RSVP Microgrants – RSVP Microgrants are seed grants designed to support new research projects and/or explore ideas in the field of nineteenth-century British/empire periodical studies. The Microgrants scheme was established ...

Round 2 of our new Microgrants program is now open! These seed grants of up to $300 USD support exploratory projects, archival travel, or digital tool subscriptions. The deadline for this round is May 15. More information and application info can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/micro...

Part of the current trend to see everything in summary is the lack of awareness that great writing tends to already be in its simplest, most accessible form. It may simply take 800 pages to state the simplest version of some ideas.

How to Get Published in Academic Journal YouTube video by Research Society for Victorian Periodicals

📽️ The recording from our widely popular #RSVPDigiEvent "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal" is now live. We had a record-breaking 101 registrants for this panel! Since we did not quite hit that number in attendance, we know many will be interested to watch/re-watch: youtu.be/sP5Y1iicKJ0

RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or…

Just 6 days left to get your #RSVP2026 proposals in! We hope you'll contemplate "Movements & Migrations" in and through the #19thC periodical press with us this summer @tcddublin.bsky.social. Our CFP deadline is THIS upcoming Friday, 21 November!

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📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...

I need help finding scans of _Boys of England_ vol. 1, issues 1-? (early issues, 1866). If you are able to help, please message me. Thank you!

Oct. Digital Event: "From Periodicals to Dailies" – RSVP Our October DigiEvent features a talk by editors of the Curran Index on the joys and challenges of archival plenitude. Join us October 17!

Our next #RSVPDigiEv is about a month away! Join us Oct. 17 to hear about recent updates to the Curran Index from editors @emilyjlm.bsky.social+Lars Atkin in a talk, "From Periodicals to Dailies: Attribution Scholarship and the Joys and Challenges of Archival Plenitude." rs4vp.org/oct-digital-...

Lead the Curran Index as Our New Editor – RSVP RSVP seeks a new Editor or Editors to lead the Curran Index! Applications should be sent to VP Alison Chapman by October 15.

💼 We're hiring! RSVP seeks a new Editor or pair of Co-Editors to lead the Curran Index into its next phase. Many many thanks to our outgoing Editors, @emilyjlm.bsky.social+Lars Atkin for their dedication to this ongoing DH project. Applications due 15 October! rs4vp.org/curran-edito...

RSVP generously supports Periodicals research through several grants competitions. Maybe one fits your project!

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I'm excited to announce that I've been elected to the Board of Directors for the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals! Eager to work more closely with the members of this awesome society!

The Curran Fellowships – RSVP The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...

📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website!
rs4vp.org/awards/curra...

RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or…

✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.

I'm running for a board position, so remember to vote by today!

New #FanStudies article ⬇️ ⬇️⬇️

Zhang, L.-T. (2024). From subculture to mainstream: Nostalgia, criticism and negotiation in a fan community. Convergence, 31(4), 1366-1382.

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Explore the latest peer-reviewed articles and learn how to publish your work in Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research.

This is another routine reminder that our journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social is actively seeking proposals for themed issues. Do get in touch with me directly if you are interested in submitting a proposal.

Journal details 👇
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Rapid City is RAP

Victorian Popular Fictions volume 7 issue 1 (Spring 2025) Table of Contents ArticlesCarolyn W de la L Oulton. Call that Reading? Creative Approaches to Literary Studies and Literary HeritageChristine Choi. Sanctimonious or Sensational? Ellen Wood, the “Go…

The latest issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal has dropped! It is open access, as always: victorianpopularfiction.org/publications...

Hot on the heels of #RSVP2025, here is the latest from the field, a fitting continuation of the wonderful work you, our dear followers, do on a daily basis! Give it a read!

Prof Camlot stands in front of his PowerPoint, which features two pages of the 19thC Chicago periodical The Elecutionist.

Enjoying Prof Jason Camelot's Wolff lecture on voice, sound, and elocution in the 19thC American periodical press. Periodicals were serialised textbooks for oratory schools and election performances, as correspondence courses. But why is Chicago seemingly the hub for public speakers? #RSVP2025

Can you add me to the starter pack?

I do my teaching and scholarship during regular work-day hours. Is there always more to do? Yes, but clocking off for the evening and weekends has not hindered my productivity and has made my life much richer.

Just adding that it’s very insane that the situation has deteriorated to where repeating postwar Anglo-American boilerplate abt knowledge in a democratic society is a take!

“It is good for students to learn actual things from trained experts!” [thrown in a gulag]

Terrific panel on C19 periodical advertising at #rsvp2025. Here’s one of @vjctorianist.bsky.social ‘s slides, showing adverts vs sales in the Northern Star. #19th-c #victorian

A photograph is Chinese labourers arriving at work in 1890s.

Fascinating work from Ge Tang on photography of Chinese gold labourers in the journal South Africa. The 'modernity' of photography is used as a PR strategy to mask the slave-like conditions of indentured labourers in the Transvaal. #RSVP2025 #VoicesVisions

Delighted to see a paper on "The String of Pearls: A Romance" from Edward Lloyd's *The People's Periodical and Family Library* (1846-1847)!

Paulina Hernández-Trejo looks at representations of empire and racial capitalism, leading to legitimate and illegitimate cannibalisms.

#RSVP2025 #BookHistory

The title is Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation by Tara MacDonald.

So excited to read this!

Victorian Popular Fictions 7.1 8 Butler-Way Helena Esser, Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, 248 pp. HB £85.00. ISBN: 9781350433908 Reviewed by Emma Butler-Way Downlo…

Exciting new issue of VPFJ is now out in the world, featuring my review for Helena Esser's fantastic Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory. I'm a big fan. Get your libraries on it.
@vpfa.bsky.social @helenaesser.bsky.social
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Good lectures are good! Humanities professors have expertise, because they’ve trained for many years, + their slowly-acquired thus *real* knowledge is compelling, relevant, even sometimes life-changing! This should all be lavishly funded bc access to truth is @ the basis of a free & just society

Conference Program – RSVP This year’s conference will take place in person, with some synchronous hybrid components to include colleagues who have elected to present their research virtually. All keynote addresses and the…

Last day of #VoicesVisions! 😭 Amidst our panels + coffee breaks, the AGM is at 12:30 in Kasbeer Hall. We'll wrap up our day with our annual Wolff Lecture by Jason Camlot at 4pm, also in Kasbeer. Stick around to hear where we're headed for #RSVP2026!