An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire in the long 19th century
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, familiarly known as RSVP, is an interdisciplinary and international association of researchers dedicated to the study of the nineteenth-century press from Britain and its colonies. Members approach periodicals as an object of study and examine their contents and contexts — news and reviews; history, advertisements, illustrations, and visuals; literature, poetry, and gags; circulation and circuits; correspondents and editors; and more — from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and approaches, including book history, media history, print culture, and digital humanities.
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Off Centre: A Preview of the Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine (2028)
A Roundtable Event on October 16 The study of magazines produced away from the metropolis might seem odd, peripheral, minor, second-rate. But the periodicals of the periphery provoke vital questions about cultural and political power — fundamentally, where is culture produced? This is the question our October Digital Event panelists […]
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