7 July 2009: The editors of the Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism are keen to expand its coverage of the local and regional press and the Scottish press, for the online version (now part of ProQuest's C19: The Nineteenth Century Index site) and for any revised print edition. You can help by:

• Commenting on the list of suggestions posted on the DNCJ website.
• Sending further suggestions (with one-sentence rationales).
• Offering to write a short entry.

15 January 2009: The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century: Picture and Press has been published by Palgrave. This is a collection of essays largely drawn together from the 2004 RSVP Annual Conference held at the University of Gent. The book is edited by Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor and features contributions from a number of members.

8 December 2008: The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (DNCJ) has been launched. Edited by Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor, this reference work contains over 1000 pages of entries on people, publications, and principle aspects of the nineteenth-century press. It features contributions from many of our members and is sure to be an invaluable resource for periodical studies. DNCJ is published by Academia Press and the British Libaray, and will be incorporated within Proquest's C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. There is a website for DNCJ here and you can download the cover by clicking here (pdf 636kb).

16 November 2008: Andrew King is digitizing the Victorian Fiction Research Guides. These provide bibliographical finding aids for a range of nineteenth-century printed material, including periodicals such as the London Journal, Illustrated London News, the Graphic, and the Idler.

7 November 2008: Andrew Hobbs has organized a postgraduate conference, Place in Print, Print in Place: English local and regional newspapers 1800-1925, to be held at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK on 4 December, 9.30am-5.30pm. The day features a keynote paper, 'Reading 19th-century journalism ? some issues of historiography and research method', from Aled Jones. Other papers include Ria Snowdon (University of Newcastle on Tyne) 'Georgian women as provincial press proprietors: their legacy and impact', Alison Toplis (University of Wolverhampton), 'Analysing provincial newspapers as a source for non-elite clothes retailing in the first half of the nineteenth century', Andrew Hobbs (University of Central Lancashire), 'When the local press was a national press (1855-c.1900)', Mary Lester (Institute for Historical Research), 'Local newspapers and local identity formation in the London boroughs of West Ham and Hackney (c. 1885?1925)', Alex Jackson (Leeds Metropolitan University), ‘"The young man’s bible and sermon": The Edwardian sports special as a consumer product and as a historical source', Fred Milton (University of Newcastle on Tyne), 'The "Children's Corner": A survey of the development of children's columns in the provincial press 1873-1914'. The respondent is Annemarie McAllister (University of Central Lancashire).

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