In the run-up to International Women’s Day 2024 (March 8), Dr. Clare Horrocks, along with Emily Parsons (LJMU Archivist and Special Collections Librarian) and Anne Foulkes (Digital Content Creator), will discuss the Women of Punch Exhibition held at Liverpool John Moores’ University Special Collections and Archives.
Inspired by the Curran Index and author-attribution projects (as discussed at a recent RSVP Digital Event), Dr. Horrocks has, since 2014, been building a digital exhibition space to showcase the women contributors of Punch. At this talk, Dr. Horrocks and associates will take us through the Exhibition, reflecting on the processes used to curate it, and opportunities to use the digital space to ‘pierce the curtain of anonymity’ (Simons, 2021). The Women of Punch will be continually updated as colleagues and researchers make new discoveries about women identified.
Please join us from the unveiling of this ongoing project, one that is collaborative at its core for, as Dr. Horrocks and team describe it, only when ‘some descriptive matter can be attached to a name’ can we really start to understand the social and professional networks in which they operated (Simons, 2021).
Join us next Friday, March 1!
We’ll convene at the normal time (8 a.m. PST / 11 a.m. EST / 4 p.m. FMT / 5 p.m. CET) and normal “space” (on Zoom). As always, RSVP Digital Events are free and open to the public, through registration is required to receive the Zoom link.
More About the Project
Dr. Clare Horrocks is a Cultural Historian from Liverpool John Moores University, specialising in research on the Victorian periodical press, specifically Punch. Developing her collaboration with Gale Cengage and the transcription of the Punch Contributor Ledgers, she is now working with the editors of the Curran Index on a major project identifying the women contributors to the magazine. A series of events and publications are planned for 2024 to mark the tenth anniversary of Gale’s Punch Historical Archive being released. She has published widely on Punch and is a member of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, also serving as a Submissions Editor for Victorian Periodicals Review.