Endnotes

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals 45^th Annual Conference at the University of Salford, Manchester (UK) July 12–13, 2013

We are pleased to invite paper proposals for the 2013 RSVP Conference. As always, proposals for papers that address any aspect of nineteenth-century British periodicals or newspapers will be considered. However, this year we particularly encourage proposals on the topic “Tradition and the New” in the nineteenth-century press. Possible topics might include:

• • Tradition, custom, or convention in journalism.

• • Histories, representations of antiquity, nostalgia.

• • Innovation, novelty, and fashion.

• • Modernity, Victorian futures.

• • Evolution, chronology, or temporality.

• • Continuity or disruption in periodical publishing and editing.

• • Old and new printing technologies and readerships.

• • News, new modes of communication, innovation in finance and business models.

• • New methods in research and teaching periodicals, the role of the archive.

Please e-mail two-page (maximum) proposals for individual presentations or panels of three to RSVP2013@rs4vp.org. Please also include a one-page curriculum vitae with relevant publications, teaching, and/or coursework. Merit-based travel grants will be made available to students; please indicate if you would like to be considered for one of these. Final papers should take fifteen minutes (twenty minutes maximum) to present.

The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2013.

For more information about the conference, visit the RSVP website: http://www.rs4vp.org/conference.html.

2013 VanArsdel Essay Prize

The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The prize was established in 1990 to honor Rosemary VanArsdel, a founding member of RSVP whose groundbreaking research continues to shape the field of nineteenth-century periodical studies. The deadline for next year’s award competition is May 1, 2013. For submission guidelines, see http://www.rs4vp.org/prizes.html.

Errata

Several errors appeared in the review of National Identity in Great Britain and British North America, 1915–1851: The Role of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals by Linda E. Connor and Mary Lu MacDonald, which appeared in the Summer 2012 issue of Victorian Periodicals Review. MacDonald’s middle name was spelled incorrectly in both the citation and the review; Connors’s academic affiliation is with Drew University in Madison, NJ; and the first Canadian Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, spelled his name without a capital d. The book review editor regrets these errors.