without reference to periodicals such as the Crisis, the Survey Graphic, or the New York Age ...

The Harlem Renaissance and/in Periodicals

American Literature Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026

Organized by the Research Society for American Periodicals

And there was me thinking county pride and identity are dead. The comments suggest otherwise.

Why Jane Austen readers still leave letters at her graveside I was also amazed to discover a basket by Austen’s graveside which was overflowing with handwritten letters.

My article on letters left by Austen’s grave has been published @theconversation.com Thanks to @annalouwalker.bsky.social for her help.

theconversation.com/why-jane-aus...

Gen Zine: DIY publications find new life as a form of resistance against Trump Zines have made a resurgence as communities seek to share information on everything from ICE raids to local elections

Gen Zine: DIY publications find new life as a form of resistance against Trump www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Research Grants - The Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire

Only 4 days left to apply for our grants, for education activities (£300), publications (£500) and research (£500), deadline 31 October.
For activities related to the history of Lancashire & Cheshire (inc Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Furness).
www.hslc.org.uk/grants-prize...

Your La vie Parisienne cover by birth month. On left is an image of a woman in a billowing shirt, breeches and striped stockings and a jaunty hat, holding an artists palette. On right in an Amazon, clad in helmet and Minoan style two-piece, brandishing spear and shield

Your La Vie Parisienne cover by birth month.

Some silliness from the historical periodicals for your #Friday. #c19th

New research on an English regional magazine ...

Foul! A great read here ⬇️

Save the date! Organizing an online “People’s Papers” workshop on Sept 30th to hear from projects in Leeds (@rememberlop.bsky.social), Liverpool and Birmingham: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-... @wcmlibrary.bsky.social

New blog post with an update on the "People's Papers" archival research project up now on the @wcmlibrary.bsky.social website!

wcml.org.uk/blog/a-peek-...

A Blast from the Stacks: An interview with Bob Dickinson - Working Class Movement Library Drawing from his own experiences writing for some of these papers as well as in-depth interviews with a range of different projects, Bob’s book traces the development and evolution of Greater Manchest...

A Blast from the Stacks!

Read the latest update from The People's Papers as Arielle Lawson, a PhD student participating in the University of Manchester's Humanities PGR Placement Scheme at the library, interviews Bob Dickinson, author of Imprinting the Sticks.

wcml.org.uk/blog/a-blast...

White tile with a square black outline anchored with open and closed quotation marks. Within is a quote which reads, "These pages showcase a rich and varied record of community engagement and culture that would otherwise be undiscoverable." Signed Liz Paulus, Cedar Mill & Bethany Community Libraries.

What if your town’s culture vanished overnight?

Libraries are capturing online pages that showcase community life, preserving the web we built

Learn more in our blog ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/08/27/p...

Front pages of many local alternative and community newspapers - Archiving the people's papers - learning from Leeds, Liverpool & Birmingham

Looking forward to this online event in September, thanks to @feministcity.bsky.social, @wcmlibrary.bsky.social among others.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-...

More Than Nostalgia: The Subversive Cultural Legacy Of Urdu Magazines Must Be Protected More Than Nostalgia: The Subversive Cultural Legacy Of Urdu Magazines Must Be Protected Once central to India’s literary and cultural life, Urdu magazines have disappeared, leaving behind not just a...

Interesting article by Anahita Ahluwalia about the decline of Urdu-language magazines in India, including some great covers.

homegrown.co.in/homegrown-cr...

Magazine cover showing young woman in bath, caressing a tap!

More from the European Society for Periodicals Research (ESPRit):

On Monday 23 June, Céline Mansanti will give an online talk on 'La Vie Parisienne in the 1920s US: “New Puritanism”, Censorship and Self-Censorship'

Free registration link here: www.espr-it.eu/esprit/event...

Join us tomorrow (Friday) for the 1st in a new series of online events for each new issue of the Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS).

"Periodicals & Belonging"
Fri 20 June 2025
15:00 CET (2pm UK)
Free and open to all

Here's the registration link: www.espr-it.eu/esprit/event...

Readers & literary scholars, do you know any novels where a #port / #harbour plays a central or at least important role?
(any period, any language)
#literature

Sounds interesting!

2024-25 Seminar Series : February Gender & Spirituality in the Long Nineteenth Century 27 February 2025, 17.30-19.00 BST (online) Register for the event HERE The PGR/ECR Long Nineteenth Century Interdisciplinary Research Group …

Join the latest online seminar from PGR/ECR L19C Interdisciplinary Research Group, organised by PGR/ECRs @manmetuni.bsky.social.
Ana Orbegozo (Spanish Nat Uni for Long Distance Ed) ‘Victorian Women Reimagining God’ – Th 27/02 17.30 GMT Register for free: long19century.wordpress.com/seminars/202...

Periodical Famines Irish Memories in Transatlantic News Media, 1845-1919

We are really looking forward to our Annual Lecture
'Periodical Famines: Irish Memories in Transatlantic News Media, 1845-1919' by the brilliant Dr Lindsay Janssen (Radboud University)! @nlireland.bsky.social 6:30pm-7:30pm 28 Feb 2025! Book your free tickets here www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

Thanks for all the chapter proposals. We are wading through them at the moment and will get back to you soon.

Looking forward to speaking at this conference in March and hearing all the other fantastic papers.

Proposal deadline is this week!

Modernism and Data Special Issue: Call for Papers 27 September 2024 “A New World of Information”: Modernism and Data Modernism has a problem with data. Within adjacent fields—Victorian, Post45, and Black studies—there has been a proliferation of a…

We're pleased to announce a deadline extension for the 'Modernism and Data' Special Issue! The new deadline is January 20th. See below for the CFP:

modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/m...

We have received some really good proposals so far. Keep them coming!