Posts related to interesting and/or important finds from the archive or while doing periodical research
By Gillian Walters, RSVP Graduate Representative
I was very nervous before going to the British Library archive, not of the journey to London — I had grown up not too far away from the city so know it quite well — but I was worried about not making a fool of myself and accidentally damaging precious items. The archives seemed to be something distant and mysterious …
By Patrick Leary This year the Curran Index has a special holiday surprise for Victorianists everywhere. In this latest update from longtime editor Gary Simons, the names of the authors of tens of thousands of unsigned contributions to three hugely influential Victorian periodicals — Punch, the Athenaeum, and the Saturday Review — are […]
by Flore Janssen The Salvation Army and its Archive At first glance The Salvation Army may seem like a world unto itself. The global church and charity grew out of the East London Christian Mission begun by preachers William and Catherine Booth in 1865. It is characterised by its own […]
By Emily Bell and M. H. Beals Just as the nineteenth-century newspaper was a messy object, filled with an ever-changing mix of material in an innumerable number of amorphous layouts, working with the structures of digitised newspapers is no different. While a user approaching a digitised newspaper collection through a […]
Jennifer Wood recently finished her Masters degree and is hoping to begin a PhD in 2018 to continue her work. She is researching the history of divorce in Victorian literature and its role in pushing the boundaries of decency in Victorian culture and hopes to expand into transcontinental studies […]
Quintus van Galen is a PhD candidate at Edge Hill University, working on the application of computerised textual analysis to historical questions in periodical studies. His thesis will focus on the methodological viability of such analyses within historiography, by the use of a case study on imperial identity in […]
