26 July 2010: Clare Horrocks announces a call for papers for 'Selling Culture?: Cultural Identities in the Victorian Periodical Press' to be held at Liverpool John Moores University on 20-21 November 2010. Proposals (250-300 words) to C.L.Horrocks @ ljmu.ac.uk by Friday 16 September 2010. The full cfp is here.

19 April 2010: There is a day conference at the British Library on the 20 July 2010 entitled 'Digitised History: newspapers and their impact on research into 18th and 19th century Britain'. Laurel Brake, Patrick Leary, Jim Mussell and Simon Potter are all speaking. Click here for further details.

31 March 2010: 'W.T. Stead: Centenary Conference of a Newspaper Revolutionary' will be held at the British Library on 16 and 17 April 2012. The organizers ask for preliminary expressions of interest by the end of JUly 2010. Click here for further details and the cfp.

25 November 2009: Brian Maidment has recently returned from a workshop in Heidelburg on Punch as a transcultural phenomenon. You can read his report on this workshop by clicking 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;