A Talk by Graham Law – The RSVP Digital Events committee is delighted to welcome Graham Law into our Speaker’s Forum for our next Digital Event on April 17. Research within the Times Editorial Diaries, held in the News UK Archive in Essex, reveals that from the late 1850s the newspaper began to engage occasionally in the surreptitious practice of …
Proposals Due March 30 – In 2027, Victorian Periodicals Review will celebrate its 60th anniversary. We are taking this historic occasion to capture the state of our field in a VPR special issue on “Keywords.” We are not seeking historical overviews or to replicate the expansive, definitional work of the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism of Great Britain and Ireland (Brake and Demoor, eds., 2009). Rather, for this special issue, inspired by
This is the third and final part of our three-part inaugural Interview Series, continuing a conversation between GRIPS representative Matthew Stephens and past RSVP president and long-time supporter of all things periodicals, Patrick Leary. […]
The Forget Me Not for 1825 and 1833 – RSVP is excited to welcome Katherine D. Harris to our next Pick-a-Periodical digital event on Friday, March 6. In a talk entitled “The Racial Anxieties of Polite Culture in the Forget Me Not British Literary Annual,” they will walk us through two volumes of the periodical: 1825 and 1833. The Forget Me Not, a literary annual title that first appeared …
Announcing Our Spring #DigiEvents Line-Up We’re gearing up for a series of exceptional Digital Events this season! For those who like to plan ahead, this round-up of events allows you to register early, mark your calendar/diary, and then eagerly anticipate this slate of upcoming events. …
Our February Digital Event – For our February Digital Event, RSVP will host a roundtable of editors and contributors to an exciting new collection of essays, The Edinburgh History of the Transnational British Press in Non-Anglophone Countries, 1800-1914 (2025). Per the publisher, “This volume explores the nineteenth-century transnational British press published in non-Anglophone countries across […]
