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The Material Culture of Victorian Domestic Life and the Press The Victorian press actively shaped Victorians’ notions of domestic life around several topics: material culture, architecture, interior design, and the gendering of domestic space. In addition to the many studies of Victorian domestic life and coffee table books on Victorian […]
Call for papers: Magazines on the Move: North American Periodicals and Travel A one-day seminar hosted by the Centre for Travel Writing Studies, Nottingham Trent University, in collaboration with the Network for American Periodical Studies. Friday 22nd September 2017, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Campus Keynote speaker: Professor Andrew Thacker (Nottingham […]
Congratulations to Ian Haywood, Professor of English at the University of Roehampton, UK, who has been awarded the second Linda H. Peterson Fellowship for his project: “The Rise of Victorian Caricature: Satirical Periodicals 1830-1850”. Further details of Professor Haywood’s project can be found here.
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize is The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers co-edited by Andrew King, Alexis Easley and John Morton. The Committee, chaired by Katherine Ledbetter, describes the book as […]
Members of the RSVP community may be interested in the following CFP: ‘Editing the Twentieth Century’, The British Library. 5 September 2017 Call for Papers: What do editors actually do? What makes a good editor? And more importantly, what makes a successful editor? From the Times Literary Supplement to Les Temps Modernes […]
A memorial gathering to celebrate the life and work of Michael Jonas Wolff will be held on Sunday, February 19, 2017 at 9:30AM at the Jewish Community of Amherst. There will then be a gathering back at the Marriott Courtyard hotel for a light lunch after the service. Jessica, Jeremy […]
