11 October 2011: There will be a day conference, 'The News of the World in History', at King's College London on 24 February. Founded in 1843, The News of the World was one of the UK’s longest-running Sunday newspapers and this conference aims to take a historical view of the late paper, approaching it through the framework of media history. Proposals are due by the 15 November 2011. The full call for papers can be found here.

25 March 2011: The Victorians Institute have announce a call for papers for their forthcoming conference 'Charles Dickens: Past, Present, and Future', October 21-22, 2011, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, US. For further details, click here.

21 March 2011: The organizers of 'W.T. Stead: Centenary Conference of a Newspaper Revolutionary' ask for proposals for papers (500 words) by 20 May 2011. Further details available at the conference website here or download the cfp here (pdf 123 kb).

18 March 2011: There is a PhD studentship in the Victorian and Modern Periodical (c.1837-1939) available at De Montfort University, UK. Download the advertisement here (pdf 95kb).

25 February 2011:The editors of the DNCJ are keen to expand its coverage of the local and regional press, for the online edition and any revised print edition. For an updated list of entries requiring contributors, click here.

20 February 2011: Members are encouraged to submit proposals to the British Association for Victorian Studies Annual Conference at the University of Birmingham. The conference theme is 'Composition and Decomposition', well-suited to studies of print culture.

21 January 2011: Members of RSVP participated in the first meeting of the AHRC Research Network 'Exploring the Language of the Popular in American and British Newspapers, 1833-1988'. To download the program, click here.

16 December 2010: RSVP were well represented at the Annual Conference for the Association for Research into Popular Fictions. To see the program, click here.

Various digital resources such as:

• Gale Cengage's Illustrated London News
• Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse)
• Gale Cengage's 19th Century UK Periodicals
• British Library's British Newspapers, 1800-1900

• British literary magazines
• the Union List of Serials in Libraries of the United States and Canada;
• the Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies;
• Victorian Periodicals: A Guide to Research. Vol. 1 (1978) & Vol. 2 (1989);
• The Nineteenth-Century Press in Britain: A Bibliography of Modern Studies, 1901-1971;
• The Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press in Britain: A Bibliography of Modern Studies, 1972-1987;
• three supplements to Victorian Periodicals Review: Women and British Periodicals 1832-1867;
• many literary encyclopedia entries on Victorian publishers; and
• entries on publishers and editors for the New Dictionary of National Biography;