Patrick Leary Field Development GrantDeadline: 15 March 2024 The Patrick Leary Field Development Grant is named for long-time RSVP supporter, Board member and former President, and created with funds from a generous bequest to RSVP by the late Eileen Curran, pioneering researcher and Emerita Professor of English at Colby College. The grant is intended to support one or a team of researchers in creating resources that will facilitate the work of other scholars in their studies of 19th-century British newspapers and periodicals. The amount of the award will be up to $27,500. Eligible projects must articulate how the proposed resource will enhance the ability of other scholars to conduct significant research in the history of nineteenth-century British newspapers and periodicals. Examples of eligible projects include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborative projects to produce print or digital publications
• Demonstration projects that make use of new technologies
• Research tools such as indices and bibliographies
• Digitization efforts
• Workshops or seminars that address research methods for the study of periodicals

 More information about the Leary Grant can be found here: https://rs4vp.org/awards/rsvp-field-development-grant/ Applications can be made here: https://rs4vp.smapply.io/prog/patrick_leary_field_development_grant/ Questions regarding this grant can be sent to communications@rs4vp.org