A roundtable with Punch’s Pocket Book Archive team members - @DrHorrocks, @sonja_lawrenson, @Bethany_Qualls and myself - covering our recent discoveries, lessons learned, and future plans for this burgeoning online archive project.

An interactive workshop covering a brief history of pocketbooks and opportunity to create your own hand-bound pocketbook.

Keynote presentations by @BobNicholson: “Pickings From Punch: Reprinting Humour in the Transnational Press,” and @jimmussell: “Endings: Seriality, Sustainability, and Carrying on”.

The Punch’s Pocket Book Archive team warmly invites you to join us for our debut conference:."We are Amused' Victorian Humour in the Digital Age,".7-8 November 2024, Caen Normandie U., France, and on Zoom. Registration is free and open, here:.

RT @RS4VP: Don't forget to join us next Friday, Oct. 11, for our next #RSVPDigEv with @lesliehowsam, who will present a "Challenge to Perio….

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Another delightful discovery here at @HoughtonLib: one of the Punch's pocket books came with a volume containing original sketches by Leech, including a drawing of the 1853 opening page. Spot the differences!

The amazing finding of the day is that Harvard's @HoughtonLib holds no fewer than three collections of Punch's Pocket Book, plus many isolated volumes!

RT @RS4VP: New #RSVPDigEv coming Aug. 9! "'Class' Periodicals: Contents, Categories, Publics" is the 1st in a recurring series of panel-sty….

Absolutely delighted, and very grateful to @RSVP for this generous grant, which will support our digital project!.

The Punch’s Pocket Book Archive Project is an international collaboration between myself at @Universite_Caen, Clare Horrocks @LJMU and Sonja Lawrenson at @MMU (3/3). Many thanks to @RS4VP from us all!.

The Patrick Leary Field Development Grant will enable us to proceed with the digitisation of a collection of 40 pocketbooks, and create an open-access archive. (2/3).

Absolutely delighted and greatly honoured to announce that the Punch’s Pocket Book Archive Project Team has been awarded a generous grant from @RSVP! (1/3)

First cèilidh of my life. The Flying Scotsman works better if you are a little drunk. I looooooved it. @RS4VP in @StirUni

Quite literally trying to make an impression at the #RSVP2024 conference at @StirUni !.

RT @icrawford7: #RSVP2024 Richard Menke, Teja Varma Pusapati, and Francoise Baillet take turns at pulling sheets at the Pathfoot Press http….

Wonderful @PathfootPress printing workshop this afternoon, with the knowledgeable @ScotsAntiquary and his interns. We even got to use the beautiful Columbian press, and this is the result! #RSVP2024

RT @la_sagef: We’re now listening to Tony Dex ODUNGA (Université de Caen) talking us through “L'émigration des femmes dans l'Angleterre vic….

RT @imageplotter: @Number10cat @aaronchown Do your work, Chief Mouser.

Three of our amazing doctoral students ready to attend the @SAES_FR annual conference in Nancy. Good vibes going on here.