Registration for BAVS 2026 is now live! We look forward to seeing you in Liverpool in July: bavs.ac.uk/2026-confere...

Today Bethany and I leave Phase 1 of the @punchspocketbook.bsky.social project. Thanks to Sonja and Françoise, fingers crossed you secure funding for Phase 2 🤞 Do read Bethany's blog, it's fascinating!

Dr. Bethany Qualls@bethanyqualls.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Hi all, today marks the end of my time as a postdoc for the Punch's Pocket Book Archive project. I'm not 100% sure what's next, big picture, but in the meantime here's a post I wrote last month about #19thC Crystal Palace dinosaurs, ht @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social for info 🦖🦕 ppbka.hypotheses.org/2803

Read more about the fantastic work we've been doing with outreach as part of the Punch's Pocket Book Archive project! Beta address following soon . . .

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals@rs4vp.org · 9mo ago

Happy Friday! Some light reading to enliven your weekend: a retrospective on the "Pictorial Punch: Treasures from the Archive" study day by our friends @punchspocketbook.bsky.social in November. Several candid photos from the day included! Thanks for #SharingYourNews! rs4vp.org/pictorial-pu...

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! #BookHistory #PeriodicalStudies

BAVS@bavs-uk.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Check out the BAVS 2026 conference website: www.ljmu.ac.uk/bavs2026 CfP deadline extended until 12th December 2025!

📽️ 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

How to Get Published in Academic Journal

YouTube video by Research Society for Victorian Periodicals

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BAVS2026 has a shiny new website! www.ljmu.ac.uk/bavs2026! To celebrate, we are extending our CFP to December 12th. Do come and join us

British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) conference

The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History, with the Centre for Port and Maritime History, are delighted to welcome BAVS delegates to Liverpool in 2026.

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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

Are you a community group with a passion for heritage? Or a museum, library, gallery or archive with a bold idea for community-led research? The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)

📖 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

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…

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Does anyone in our orbit know?

Sarah Bull@sarahebull.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Hey, folks, I think I heard that Renton Nicholson's The Town was digitized recently, but I can't find where — is it publicly available? Thinking that @victorianlondon.bsky.social or @rs4vp.org may know!

Challenging AI to create a Punch Pocket Book. We still rely on keywords for tagging as the most effective method for training data sets. Julia Thomas Pictorial Punch Study Day @britishlibrary.bsky.social @punchspocketbook.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @l19cmanmet.bsky.social

Second keynote at our Pictorial Punch Study Day @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Julia Thomas, Cardiff, on A Digital Treasure Hunt @punchspocketbook.bsky.social

Fascinating discussion of the Almanacks and Pocket Books as depicted in the Silver Diary with @patrickleary.bsky.social for the Pictorial Punch Study Day @britishlibrary.bsky.social @punchspocketbook.bsky.social @rs4vp.org

Panel 2 on Decadence, Celebrity and Social Networks at Pictorial Punch @britishlibrary.bsky.social @punchspocketbook.bsky.social Bethany Dahlstrom, myself and Jane Harrison

First keynote at Pictorial Punch @britishlibrary.bsky.social from @patrickleary.bsky.social on The Education of Henry Silver @punchspocketbook.bsky.social

Panel 1 at Pictorial Punch on Illustrators, Engravers and the Sensational @britishlibrary.bsky.social @punchspocketbook.bsky.social @l19cmanmet.bsky.social With Emma Liggins, Anne Anderson and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra

And we are off. Pictorial Punch Study Day at @britishlibrary.bsky.social @punchspocketbook.bsky.social

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

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

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

Do come and join us in Liverpool next July, we look forward to welcoming you!

BAVS@bavs-uk.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The BAVS 2026 Annual Conference CfP is now live: victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c... We hope you can join us in Liverpool next year!

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.

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!

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

RSVP Conference 2025 – RSVP

Dates July 10-12, 2025

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The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now up on jobs.ac.uk - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r... Please spread the word!!!!

Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History at Lancaster University

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History on jobs.ac.uk!

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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...

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...

Beth Gaskell@bethgaskell.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thought I’d make my first post both positive and useful-so here’s a list of all of the free-to-view titles now available on the British Newspaper Archive: blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...

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

2025 Conference - Liverpool John Moores University — Britain and the World

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