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We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2026 Robert & Vineta Scholarly Book Prize! The Colby Book Prize recognizes book-length scholarship published during the preceding year that most advances our understanding of the nineteenth-century press of Britain and its empire. The committee has shortlisted the following three books for their excellent scholarship on periodicals of the long nineteenth century. The winner will be …
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals invites those attending the upcoming 2026 conference of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) to our sponsored panel, Rethinking the Profession of Journalism and Authorship in/through Periodical Studies” on June 4 at 10:30 a.m. local time. Recent work on nineteenth-century periodicals (including newspapers and magazines), invites …
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Martin Hewitt as the new Editor of the Curran Index. On the unanimous recommendation of the RSVP Board of Directors, Professor Hewitt will assume the editorship for a five-year term beginning 1 January 2026. RSVP extends its sincere thanks to both outgoing editors, Lars Atkin and Emily Middleton, for …
A Retrospective – The Punch’s Pocket Book Archive team (Françoise Baillet [PI], Clare Horrocks, Sonja Lawrenson, Bethany Qualls, Julia Roger, and Subha-Sree Pasupathy) hosted a study day at the British Library on 7 November 2025 and share the following retrospective on the day’s activities. …
Did you know that the first black newspaper editor in Britain lived in Victorian times? And that he was famous in his day, publishing hundreds of thousands of words and speaking before tens of thousands of audience members on key social and philosophical issues of his day? This figure was …
Along with her co-editors, Isabelle Richet is delighted to announce the publication of The Edinburgh History of the Transnational British Press in Non-Anglophone Countries, 1800-1914, co-edited by Diana Cooper-Richet and Isabelle Richet, with Jennifer Hayward and Michelle Prain-Brice (Edinburgh UP, 2025). Part of EUP’s History of the British Press series, the volume brings together a team of international scholars to offer the first comprehensive study of …
