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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.

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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    📌 0
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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 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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
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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
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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).

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

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

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