Only 4 days left to apply for our grants, for education activities (£300), publications (£500) and research (£500), deadline 31 October. For activities related to the history of Lancashire & Cheshire (inc Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Furness). www.hslc.org.uk/grants-prize...

Your La Vie Parisienne cover by birth month. Some silliness from the historical periodicals for your #Friday. #c19th

New research on an English regional magazine ...

Foul! A great read here ⬇️

Save the date! Organizing an online “People’s Papers” workshop on Sept 30th to hear from projects in Leeds (@rememberlop.bsky.social), Liverpool and Birmingham: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-... @wcmlibrary.bsky.social

New blog post with an update on the "People's Papers" archival research project up now on the @wcmlibrary.bsky.social website! wcml.org.uk/blog/a-peek-...

A Blast from the Stacks! Read the latest update from The People's Papers as Arielle Lawson, a PhD student participating in the University of Manchester's Humanities PGR Placement Scheme at the library, interviews Bob Dickinson, author of Imprinting the Sticks. wcml.org.uk/blog/a-blast...

What if your town’s culture vanished overnight? Libraries are capturing online pages that showcase community life, preserving the web we built Learn more in our blog ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/08/27/p...

Looking forward to this online event in September, thanks to @feministcity.bsky.social, @wcmlibrary.bsky.social among others. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-...

Interesting article by Anahita Ahluwalia about the decline of Urdu-language magazines in India, including some great covers. homegrown.co.in/homegrown-cr...

More from the European Society for Periodicals Research (ESPRit): On Monday 23 June, Céline Mansanti will give an online talk on 'La Vie Parisienne in the 1920s US: “New Puritanism”, Censorship and Self-Censorship' Free registration link here: www.espr-it.eu/esprit/event...

Join us tomorrow (Friday) for the 1st in a new series of online events for each new issue of the Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS). "Periodicals & Belonging" Fri 20 June 2025 15:00 CET (2pm UK) Free and open to all Here's the registration link: www.espr-it.eu/esprit/event...

Readers & literary scholars, do you know any novels where a #port / #harbour plays a central or at least important role? (any period, any language) #literature

Sounds interesting!

Join the latest online seminar from PGR/ECR L19C Interdisciplinary Research Group, organised by PGR/ECRs @manmetuni.bsky.social. Ana Orbegozo (Spanish Nat Uni for Long Distance Ed) ‘Victorian Women Reimagining God’ – Th 27/02 17.30 GMT Register for free: long19century.wordpress.com/seminars/202...

We are really looking forward to our Annual Lecture 'Periodical Famines: Irish Memories in Transatlantic News Media, 1845-1919' by the brilliant Dr Lindsay Janssen (Radboud University)! @nlireland.bsky.social 6:30pm-7:30pm 28 Feb 2025! Book your free tickets here www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

Thanks for all the chapter proposals. We are wading through them at the moment and will get back to you soon.

Looking forward to speaking at this conference in March and hearing all the other fantastic papers.

Proposal deadline is this week!

We're pleased to announce a deadline extension for the 'Modernism and Data' Special Issue! The new deadline is January 20th. See below for the CFP: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/m...

We have received some really good proposals so far. Keep them coming!

Deadline 15th January!

Deadline 15th January!

Reminder!

Reminder!

Call for Participants: Volunteer Readers for a Study of Serial Form in Victorian Novels (Deadline: 6/30/25) bit.ly/3VEqMkh

Call for Chapters deadline - 15th January 2025. Send us your proposals! #regional #magazine #place #periodical

CFP: The Uncanny in Language, Literature & Culture 22–23 Aug 2025 – University of Malta & online This multidisciplinary conference invites scholars to engage with the uncanny in its myriad forms, exploring how it shapes & is shaped by language, literature, & culture. uncanny.lcir.co.uk

Call for Chapters deadline - 15th January 2025. Send us your proposals! #regional #magazine #place #periodical

Thank you everyone who attended our online talk today. Thanks also to our speakers for their really interesting papers.

Some great talks online tomorrow, Wed 11 Dec, about regional magazines from around the world:  'Duo Yin and the placeness of deaf community in wartime Shanghai, 1938-1940' by Shu Wan, University at Buffalo www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/place-and-... @placeperiodical.bsky.social

Taking place this Wednesday! Sign up to attend.

This is taking place next Wednesday! Register to attend via link.

This is taking place next Wednesday! Register to attend via link.

Reminder!

Online talk on 11th December. Please sign up to attend.

Online talk on 11th December. Please sign up to attend.

Reminder!

#ExploreYourArchives #EYAfashion The best known Salvation Army #fashion is the uniforms worn by Salvationists. But in 1940 its newspaper published patterns for dresses, coats and skirts for 'young women [who] make their clothes.’ Read more in our blog: www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/int...

Great progress by @mrcwarwick.bsky.social in its three-year project to index the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers and predecessor unions. A dozen catalogues online and more to come. Project archivist @worsted.bsky.social deserves a medal! sslh.org.uk/2024/11/25/n...

SUITS! TROUSERS! - "All the newest wear-defying" work clothes from Holmes & Son, Derbyshire railwaymen's tailors, as advertised in the 1899 Railway Herald More trade union journals (including Victorian & Edwardian railway publications) online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... #EYAFashion

Now on the BARS Blog: CFP: 49th International Byron Conference Check out the details here! bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5701 And don't forget to share widely! Thank you!

📢The call for papers for our 2025 conference is now ✨LIVE✨ We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be at the @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social from 7-9 July 2025! Call is open until 17 January 2025🌟🗃️ Please share widely! socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...

Registration open for our online talks on 11th December. There are 3 great speakers taking about a range of magazines.

If you are an academic writing on any aspect or period of Scottish Literature, please consider submitting an article to the peer-reviewed journal SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW. Published twice a year by @scotlit.bsky.social, the journal is edited by me and the very excellent @rhonabrown.bsky.social

Registration open for our online talks on 11th December. There are 3 great speakers taking about a range of magazines.

Please share our Call for Chapters.

Please register to attend our second online event taking place on Wednesday 11th December 1-2.30pm GMT. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/place-and-...

Please register to attend our second online event taking place on Wednesday 11th December 1-2.30pm GMT. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/place-and-...

Here is our Call for Chapters! Deadline for proposals is 15th January 2025.