Is there any meaningful literature on the paper trade in the late Ottoman Empire (second half of the 19th century onwards) that I might have missed? I tried all keywords I could think off in the common databases for scholarly literature and searched through works on the history of printing and […]
As @drhorrocks.bsky.social @vicmanch.bsky.social noted, Victorianists have the opportunity of back-to-back conferences with #RSVP2026 held in Dublin, 23-25 July & #BAVS2026 held in Liverpool, 27-29 July
Too late to apply to RSVP, but submissions still open for BAVS!
#BookHistory #PeriodicalStudies
Just submitted my proposal entitled "Worldwide fin-de-siècle scam ad syndication: the case of the Morse Manufacturing Company"!
Which other #BookHistory and #PeriodicalStudies scholars are hoping to meet up in Dublin?
Has any #BookHistory or #PeriodicalStudies scholar joined the Open Science Network pilot?
"Federate with Mastodon and Bluesky and integrate your social graph with scholarly data. Transform any conversation into citable FAIR data with persistent identifiers."
Promising for scholarly communication!
This week I have been digging around in the #InternetArchive looking for digitised Arabic periodicals. With a bit of #Rstats and far too many hours with #XSLT and #TEI/XML spent on identifying titles based on the very patchy metadata provided by uploaders, there are quite some exciting finds […]
While I thoroughly enjoy the wealth of old Arabic periodicals on the Internet Archive, I am also frustrated by the state of metadata. Why do people laboriously upload thousands of individual issues but provide nothing but the **one-word** title? Don’t they want the material to be found? Is there […]
I’ve just seen this fantastic work worth highlighting during #OAWeek: Somebody is uploading scans of Palestinian periodicals to the @internetarchive at scale […]
I also wrote a #SPARQL quer to see the linguistic composition of the periodical press until 1930 at all locations with titles published in languages of the Eastern Mediterranean: #Arabic, #Ottoman, #Armenian, #Coptic, #Greek, #Farsi, #Ladino, #Azerbaijani […]
Of course a map is nice to have, but a simple table might often be the more useful thing. So I just wrote the #SPARQL to query #Wikidata for all Arabic periodicals published before 1930 with indicators whether there are known holdings and digitised collections. The table allows to quickly search […]
How do you know a text about China published in an Arabic journal in Cairo in 1907 is a translation from a Western language in Latin script? The Arabic transcriptions of Chinese names do not make sense phonetically. Take for example "جريدة سهان باو التي تصدر في مدينة شنغاي وهي التي أسست سنة […]
Another #BookHistory #PeriodicalStudies CFP: this time for #RSVP2026!
🗓️ Applications Due November 1
It's out, #BookHistory and #PeriodicalStudies peeps!
Here's the CFP for the 14th annual ESPRit conference: “Periodicals and the World”
🗓️ Deadline is 7 January 2026
👉 events.vub.be/periodicals-...
East View's Global Press Archive is a wonderful resource for anybody interested in periodical studies outside the Global North or anybody interested in the history of the societies covered by this corpus. They even provide a union list of all titles for download! But why, oh why, would they […]
Zur Abwechslung mal etwas Inhaltliches anlässlich des Historikertages. Was weiß #Wikidata über die Vielsprachigkeit von Periodikapublikationen an einzelnen Orten, an denen auch Periodika in Sprachen Westasiens publiziert wurden? […]
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Speaking of Médias 19, the third conference will take place 18-20 May 2026 in Montpellier.
CFP deadline: 1 October 2025
Tell all your #PeriodicalStudies French-language friends!
Stanislava Barać's article with Zorana Simić appeared last year in the Journal of European #PeriodicalStudies, an #OpenAccess journal. It focuses on the Popular Front in Yugoslavia and one of its feminist magazines.
#ESPRit2025
#PeriodicalStudies are used to periodicals publishing correspondents' letters (which these Syrian women's magazines also did), but the editor of the women's magazine al-Marʻah al-jadīdah organized a sewing contest, demonstrating actual *physical* ties between the editor and her readers.
#ESPRit2025
Ahead of #ESPRit2025 next week (3-5 September) in Málaga, I've gone through the programme and searched every name on here.
It seems like there's 9 of us. You can find us all in this starter pack!
#BookHistory #PeriodicalStudies
I just added holding information on 100+ Arabic periodicals from the National Library of Israel to #Wikidata (many are marked as belonging “to the Absentee Property Collection (AP)” in the MARC files from the catalogue. This significantly extends the coverage of pre-Nakba Palestinian periodicals […]
Illustration titled “Scenes in the Courtyard of the Tuileries,” from Illustrated London News, March 4, 1848, 139. Image shows drawing of a revolutionary mob carrying weapons, flag, drum, and wine bottles. Accompanied by text that says: Camille Stallings, “Seriality and Characterisation in the Press: Death Club Sensationalism, the 1848 Revolutions, and Reviews of Mary Barton,” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2024.
Drawing on #PeriodicalStudies, #narratology, and #MediaTheory, Camille Stallings reveals the structures of anti-working-class bias in a range of journalistic genres. See how narrative techniques shape public opinion about the working classes in VPR 57.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
This is a first: فروق was an Ottoman newspaper published in Athens in 1911. But apparently they didn’t have access to movable-type and lithographed a handwritten paper using a printed template to print into.
Facsimiles are available from HTU at […]
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Super interesting for those of us doing work on 19c periodicals & wood engravings. The workflow for this project is also described, which is helpful as I think about how to do this with 1000 images from the literary annuals we're scanning!
#bookhistory
#periodicalstudies
#digitalhumanities
Does anybody know the history of the Judeo-Arabic press in #India? #Wikidata provides a number of locations beyond the common north-African centre: https://tinyurl.com/wikidata-judeo-arabic-press
#PeriodicalStudies #Arabic
