22 Apr 2008: Registration is now open for the RSVP 2008 Annual Conference at Roehampton University. Click here to find out how to register.

17 Mar 2008: The Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse) announces the launch of the edition on the 13 May 2008, with a symposium at the British Library to mark the event. Click here for further details.

19 Dec 2007: The deadline for proposals for the RSVP Annual Conference has been extended until the 15 January 2008. Click here to go to the conference website.

26 Nov 2007: The website for the RSVP 2008 Annual Conference at Roehampton University is launched.

29 Oct 2007: The call for papers for the 2008 Annual Conference is announced. Download the printable conference CFP in Rich Text format (6 Kb), and spread the word.

22 Sep 2007: The 2007-2008 slate of officers and committee members for RSVP has been posted.

25 Aug 2007: The RSVP Membership List has been updated.

31 Mar 2007:VOLUNTEERS WANTED for the RSVP Wellesley Index Poetry Project. Contact Michelle Robinson at M.Renee.Robinson @ tcu.edu.

1 Oct 2006: The RSVP Bibliography for 1999-2001 is now online; earlier editions are forthcoming.

19 Sep 2006: Link to the Periodical Studies listserv from Brown University, where scholars interested in periodicals (from the 17th to the 21st centuries) can talk with each other online.

15 Sep 2006: Help proofread free-access online versions of Victorian periodicals for the Project Gutenburg Distributed Proofreaders organization.

22 Jul 2006: Do we have your email address? Have a look in our Members section!

4 Feb 2006: The Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (NCSE) launches their new project website at http://www.ncse.kcl.ac.uk/. See our blurb about the project.

17 Mar 2008: RSVP members are invited to attend the launch of the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition at the British Library on 13 May 2008. The event will feature papers on nineteenth-century periodicals and digitization, a forum on the politics of digitization, and a keynote address by Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian newspaper. Speakers will include Isabel Armstrong (Birkbeck), Laurel Brake (Birkbeck), Mark Holland (Gale), Andrew King (Canterbury Christchurch), Patrick Leary (SHARP), Jim Mussell (Birkbeck and Birmingham), Suzanne Paylor (Birkbeck), Helen Rogers (Liverpool John Moores), Joanne Shattock (Leicester), Peter Shillingsburg (De Montford), Harold Short (King's College London), Mark Turner (King's College London), John Unsworth (Illinois), Peter White (ProQuest). If you would like to attend contact Jim Mussell.

20 Aug 2007: For the forthcoming Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism, RSVP members are invited to contribute entries between 60 and 300 words on journals, newspapers, authors, key words, editors, publishers, printers, or artists connected with periodical publishing. Please peruse the lists of journals, people, and key-word topics to be included in the DNCJ. Anyone interested in volunteering to write specific entries, please contact the editors, Laurel Brake (l.brake@bbk.ac.uk) or Marysa Demoor (marysa.demoor@ugent.be). Also, see the DNCJ web site at http://www.dncj.ugent.be for the latest information on the project.

31 Mar 2007: VOLUNTEERS WANTED for the RSVP Wellesley Index Poetry Project to address the regrettable absence of poetry in The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals. We are looking for volunteers to undertake the indexing of poetry for a given span of years from a periodical in the Index. Michelle Robinson will coordinate the volunteers and the indexing. We are hoping to complete the indexing over the next 2 years. The end product will be available online to aid the scholarly community. Please contact Michelle for further information and/or to volunteer at M.Renee.Robinson @ tcu.edu.

1 Oct 2006: Eileen Curran reminds our members that corrections and additions to the Dictionary of National Biography are always welcome. The DNB is in the process of expanding its entries, so start thinking about who should be included in its entries! On the ODNB site, use the "Comments" feature to send corrections and suggestions, or send corrections directly to Mark Curthoys via mark.curthoys @ oup.com (be sure to identify yourself as a member of RSVP).

19 Sep 2006: Teresa Mangum is asking our members to submit examples of your "teaching with Victorian periodicals" materials so the Society can create a repository of teaching documents. Share your methods and materials with Teresa at teresa-mangum@uiowa.edu.