Applications are now open for Round 3 of our Microgrants! We’re funding innovative research in #19thC periodicals by providing seed grants for archival travel, digital access to subscriptions or repositories, or digital tools to support your research. Apply by 1 September here: buff.ly/7r9cM50

How has it already been a week since #RSVP2026? If you're feeling some serious conference withdrawal (as we are), why not revisit the experience by taking our conference survey? The survey should take only 5-7 min. and will stay open until Aug. 12. Scan the QR code below to access the survey!

Indeed you all are. And, gentle Bluesky readers, check out the news projected behind this team: a British Newspaper Archive discount for RSVP members that saves serious money on that subscription. Negotiated by the inexhaustible Mary. Even more reason for all C19 scholars to join @rs4vp.org!

Clare Clarke@clareclarke.bsky.social · last wk.

With the wonderful Mary and Priti ahead of the RSVP AGM. What a team! #RSVP2026

Such great news! 🥳

Françoise Baillet@fbaillet.bsky.social · last wk.

Punch's Pocket Book Archive has been selected for a substantial award from the @agencerecherche.bsky.social! This will allow us to create two jobs, and bring the project to completion in 2030. With thanks to @rs4vp.org, @l19cmanmet.bsky.social and all members of the project, past and present.

Some lovely pics from the #RSVP2026 @rs4vp.org Closing Reception 😍😍 📷 By Pete

What a great looking bunch of periodical scholars! Thank you for a memorable conference!! ♥️ Exec+ 📸 Pete Clarke (the best!)

Please do take 30 seconds to complete this sustainability survey if you haven’t already! This helps release funding for our lovely conference #RSVP2026 @rs4vp.org

A massive thank you for @rs4vp.org for the @patrickleary.bsky.social Field Development Grant to fund this work. (I owe a bloggy final report - coming soon!) The largest humanities grant from a prof org in the U.S. rt now🎉💙😵 rs4vp.org/awards/leary... 🤩 #rsvp2026 @rs4vp.org

Patrick Leary Resource Development Grant – RSVP

The Patrick Leary Resource 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 ...

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And that is a wrap on #RSVP2026 in Dublin! Sláinte! 🥂 Many many thanks to our host @tcddublin.bsky.social, organizers, keynote speakers, social media volunteers + attendees for an incredible conference! And ICYMI: get ready for #RSVP2027 in OTTAWA next year! 🇨🇦 Safe migrations home to all!

And #RSVP2027 will be hosted next year at…the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre of Carleton University in downtown Ottawa! 🇨🇦

Xiangtai Zeng kicks off the #RSVP2026 session on The Anglophone Press from Chile to China with his talk on the uses of Shakespearean literary prestige in the Transnational British Press in 19th c. China

My heart is warmed (literally) to be in a packed room for the panel on Masculinity and the Working Classes (mostly Chartism!) for the last session of @rs4vp.org #RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion!

@mrcblckbrn.bsky.social is an @rs4vp.org virgin & recent convert to #PeriodicalStudies🥳 She enjoys getting out of the parliamentary papers😎 Her talk goes into petition activism in the 40s in the *The Nelson Examiner & New Zealand Chronicle* (1842-74), the 1st newspaper in the South Island #RSVP2026

The cherry on the #RSVP2026 sundae is Flore Janssen, daringly going "sans" PowerPoint... Flore is delighted to get to return to radical English journalist and writer Margaret Harkness (1854–1923) and to her first years as a migrant writer, documented in ‘A Year of My Life’ (*New Review*, Oct 1891)

In my sabbatical haze, I forgot to widely publicize the availability of the Katherine D. Harris Collection of literary annuals on @archive.org w/complete & searchable table of contents, authors, engravers, literary genre, pg ## 😎 IT's ready!! archive.org/details/kath... #rsvp2026 @rs4vp.org

Katherine D. Harris Collection

About this Collection The Katherine D. Harris Collection consists of approximately 90 nineteenth-century British literary annuals. The most popular titles, including Forget Me Not, The ...

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Flore Janssen had a methodological problems: what search terms do you use? "migrant workers" is a contemporary term, while "foreign workers" becomes too broad... Trying a to find a case study of Irish workers, she found a lot about Irish lace work... #RSVP2026

Maria Gabriella Tigani Sava, a historian of emotions and independent scholar from Malta, is discussing the Three Graces of *The Nation*, published in Dublin from 1842 to its suppression in 1848. #RSVP2026

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@3volumenovel.bsky.social fiction from the penny press moved into the select circulating library. This is significant because the penny press was widely derided as "trash" and Victorians thought that respectable types never read it, but the differences are only light editing #RSVP2026 #PrintinMotion

Marie Léger-St-Jean@marielsj.bsky.social · 2w ago

Kicking off a panel they've organized is @3volumenovel.bsky.social—the man who needs no introduction He shows that narratives—far from being intrinsically designed for different sets of readers—could travelled from the penny weekly *Family Herald*➡️3-volume novels for circulating libraries #RSVP2026

#RSVP2026 Really happy to get the chance to see Sarah Bliss’s paper on detective fiction in Pearson’s magazine. Such fantastic and important work bringing in less known detective fiction from the margins.

And hands-up if you use the British Newspaper Archive and are delighted with news of our new discounted rate for @rs4vp.org members! #RSVP2026

And the generously funded RSVP prize and grant winners so far this year are announced to great cheer and applause! @rs4vp.org #RSVP2026

Jennifer Conary speaks about how as an expert reader, she realized after moving to an admin job that her reading skills had deteriorated. We assume that our students can deep read, but this is a complex skill that needs to be developed actively. #rsvp2026 #printinmotion

Jenny Conary warns us: her talk will be unconventional (great!), and perhaps depressing (😭) She is reflecting not just on students' inability to read —also in other disciplines, she learnt from her colleagues— but on her own brain rot, slogging through reading *Middlemarch* for a course. #RSVP2026

Sheila Gross continues with strategic presentism and presents her experimentation with assigning a #DigitalHumanities #DH project instead of a literary analysis paper. Another term I didn't know! Special issue in @victstudies.bsky.social in 2016: "V21 Forum on Strategic Presentism" #RSVP2026

@jessicaotoole.bsky.social asks what undisciplining can look like in practice. Had never heard the term! Here's a definition: “a liberating act of temporarily suspending disciplinary regimes and practices in order to develop creative research (questions, ideas, and approaches)” #RSVP2026

The @bostoncollege.bsky.social has digitized its holdings of *The Pilot* (27 January 1838 - 26 December 1857) #RSVP2026 newspapers.bc.edu/cgi-bin/bost...

🤯 completely packed panel for Saturday morning slot #RSVP2026 final day! Thanks to my wonderful co-panelists Jessica Valdez & Beth Gaskell w/Jim Mussell moderating

Brilliant panel on Sherlockian Migrations first thing on the last day of #RSVP2026, featuring @jnam.bsky.social of @litattention.bsky.social, Antonija Primorac & @christopherpittard.bsky.social (pictured) #MovementsAndMigrations #PrintInMotion @rs4vp.org

Announced at today's AGM: Huge congratulations to Stephen Donovan & Matthew Rubery, winners of the 2026 Colby Prize for Undercover: Victorian Investigative Journalism in Fact and Fiction! 🏆#RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion