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: 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.

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). Professor Waters will give the Colby lecture at this year's Annual Conference in Minneapolis.

7 March 2009: RSVP now has a Facebook Group where RSVP members can share news, thoughts, and photos. Here's how to become an RSVP member.

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.

3 December 2008: RSVP are delighted to 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.

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.

31 Mar 2007: VOLUNTEERS WANTED for the RSVP Wellesley Index Poetry Project to address the regrettable absence of poetry in The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals. We are looking for volunteers to undertake the indexing of poetry for a given span of years from a periodical in the Index. Michelle Robinson will coordinate the volunteers and the indexing. We are hoping to complete the indexing over the next 2 years. The end product will be available online to aid the scholarly community. Please contact Michelle for further information and/or to volunteer at M.Renee.Robinson @ tcu.edu.

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.

3 Sep 2006: Our pilot project of making the RSVP Bibliography available online continues. Now you can search the entire bibliography from 1999-2005, read the editors' introductions, scan the journal lists, and search the subject indexes. The Society hopes that making the bibliography available in a searchable format will help scholars from all disciplines with their research. More years of the bibliography are forthcoming online.