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Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social · 5d

Call for Contributions: Victorian Infrastructures & their Environmental Legacies

We're still looking for articles to be included in our @openlibhums.org special issue!

Abstracts are due 31 October, full texts 31 March '26.

@bavs-uk.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @asleuki.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 14d

Rachel Calder examines how The Bookseller #tradejournal laid the foundation for the communication and information system that remains at the heart of today’s global #publishing industry. Read about founder Joseph Whitaker’s innovative strategies in VPR 58.1: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Front matter from The Bookseller, January 1858, accompanied by text that says: Rachel Calder, The Bookseller, the First Modern Trade Journal, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, Spring 2025.

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 14d

After some delay on the part of yours truly 🙄 the recording of our Sept. #RSVPDigiEvent on grantscrafting is now live on YouTube. And just in time - Curran Fellowships are due in just a few short weeks on Oct. 15! Many thanks to our panelists + to Clare Horrocks for chairing! youtu.be/L5XRtqh1qoE

Applying for a Curran Fellowship: A Grants-crafting Workshop

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 16d

Drawing on a transatlantic archive, @miladaskalova.bsky.social explores the experience of time in asylum #periodicals. Learn how these publications served as instruments of both recalibration and resistance in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Front page of The Gartnavel Gazette; or Monthly Journal of the Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum, Wednesday, July 6, 1853, image courtesy of Wellcome Collection, https://wellcomecollection.org/works/jvk8aued/items?canvas=7. Accompanied by text that says: Mila Daskalova, Passing the Hours: Measuring, Recording and Experiencing Time Through Periodical Publishing in Victorian Asylums, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, Spring 2025.

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 19d

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-...

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!

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 20d

Nilkantha Pal investigates the emergence of children’s #periodicals in Bengali literary culture. Learn how these vernacular periodicals helped shape a literary selfhood among Bengali middle classes from the 1870s onward: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org #ExpandingTheField

Illustration titled “Andhamunir Putraśok” from Sandeś 2, no. 1 (Baiśāk 1321/April–May 1914), courtesy of Jadavpur University Central Library, Kolkata. Image accompanied by text that says: Nilkantha Pal, Imagining Childhood in Colonial Bengal: Children’s Periodicals, Readership, and
Vernacular Publishing, ca. 1880–1920, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, Spring 2025.

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 21d

Possibly someone our midst might be able to help?

Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 22d

Does anyone recognise this late Victorian periodical? Based on the page numbers this is obvs an article from a larger work but I can’t trace it anywhere. It’s got lots of full-page images & I’m confident for various reasons that it was produced in 1881.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 22d

In VPR 58.1 @adeleguyton.bsky.social compares Pearson’s 1897 serialization of "The War of the Worlds" to #hgwells ’s later revisions for book publication. Discover how the serial narrator underscores the value of layperson experiences to scientific knowledge: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Illustration for “The War of the Worlds” showing a man at a telescope, Pearson’s Magazine 3 (April 1897): 365. Accompanied by text that says: Adele Guyton, “A Certain Amount of Scientific Education”: Science, Sensation, and the Everyman Narrator in the Serialised War of the Worlds (1897), Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, Spring 2025.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 23d

NEW ISSUE ALERT! It's a happy day when you find the latest VPR in your mailbox. This number includes the 2024 VanArsdel and Expanding the Field essays as well as articles on asylum periodicals and the bookselling trade. Treat yourself to some delightful reading: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55567 @rs4vp.org

Cover of Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, spring 2025; burgundy background with illustration of alien aircraft from H. G. Wells's _The War of the Worlds_.

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 23d

Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship – RSVP

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to…

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Sep 5

🤩 Thanks for sharing, @triproftri.bsky.social!

Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · Sep 4

Calling all #periodicals studies peeps! Has anyone ever seen this database of India's periodicals?! www.ideasofindia.org

A colleague sent it to me as I navigate how to study India's print culture from afar - very cool!

cc @rs4vp.org

Ideas of India | The Rediscovery of India

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Sep 4

💼 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...

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.

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Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social · Sep 4

Julia Wedgwood (1833-1913) was an intellectual icon of the Victorian era ✍️
Alison Stone has created a fantastic #openaccess resource containing many of her diverse writings, inc lots of newly attributed journalism, plus a short biography and comprehensive bibliography.
www.juliawedgwood.org

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Sep 4

Working on your Curran application? Thinking about a Peterson Fellowship (applications open 15 September)? We just so happen to have a panel of experts ready to share what makes standout grant application. Join us TOMORROW for this free #RSVPDigiEvent at the usual time. Register now!

Digital Events Resume September 5 – RSVP

Join us Friday, Sept. 5 for our next Digital Event - a grants-crafting workshop on applying for a Curran Fellowship!

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Sep 2

☑️ Don't forget to vote for your preferred candidates for our two open Board positions and new Recording Secretary for the Board. Polls close THIS Friday, 5 September! Didn't get your ballot via email? Ensure your membership is active first, and if so, then contact our Communications Coordinator.

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Sep 1

✨ 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.

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…

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Aug 27

Don't forget to join us next week Friday (5 September) for our first #RSVPDigiEvent post-conference. We'll learn some tips + tricks on crafting a *standout* grant application to fund your next book project or archival research trip. Say, aren't Curran Fellowships still open? 😏 tinyurl.com/yc5fsdva

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Aug 22

📣 A quick reminder that RSVP elections open today! Voting members will receive a ballot with candidates running for our two open Board positions and Recording Secretary of the Board position by email. If you have questions, please contact our Communications Coordinator. Polls close September 5! ☑️

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Aug 21

#RSVPDigiEvents is getting into the back-to-school spirit on Friday, 5 Sept. We'll learn from our experts on how to create standout grant application, just in time for Curran and (upcoming) Peterson Fellowship season! As always, registration is free and open to all: rs4vp.org/digital-even...

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Aug 19

Congratulations to yevhenyashchuk.bsky.social, our 2025 VanArsdel Prize winner!

Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · Aug 18

Congrats to yevhenyashchuk.bsky.social for his #VanArsdelPrize winning essay “‘A Special Correspondent of the Times Sends a Telegram from Odessa’: Kyiv Newspapers, Victorian Media, and the Translation of the International Crisis in 1875–78.” Learn about VPR’s prizes at rs4vp.org/awards. @rs4vp.org

Background of gold stars with banner that says: Congratulations! 2025 VanArsdel Prize winner Yevhen Yashchuk, Wadham College, Oxford.

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Aug 16

📣 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!
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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...

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Aug 11

Another CFP that promises to interest RSVPers. /The Edinburgh History of the Radical Press: The Religious Press/ seeks original contributions by 1 Sept. 2025, for publication in 2027. Thanks for #SharingYourNews, Ian Cawood!

More details here: rs4vp.org/cfp-edinburg...

CFP - Edinburgh History of the Radical Press: The Religious Press – RSVP

Ian Cawood shares a call for contributors to a new volume on the radical religious press. Abstracts due 1 September 2025.

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Aug 8

A CFP has recently come across our digital desk that is sure to be of interest. /Women's Writing/ is celebrating 200 years of Margaret Oliphant with a special issue! Abstracts (300 words) are due 1 December 2025. Thanks for #SharingYourNews! More info here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Aug 5

🚨 JOB ALERT-The Curran Index is hiring! Editors @emilyjlm.bsky.social + Lars Atkin seek a Research Assistant to conduct archival research on /Fun/ housed at the Huntington Library. Stipend available, with applications accepted through Aug. 20! More details on our website: rs4vp.org/curran-index...

The Curran Index is Hiring! – RSVP

The Curran Index is hiring a qualified U.S.-based research assistant to conduct archival research at the Huntington Library in California.

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Aug 4

Congrats to Lois Burke on the publication of her new book, Late-Victorian Girls and Their Manuscript Magazines! 🎉 The book examines how girls' manuscript magazine cultures shaped children's journalism + early feminist discourse. Thanks for #SharingYourNews, Lois! rs4vp.org/new-book-vic...

New Book on Victorian Girls' Manuscript Magazines – RSVP

Lois Burke announces her latest open access monograph on mid-late Victorian girls' manuscript magazines!

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