This page records all the old announcements from the RSVP homepage and Members page from 2006 to the present. For current news and announcements, click here.

• 15 October 2009: RSVP have announced the call for papers for the 2010 Annual Conference to be held at Yale University, 10-11 September 2010. Click here to download the cfp as a pdf (459 kb).
• 1 September 2009: The RSVP Annual Conference held at the University of St Thomas in Minneapolis was a great success. Congratulations to the organizers, Alexis Easley and her team, who did a fantastic job.
• 20 August 2009: The deadline for the Gale Fellowship is fast approaching. This award is made to support doctoral work that makes use of digital resources of nineteenth-century serials. Further details available here and on the Awards page.
• 30 July 2009: RSVP would like to congratulate Anne DeWitt, the winner of this year's VanArsdel Prize for the best graduate essay. Her essay is entitled 'Moral Uses, Narrative Effects: Natural History in Victorian Periodicals and Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters.'
• 9 July 2009 The RSVP Annual Conference at the University of St Thomas is approaching. Full details, including the program and abstracts of papers, are available on the conference website here.
• 6 May 2009: RSVP are excited to announce a new Doctoral Fellowship for 2009. The Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship in 19th-Century Media will support doctoral research that makes substantial use of full-text digitized collections of 19th-century British magazines and newspapers. For further details see the Awards page.
• 6 May 2009: The editors of the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism, Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor, have offered a discount of 15 pounds from the cover price for RSVP members. This discount is available until 30 June 2009. Contact the webmaster for further details.
• 6 May 2009: RSVP have announced the commencement of the competition for the second annual Curran Fellowships. The deadline is 1 October 2009: see the Awards page for details how to apply.
• 6 May 2009: RSVP are pleased to announce that Ashgate have generously provided three bursaries for Graduate students to attend our Annual Conference. The Ashgate / RSVP Travel Awards will be available from 2010.
• 8 April 2009: Gavin Budge announces a Call for Papers for a conference, 'Romanticism and the Periodical in the Long Eighteenth Century', 27th-29th July 2009, University of Hertfordshire, St Alban's UK.
• 24 March 2009: RSVP are delighted to announce that the winner of the Colby Prize is Catherine Waters for her book Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words (Ashgate 2008).
• 24 February 2009: Back issues of the Victorian Periodicals Review are now available on JSTOR! The fully searchable text of VPR and of its predecessor, the VPN, that is accessible through JSTOR begins in 1978 and runs through 2003.
• 7 April 2009: Andrew Hobbs asks for help expanding the coverage of the local and regional press in the online version of the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism.
• 17 March 2009: Graduate students are invited to submit essays for the 2009 VanArsdel Prize for the best graduate student essay on, about, or extensively using Victorian periodicals. The deadline for submissions is the 1 April. Full details can be found on the Awards page.
• 19 January 2009: The 1 February deadline for proposals for the forthcoming RSVP Annual Conference is rapidly approaching. See the RSVP 2009 Annual Conference website for further details or download the cfp here (pdf 74kb).
• 15 January 2009: A collection of essays, The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century: Picture and Press has been published by Palgrave. This collection of essays, edited by Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor, features papers from our 2004 Annual Conference in Gent.
• 8 December 2008: The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism has been launched.
• 3 December 2008: RSVP announce the winners of the first Curran Fellowships: Sydney J. Shep (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) and Liz Miller (University of California at Davis, USA). The Curran Fellowship is a new annual award that allows scholars from any discipline to make use of archival and primary print sources. Further details of the Fellowship and how to apply can be found on the Awards page.
• 16 November 2008: Andrew King is digitizing the Victorian Fiction Research Guides.
• 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.
• 2 September 2009: RSVP invite nominations for the Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize. Full details are available on the Awards page.
• 12 August 2008: RSVP have announced the call for papers for the 2009 Annual Conference. Download the call for papers here (pdf 74kb) or go to the RSVP 2009 Annual Conference website for further details.
• 6 August 2008: RSVP are pleased to announce the launch of the Curran Fellowship. These grants are intended to help scholars, students and researchers make use of primary print and archival sources. For further information, click here (pdf 23k).
• 27 August 2008: Applications are invited for the Curran Fellowship. Further details can be downloaded here (pdf 23k). Send applications or any queries to curranfellowship@rs4vp.org. The deadline is 1 October 2008.
• 6 July 2008: The RSVP Annual Conference 2008 was held at the University of Roehampton. The organizers did a fantastic job and a great time was had by all. The next RSVP Annual Conference 2009 will be held at the Minneapolis Campus of the University of St. Thomas. Click here for the conference website.
• 12 June 2008: The website for the RSVP 2009 Annual Conference, to be held at the University of St. Thomas 21-22 August 2009, has been launched. You can also download the conference flyer by clicking here.
• 28 May 2008: The programme for the RSVP 2008 Annual Conference at Roehampton University has been announced.
• 13 May 2008: The Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse) has been launched.
• 22 Apr 2008: Registration is now open for the RSVP 2008 Annual Conference at Roehampton University.
• 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.
• Spring 2008: VPR publishes a Fortieth Anniversary Issue guest edited by Rosemary T. VanArsdel. Contributors include Rosemary VanArsdel, Michael Wolff, Dorothy Deering, Hans de Groot, Merril Distad, Richard Fulton, William H. Scheuerle, J. Don Vann, Larry K. Uffelman, and Kathryn Ledbetter. There are also articles by Jennifer M. Regan and Patrick Scott.
• 19 Dec 2007: The deadline for proposals for the RSVP Annual Conference has been extended until the 15 January 2008.
• Winter 2007: This issue of VPR contains the '2007 Annual Directory of Articles in Victorian Periodicals Review.'
• 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.
• 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.
• 1 July 2007: Jim Mussell has published Science, Time and Space in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Movable Types. This book explores the relationship between the periodical press and time and space, and discusses periodicals such as the Strand Magazine, Chemical News, Knowledge, Journal of the Chemical Society, English Mechanic and many others. For further details see the Ashgate website.
• 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.
• 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! On the ODNB site, use the "Comments" feature to send corrections and suggestions.
• 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.
• 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.
• 15 Sep 2006: Help proofread free-access online versions of Victorian periodicals for the Project Gutenburg Distributed Proofreaders organization.
• 3 Sep 2006: Our pilot project of making the RSVP Bibliography available online continues. You can search the entire bibliography from 1999-2005, read the editors' introductions, scan the journal lists, and search the subject indexes.
• 22 Jul 2006: Do we have your email address? Have a look in our Members section!
• Spring 2006: VPR will adopt the Chicago style manual beginning in 2006. The editors ask that contributions please now follow the Chicago format.
• 4 Feb 2006: The Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (NCSE) launches their new project website.
• 24 Sep 2005: Victorian Periodicals Review is now available online as part of the Project Muse Premium Collection; talk to your librarian about access.
• Summer 2005: Andrea Broomfield has edited a special issue of VPR on Interdisciplinary Work and Periodical Connections in honor of Sally H. Mitchell. Contributors include Maria Frawley, Linda K. Hughes, Jennifer Phegley, Solveig C. Robinson, Talia Schaffer, and Clare Cotugno. Head to the VPR section for the table of contents, as well as contributor blurbs.
• 30 November 2004: Encounters in the Victorian Press: Editors, Authors, Readers has been published. This book, edited by Laurel Brake and Julie F. Codell, contains essays selected, updated and expanded from papers presented at the 2000 RSVP London conference. For further details see the Palgrave website.