Projects and networks
The following is a growing selection of research projects, networks and websites related to (primarily European) periodical research. If you have any suggestions, please send an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Research networks, societies and centres
- History in Popular Cultures of Knowledge, University of Freiburg (English site)
- Institut Deutsche Presseforschung (Institute for the Study of the Historical German Press; in German)
- Middlebrow Network, focused on research on the term "middlebrow" (includes a mailing list)
Research projects and databases
- Chinese Women's Magazines from the Late Qing and Early Republican Periods, database providing access to Chinese women's magazines from the first half of the 20th century
- Magazines, Travel and Middlebrow Literature in Canada 1925 - 1960; research project on Canadia, but with a focus on the representation of European cities
- Modernist Journals Project, aims to provide digital editions of significant Modernist magazines
- History in German Illustrated Magazines of the 19th Century (ca. 1850-1914/18), University of Freiburg
- Project on Victorian Periodicals "Histories for the Many: Historical Lifeworlds in Victorian Family, Women’s and Children’s Periodicals", University of Freiburg
- The Curran Index (Identifying the men and women whose stories, poems, and articles appeared anonymously in nineteenth-century British periodicals.)
- NoRMMA: Network of Research: Movies, Magazines, Audiences. (A research network situated at the University of Kent but open to all scholars interested in fan and film magazines and their position as a meeting ground between industry and audiences.)
- WeChangEd: Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920, Ghent University
- SpaTrEM: Spaces of Translation: European Magazine Culture 1945 – 1965, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Nottingham Trent University
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KYPSELI: database on Ottoman Women's Press (19th century - 1923), University of Crete.
Other websites of interest
- Book History and Print Culture Network, blog on Interdisciplinary Perspectives from German-Area Scholars
- Europeana, site dedicated to the digitilisation of European cultural heritage
- At the Free University Berlin several researchers are concerned with periodical research; see the Institute for Media and Communication Studies and the Institute for Arts and Media Management
- Magazine Modernisms, blog dedicated to Modern Periodical Research
- Mapping the Magazine 3, papers presented at the Mapping the Magazine 3 Conference, held at Cardiff University 7 and 8 July 2011
- Nineteenth Century Index, source for nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives
- Research cluster Asia and Europe in a Global Context at the University of Heidelberg, includes research on public spheres and periodicals
- Weimar Studies Network, resources on the history, culture and society of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933); includes links to German periodicals online
Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs)
ESPRit actively collaborates with institutions and research groups worldwide to advance the study of periodicals. These agreements strengthen academic exchange and cooperation. Since 2020, we have formalized partnerships with the following institutions and networks:
- Libera università di lingue e comunicazione IULM (2020)
- TransfoPress – Transnational network for the study of foreign language press from the 18th–20th century (2022)
- PéLiAs – Périodiques, Littérature, Arts et Sciences (2022)
- G.R.I.R.T. – Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire sur les Revues de Théâtre (2023)
- RSVP – The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (2023)
- Институт за књижевност и уметност – Belgrade Institute for Arts and Literature (2022, renewed in 2024)
- Università degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo" (2024)