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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 26/08/2026

In keeping with the nostalgic turn we've taken this week, the full recordings of our #RSVP2026 Dublin keynotes are now available to stream on our YouTube channel! 🧵 below features direct links to both talks.

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Great too that the 2nd volume is out! Huge congratulations!

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 18/08/2026

Our Fall 2026 #RSVPDigiEvent line-up is officially here! 🍂 Check out the graphic below for topics and dates. More info will be forthcoming as each individual event approaches, but you can reserve your spot now by registering here: rs4vp.org/fall-digital...

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If you work on the 19th-c press and are looking at bills for travel, repro fees, etc., applying for a Curran Fellowship should be a no-brainer. Not a lot of hoops to jump through, and the folks making the decisions are researchers just like you. These are open to anybody, of any age, anywhere. #C19

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Our 18th Annual Conference is now over, and some of you may be staving off the post-VPFA conference depression. Not to worry, because we have JUST the cure: Volume 8, issue 1 of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal 🤩💫 Read it online here: victorianpopularfiction.org/publications...

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Table of Contents ArticlesJulia Kuehn and Diane Eveline van den Brink. The Good, the Bad, and the Popular: The Question of a Popular Canon and Other Methodological ContemplationsLinda K. Hughes. Cr…

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Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Thank you to @vpfa.bsky.social for inviting me to give my 1st (pedagogy focused) keynote where I playful thought about What the Victorians Taught Me About Teaching? I focused on creative production, emotion, sociability&wellbeing. I shared some of my students creative work too. #vpfapublics

A lecture theatre environment. Looking onto a PowerPoint screen with a slide that reads What the Victorians Taught Me About Teaching?: Creative Pedagogy in the Classroom. In the front three desks with creative work on them.

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A new regular feature on the VPFA blog: 'On This Day in the Pages of the Victorians'. Emma Butler-Way considers dates in fiction, and periodicals. An entry from everyone's favourite heroine, Marian Halcombe might feature in this post 👀

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I have to say that this one ismy favourite. Wait for the earworm at the 3 minute mark. youtu.be/tgQWN9PXdEQ?...

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Characters from Ouida 6 Interlude. At Ouida's Grave, Bagni di Lucca

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

What do you think? Is what I'm trying to do in these new outputs understandable, accessible -- critical, academic? youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

For that is what I've done with this latest set of outputs, combining my earlier experience writing music for the theatre (which I did semi-professionally in my 20s) with my more recent research in the history of popular culture.

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Is it a pivot when on #retirement you return to a practice of 40 years previously and combine it with the last 30?

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

What do we do when we career pivot? That's an increasingly commin phenomenon for academics these days.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 21/05/2026

Tell publishers to keep the news in the Wayback Machine: www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

And I do think I am that periodicals person too!

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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Please encourage any early career & NTT scholars doing fantastic work on Victorian poetries to submit to @victorianpoetry.bsky.social ‘s 2026 Early Career Prize — more info in the thread (have not had enough coffee, text of the call is embedded in a reply to the post linked below)!

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Reminder - just 5 days left to submit a paper proposal for "Belonging to the Victorians? Community, Collections, and Care", a 1-day conference on 4 September 2026 to be held at Wilton's Music Hall. Details in attached image. 🌟

Call for Papers for conference "Belonging to the Victorians? Community, Collections and Care" on 4 September 2026 - deadline 22 May 2026.

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Victorian Poetry @victorianpoetry.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Victorian Poetry invites submissions for its 2026 Early Career Prize. Please share far and wide! More info in the image / alt-text. Submissions due 3 August 2026.

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Back then I was too timid and invested in academic conventions and included only 15 seconds of music. Here though is a 6 minute critical-creative piece on #Ouida and the gendering of art that combines quotation, music, paiting and sculpture in a YouTube video. youtu.be/VMGZPGSXPAw?...

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Characters from Ouida, for Voice and String Quartet. 2 Crispin and Hilarion

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I wondered about why we didnt include critical-creative work in our journals, and recall a member of the audience ridiculing the idea that disciplinary practices were not universal and self-evident. Well...

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Some time ago I called for reflection on our disciplinary practices and the risks of too automatic and conservative practices: youtu.be/cGxS6H8bflg?...

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The Shape of Water Andrew King Colby Acceptance Speech 2018

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Shocking news that the University of Hertfordshire is closing Humanities. Sign the petition here if you care about the place of ethics, creativity and critical reflection in #HigherEducation. c.org/5WwymVxR8G

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Very much looking forward to this!

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In a new VPFA Blog Post, Helena Esser interviews Roy Reads Anything (@edgerat.bsky.social) about his Neglected Victorian Bestsellers project. There's Marryat, Lytton, Corelli, Ouida, and more! Read the post here: victorianpopularfiction.org/neglected-vi... Roy's YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist...

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Neglected Victorian Bestsellers with Roy Reads Anything

Helena Esser interviews Roy Bayfield about the most VPFA book club ever On YouTube, Roy Reads Anything heads up a year-long read-along that will be right up the VPFA members’ alley: We’ve got Marry…

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In a time of fixed-term or zero-hour contracts and uncertainty in HE, come join us as we discuss alternative careers. We'll hear from 3 members working outside academia, and there will be Q&A after! This event is free for VPFA members, so don't forget to check that your membership is up to date.

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

When exactly is it out? Very much looking forward to it!

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Registration is OPEN for our 18th Annual Conference: "Victorians and Their Publics". 🌎Liverpool John Moores University 📅6-8th July, 2026 💸£20-135 (depending on in-person/ student status). To read the full conference programme and to register, head to: victorianpopularfiction.org/vpfa-annual-...

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I'm thinking along these lines because I'm wondering how long the critical #essay will last as a genre. After all it's quite new, and there is no reason why it should last for ever. There are other ways we - and students - can engage with the past,research and think critically. #AI #assessment #HE

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Been thinking about #critical #creativity/ #creative #criticism recently as alternatives to literary critical essays and decided to set extracts from #Ouida novels to music, and then music video. Here's the first. How successful is it at clarifying her argument here? youtu.be/JSDkZsMKjS4

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Characters from Ouida, for Voice and String Quartet. 1 Bebee and the Sun

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 03/03/2026

More exciting VPR news!

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 21/01/2026

Did you read or review a great new book on #19thC periodical studies? Was it published in the last year? If yes, nominate it for a Colby Book Prize! We're still accepting nominations through 31 January. [NB: For tax reasons, authors *cannot* self-nominate.] More info here:

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The Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize – RSVP

The Colby Book Prize was endowed in 2006 in memory of Robert Colby by his wife, Vineta Colby, distinguished scholars and long-time members of RSVP. In 2011, following Vineta’s death, the Board of…

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Romance, Revolution & Reform @rrrjournal.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

It's here! We are delighted to announce that Issue 8 of the RRR Journal, Play in the Long Nineteenth Century, is available to read now at the link below. We can't wait to hear your thoughts on these brilliant articles! www.rrrjournal.com/issue/8

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Issue 8: Play in the Long Nineteenth Century

Issue 8 of Romance, Revolution and Reform.

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Congratulations Martin! Great to read this!

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 23/12/2025

Happy Holidays from RSVP! Our gift 🎁 to you is the debut of a new interview series, starting with @patrickleary.bsky.social, who sat down with @c19thnewshound.bsky.social this past year to discuss "Getting Started with Periodicals Research." Stay tuned for more in 2026! rs4vp.org/introducing-...

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Introducing A New Interview Series – RSVP

We're launching a new series of interviews of senior RSVP members, who will discuss their advice for researching 19th-century periodicals.

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Gwent Archives @gwentarchives.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas from all of us here at Gwent Archives! One of our favourite items in our collection, is a set of Victorian Christmas cards. Turn your phones and screen to uncover a twist with this particular card!

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

The arrest of Greta Thunberg for peacefully opposing genocide and supporting those on hunger strike is wrongful and disturbing. This is yet another shocking example of the UK’s broad terrorism laws being used to target those exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly rights.

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

You were fabulous -- bravissima! Next task: getting that gondola for a champagne-laden trip down the Avon! (Image from theshakespeareblog.com/2013/04/mari...) Meanwhile, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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Submissions for the VPFA First Book Prize are now OPEN! Deadline is 31st December 2025. For full eligibility criteria and submission guidelines, go to: victorianpopularfiction.org/vpfa-book-pr...

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Excited to announce that the VPFA blog has launched! Thanks to Emma Butler-Way for her hard work in getting it ready for today, for more information check out the blog at the link below: victorianpopularfiction.org/the-vpfa-blog/

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The VPFA Blog

The VPFA Blog Welcome to the VPFA Blog! Here we will have ponderings, reflections, speculative readings, and more, for the reading pleasure of our fellow Victorianists. If you would like to submit …

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Anna @annaulrika75.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Don't miss my account of what it was like for a first-timer at this summer's #vpfaextremes conference. A very exciting read indeed ;-)

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Becca @beccalham.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I have written a Blog Post for @vpfa.bsky.social about my time at @chawtonhouse.bsky.social as a Visiting Fellow! To read about the value of organisations like Chawton House to scholarly associations like VPFA, and an amusing snippet from a woman's diary: victorianpopularfiction.org/in-which-i-s...

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In Which…I Spent a Month at Chawton House!

A reflection by Rebecca HamiltonI spent the entire month of August feeling as though I were a character in a Jane Austen’s novel, in the very place Jane Austen wrote all her major novels: Chawton. …

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A reminder to get your abstracts in for VPFA's next upcoming Study Day, organised by Anne-Marie Beller: 'Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day'. Email a.m.beller@lboro.ac.uk for any additional information.

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