The front page of the Daily Graphic newspaper published Saturday 25 August, 1917, featuring portraits of 'Women in the Order of the British Empire', including Lady Byron, the honourable Mrs Alfred Lyttelton, Her Majesty the Queen.
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An automaton fuelled by tomes of newly available knowledge sweeps away the old society. No, not a self-portrait by ChatGPT in the style of a Georgian satirical print, but one of several “March of Intellect” cartoons published ca. 1828: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/march-of-the-intellect
03.01.2026 20:46 — 👍 77 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1
On left, burgundy background with text that says: Sofie Vandepitte, “Images of Welsh Seaside Tourism in Punch, or the London Charivari, 1841–1900,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 2, summer 2025. On right, illustration of crowded tourist spot titled “Mr. Punch Visits Scarborough Spa,” from Punch, or the London Charivari, October 10, 1891, 178, HathiTrust Digital Library, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$c190182.
In VPR 58.2, Sofie Vandepitte dives into Punch’s satire of British #seaside #tourism for the elite and lower classes. Discover how #Punch represented Welsh resorts as loci of both decadence and primitiveness: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
19.12.2025 20:30 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Working on Victorian graphic art often brings wonderful surprises like this sketch of Alice and the dodo in one of Tenniel's sketchbooks, ca. 1865.
From the Harry Elkins Widener collection at the Houghton Library, @harvard.edu
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Pleased as Punch to see that our retrospective of the "Pictorial Punch - Treasures from the Archives" study day we held at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social last month is now online on @rs4vp.org's website! Wonderful speakers, keynotes and audience. Thank you all!
12.12.2025 22:43 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Just a cat playing with a yarn ball, in a pocket book.
From John Leech's frontispiece to Punch's Pocket Book for 1852.
03.12.2025 19:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Mr Ritchee's dinner - Where I almost took too much wine. Very good."
W. M. Thackeray, almost drunk.
Punch's Pocket Book for 1856, at the NYC Public Library.
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Dickens's chair and desk, here at the New York Public Library.
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Punch's Pocket Book entry of the day:
"Music at home. Used 12 sherry, 2 mead, 2 claret, 3 port, 9 champagne."
Pity I could not attend that performance.
25.11.2025 16:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The great news of the day is that the New York Public Library holds W. M. Thackeray's very own Punch's Pocket Book for 1856, with ms. annotations about 'the fat of the land, claret in plenty & smoking too much.'
What's not to like? Made an appointment to consult the resource next week.
20.11.2025 15:43 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
OMG, who was killed on that book?
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Want to have your eyesight tested gratis?
Read Punch's Pocket Book for 1856! 🔍 👓
19.11.2025 14:33 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
That section is bound to expand in the coming years, thanks to our new resources :)
16.11.2025 15:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Punch's Pocket Book Archive project as seen through Voyant Tools.
16.11.2025 10:55 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
One of the treasures of the museum's storage room was a box full of Linley Sambourne's own Punch's Pocket Books, several of which are annotated.
15.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sounds really fascinating!
15.09.2025 17:42 — 👍 2 🔁 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 — 👍 4 🔁 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 — 👍 17 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 4
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
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
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
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
Archives, DH, Museums, African American studies, C19 and early C20.
all opinions my own, not my employer's
www.dorothy-berry.com
Bookseller of uncommon 18-19th c. British literature, street literature, and Gothic Revival. Dirtbag medievalist. Wears Crocs with tweed. It’s all sarcasm. Never legal advice. Life coach for bad ideas. Member ABAA/ILAB/PBFA.
Compte officiel de la Société d'Études Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (SEAA 17-18)
Site web officiel | http://1718.fr
#anglophoneworld #literature #history #c17th #c18th
James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Assoc Prof of English Lit and Deputy Head of Humanities and Social Sciences at Uni of Greenwich. All views my own
PhD student, Exeter University, researching the role of Mr Punch in the development of C19 English national identity.
Du 3 au 5 juin 2026, rendez-vous à POITIERS pour le 65e congrès annuel de la SAES. Les enseignants et chercheurs en études anglophones du supérieur s'y retrouveront autour d'un thème central : l'ÉMANCIPATION.
Cartref Archifau a Chasgliadau Arbennig Prifysgol Bangor
Home of Bangor University's Archives and Special Collections
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AHRC PhD student at Newcastle University | Late-Victorian print culture, the environmental humanities, periodical studies, aestheticism/decadence, Celtic studies, & the history of science | she/her
Putting class back on the agenda.
Midlands4Cities-funded PhD student at the University of Leicester. Studying Victorian periodicals (mainly Punch), and digital humanities.
He/Him
Posting random bits & bobs here to help keep alive the memory of Leeds Other Paper (1974-1994), possibly the greatest little newspaper in the world. This account is maintained, after a fashion, by @writerlytone.bsky.social
Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Artist | The Courtauld Research Forum | Contemporary Art, Feminism, Spiritualism, Occultism & Magick. All my own views.
Birmingham/London
art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Professeur-documentaliste dans un collège de l'Académie de Bordeaux (33) #profdoc #EMI Coordinatrice #E3D #EDD
The History of Parliament's House of Commons 1832-1945 project, currently researching MPs, elections and parliamentary history between 1832 and 1868. Find more details on our website: https://victoriancommons.wordpress.com/
Postdoctoral researcher - author of 'The Rise of Office Literature' (Bloomsbury, 2025) - co-host of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social
Il faut, comme disait Balzac, offrir une surface commerciale.
Ran way from the law to join the music hall. Now often to be found running around with a clipboard organising events & the archive for the British Music Hall Society. Would rather be researching & writing…
My blog: https://musichallalice.wordpress.com
