Punch's Pocket Book Archive

Sounds really fascinating!

15.09.2025 17:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What's not to like about this amazing opportunity for a dedicated periodicals studies scholar! Apps due by Oct 15.

05.09.2025 02:31 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or…

✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.

01.09.2025 14:49 — 👍 15    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 3

Front pages of many local alternative and community newspapers - Archiving the people's papers - learning from Leeds, Liverpool & Birmingham

Looking forward to this online event in September, thanks to @feministcity.bsky.social, @wcmlibrary.bsky.social among others.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-...

28.08.2025 10:28 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Lewis Carroll's original sepia ink illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/carroll-illustrations-for-alice-undergound @britishlibrary

27.08.2025 16:46 — 👍 78    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 2

Only a few days left to register for our "Pictorial Punch - Treasures from the Archive" study day, to be held at the #BritishLibrary on November 7.

Information and registration here: pictorial-punch.sciencesconf.org/registration

25.08.2025 19:26 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Pictorial Punch - Treasures from the Archive - Sciencesconf.org

Pleased to announce that registration for the "Pictorial Punch - Treasures from the Archive" study day at the British Library (Nov. 7, 2025) is now open.
Information can be found on the event website, including a link to the registration page. Please note that the registration deadline is 31 August

23.06.2025 06:21 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Transnational Popular Print in the Long Nineteenth Century: Reading Across Borders, Genres and Histories On Wednesday April 2nd, Manchester Metropolitan University hosted the engaging hybrid research seminar “Transnational Popular Print in the Long Nineteenth Century.” Drawing together scholars from across the university and beyond, the event explored the international networks, subversive aesthetics and marginalised voices...

Thx to our amazing intern Ellie Croot for her post on the @punchspocketbook.bsky.social blog re LNCN's latest research event. Ellie soon starts a new research internship at the University of Oxford on 'Slave Trade and Plantation Management: The Barham Papers (1792-1820)'. 👏
ppbka.hypotheses.org/1711

02.06.2025 20:01 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

CFP: Special VPR Issue (Winter 2026) – RSVP Call for proposals for a special issue of VPR honoring the late Brian Maidment! Proposals due May 15, 2025 and will be published Winter 2026.

CFP: Essays in Honor of Brian Maidment (Proposals due May 15; Essays due Nov. 1). Guest editors Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge invite proposals for a special issue of VPR. For full details, visit rs4vp.org/cfp-vpr-spec... @rs4vp.bsky.social

11.04.2025 16:51 — 👍 10    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1

Punch's Pocket Book Archive team is thrilled to announce that we have received a grant from the @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social for the organisation of our 'Pictorial Punch – Treasures from the Archive' study day at the britishlibrary.bsky.social

CFP available here: eribia.unicaen.fr/evenement/pi...

26.03.2025 19:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Pictorial Punch – Treasures from the Archive · ERIBIA - Équipe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la Grande-Bretagne, l'Irlande et l'Amérique du Nord Pictorial Punch – Treasures from the Archive November 7, 2025 - The British Library, London, UK. Confirmed keynote speakers: Dr. Patrick Leary, historian

The Punch's Pocket Archive team is organising a study day at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social on November 7, 2025, and we would be delighted to receive a paper proposal from you!

“Pictorial Punch – Treasures from the Archive”

The call is available here:
eribia.unicaen.fr/evenement/pi...

10.03.2025 10:29 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2

Pleased as Punch to discover these wonderful (but hitherto unlisted) collections in @universite-caen.bsky.social's Victorian collections!

05.03.2025 17:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Patrick Leary Field Development Grant – RSVP The Patrick Leary Field Development Grant is named for long-time RSVP supporter, Board member and former President, Patrick Leary. It is intended to support one scholar or a team of researchers in…

There's still time to get your Leary Grant proposal in! Leary Grants provide a single researcher or a team of researchers with 💲 to build resources that enhance our understanding of the #19thCpress. Applications are due *March 15* at 11:59 p.m. PST!

03.03.2025 13:22 — 👍 2    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

Definitely worth adding to your weekend reading. Brian's work and leadership is truly foundational to our present understanding of the #19thcpress, not to mention the collegiality of RSVP

28.02.2025 16:36 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Wonderful findings in Punch's Pocket Book today: a child's multicoloured collage and a student's sketches (1879 & 1880). Also found: a coded message!

25.02.2025 18:47 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Cover of VPR 57.1-2, burgundy background with photograph of Shevantibai Nikambe from a signed copy of her book, Ratanbai: A Sketch of a Bombay High Caste Hindu Young Wife (London: Marshall Brothers, 1895).

Check your mailbox for a new issue of VPR! This double issue is packed with exciting scholarship, including our VanArsdel and Expanding the Field Prize winners and a Roots of RSVP interview with Brian Maidment. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54262 @rs4vp.bsky.social

13.02.2025 17:44 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

A Victorian take on gender terminology from Punch's Pocket Book for 1854.

19.02.2025 18:20 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0