As @drhorrocks.bsky.social @vicmanch.bsky.social noted, Victorianists have the opportunity of back-to-back conferences with #RSVP2026 held in Dublin, 23-25 July & #BAVS2026 held in Liverpool, 27-29 July
Too late to apply to RSVP, but submissions still open for BAVS!
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27.11.2025 09:12 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
How to Get Published in Academic Journal
📽️ The recording from our widely popular #RSVPDigiEvent "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal" is now live. We had a record-breaking 101 registrants for this panel! Since we did not quite hit that number in attendance, we know many will be interested to watch/re-watch: youtu.be/sP5Y1iicKJ0
24.11.2025 19:36 — 👍 21 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
I've submitted a proposal too Marie! Are you hopping over the water to Liverpool to join us for BAVS as well? 27 to 29 July!
21.11.2025 18:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Fantastic Long Service celebration lunch for JMU staff who have worked there for 25 years or more. Lovely to get chance to catch up with old friends and new
21.11.2025 18:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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20.11.2025 14:37 — 👍 19 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 0
The Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize – RSVP
The Colby Book Prize was endowed in 2006 in memory of Robert Colby by his wife, Vineta Colby, distinguished scholars and long-time members of RSVP. In 2011, following Vineta’s death, the Board of…
📖 Colby Book Prize nominations open today! We're accepting nominations from now until 31 Jan. 2026. The Colby Prize recognizes original book-length scholarship published in 2025 that most advances our understanding of the long #19thC British press. More info: buff.ly/LIi76WJ
15.11.2025 15:49 — 👍 5 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
Does anyone in our orbit know?
07.11.2025 21:46 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Lovely to see you, thank you so much for coming!
07.11.2025 23:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Panel 2 on Decadence, Celebrity and Social Networks at Pictorial Punch @britishlibrary.bsky.social @punchspocketbook.bsky.social Bethany Dahlstrom, myself and Jane Harrison
07.11.2025 14:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
First keynote at Pictorial Punch @britishlibrary.bsky.social from @patrickleary.bsky.social on The Education of Henry Silver @punchspocketbook.bsky.social
07.11.2025 12:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And we are off. Pictorial Punch Study Day at @britishlibrary.bsky.social @punchspocketbook.bsky.social
07.11.2025 10:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pre conference dinner at the Punch Tavern with our keynote speakers @patrickleary.bsky.social and Julia Thomas ahead of our @britishlibrary.bsky.social Study Day tomorrow @punchspocketbook.bsky.social @fbaillet.bsky.social @l19cmanmet.bsky.social
06.11.2025 21:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pater Punch, aka @patrickleary.bsky.social outside the old Punch Tavern, Fleet Street, just down from where the Punch offices were at Bouverie Street @punchspocketbook.bsky.social
06.11.2025 21:44 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
To celebrate Digital Preservation Day, we are delighted to see the first pages of the Beta @punchspocketbook.bsky.social being released. Huge thanks to the Technical team, Julia and Subha, for pushing against time to release this. More to come at our Pictorial Punch day tomorrow #unlockingarchives
06.11.2025 10:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Do come and join us in Liverpool next July, we look forward to welcoming you!
05.11.2025 22:23 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The official CFP is a few days off, but I can't wait that long to announce that #BAVS2026 will be held in Liverpool, 27-29 July. We hope that some of the @rs4vp.org crowd will be able to make the trip over from #RSVP2026 and join @bavs-uk.bsky.social for more Victorian stuff. Details to follow.
15.10.2025 10:51 — 👍 24 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1
Nearly time for our @punchspocketbook.bsky.social Pictorial Punch Study Day at @britishlibrary.bsky.social. See you Friday 7 November with @patrickleary.bsky.social, Sonja Lawrenson, Francoise Baillet and others for a stimulating day of frivolity and japes!
05.11.2025 22:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
RSVP Conference 2025 – RSVP
Dates July 10-12, 2025
Our first bit of business? Registration for #RSVP2025 is now live! You can register and find out more details about travel, accommodations, and a bird's eye view of the program, and more at our conference website! Share your enthusiasm via #VoicesandVisions conference.rs4vp.org
04.02.2025 22:24 — 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Warm welcome to all new followers! To my fellow Victorianists: the VICTORIA discussion group remains a generous, welcoming space, supportive without at all overwhelming your inbox. And the archives are a great resource. If you’re not already a member, check it out: list.iu.edu/sympa/info/v...
09.11.2024 00:02 — 👍 43 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 2
Thanks, Beth! This is enormously useful, particularly to independent researchers, and a welcome complement to the much more modest but also helpful Open Access 19th-c. Periodicals list: www.victorianresearch.org/openaccesspe...
14.11.2024 12:48 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Please add me!
14.11.2024 23:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2025 Conference - Liverpool John Moores University — Britain and the World
It’s time, friends! We welcome submissions for #batw2025 in Liverpool, UK. Join us at John Moores University 25-27 June 2025 for another great conference!
We can’t wait to see you there! Watch here for more info.
britainandtheworld.org/2025
12.11.2024 00:13 — 👍 41 🔁 29 💬 0 📌 1
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Prof. of British History and Culture at @universite-caen.bsky.social
Victorianist. Newspapers & magazines. Labour and the illustrated press.
Principal Investigator (PI) of @punchspocketbook.bsky.social.
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Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.
Midlands4Cities-funded PhD student at the University of Leicester. Studying Victorian periodicals (mainly Punch), and digital humanities.
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Punch's Pocket Book Archive is an international digital project based at @universite-caen.bsky.social
It aims to deliver a fully searchable archive from a complete run of Punch's Pocket Books (1843-1881), an ancillary publication of Punch magazine.
An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire throughout the long nineteenth century.
Exploring intersections between literature and psychiatry in the 19th century as a British Academy and LKAS Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Glasgow / Medical Humanities Research Centre. Into literature, the history of medicine, and book history.
By day: literary historian and editor for hire. By night: historian and enthusiast of Chartism, 19thC British writing and politics, sausage rolls, and women's, workers', queer and trans rights ✊ she/her, views own
drvicclarke.co.uk
PhD student at Edge Hill University & The British Library, researching the nineteenth-century press, focussing on short-lived newspapers. Funded by the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme.
Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne. I have a database of >25k Victorian novels: www.victorianresearch.org/atcl
Book historian. Special interests in history books (as material objects) and Eliza Orme (Victorian lawyer). Past president of SHARP (2009-2013).
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Assistant Professor | c.19 Studies | Editorial Team @esprit-jeps.bsky.social
❤️ editing texts 🎤 💃 Montréalaise in Nijmegen, Nederland
Dissertation doula • accompagnante au dépôt de thèse • hulp bij het afronden van je proefschrift
Book history • histoire du livre • boekgeschiedenis
Tech Lead @ Knowledge Commons/MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
Lead Curator, News & Moving Image at the British Library. Researcher of press history, military-media relations, and social and literary history in the long 19th century. Views all my own.
# Chartism #C19th Radicalism #Cooperation #TradesUnions, #WorkingClassLiterature with forays into #Cricket #Punk & #Reggae & a reviving interest in Torquay United FC #COYY
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