The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is pleased to announce this year’s call for submissions for the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize, awarded to the scholarly book that most advances the understanding of the nineteenth-century British newspaper or periodical press. Additional information about the prize is available here. To nominate a book or to raise an enquiry, please email the chair of the Prize Committee, Laurel Brake (l.brake@bbk.ac.uk), by December 31st, 2013. Further information available from our practical guide here.
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Gale Fellowship
RSVP is pleased to announce the fourth annual Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship, made possible by the generosity of publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, in support of dissertation research that makes substantial use of full-text digitized collections of 19th-century British magazines and newspapers. A prize of $1500 will be awarded, together with one year’s passworded subscription to selected digital collections from Gale, including 19th Century UK Periodicals and 19th Century British Library Newspapers. Closing date 1 November 2013. For further information please click here.