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PPBkA Team at RSVP 2025

It’s almost time for the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) annual conference, held this year in Chicago from 10 to 12 July. The Punch Pocket Book Archive team will be presenting at both a Pre-Conference Digital Event (on 20...

Transnational Popular Print in the Long Nineteenth Century: Reading Across Borders, Genres and Histories

On Wednesday April 2nd, Manchester Metropolitan University hosted the engaging hybrid research seminar “Transnational Popular Print in the Long Nineteenth Century.” Drawing together scholars from across the university and beyond, the event explored the international networks, subversive aesthetics and marginalised voices...

Finding Beau Brummell in Caen

As discussed in the earlier post about the “We are Amused”: Victorian Humour in the Digital Age conference, Regency fashion influencer Beau Brummell is buried in Caen, France. However, we couldn’t find his gravestone at the time, so I promised...

Nineteenth-Century Amusements and Pocket Books

Graduate student field notes from “We are Amused”: Victorian Humour in the Digital Age I attended the “We Are Amused” conference on the 7th and 8th of November. This conference offered both unique perspectives and a refreshing dose of humour!...