Call For Applications – 36-Month Postdoctoral Fellowship Punch’S Pocket Book Archive

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description Description of the Project: . Punch, or the London Charivari (1841-2002) is certainly one of Britain’s central cultural institutions. Launched in July 1841 in the satirical tradition of Figaro in London (1831-1834) and the Parisian Charivari (1832-1937), it quickly relinquished the unpolished humour of its predecessors to become a well-mannered observer of its times, whose political, scientific and cultural evolutions it went on to mock for 150 years. Among the cluster of Punch related products circulated by the magazine’s publishers, Bradbury & Evans, in the early 1840s was a little annual called Punch’s Pocket Book (1843-1881). Designed to appeal to an urban, mobile and affluent readership, it was a sextodecimo notebook bound in soft leathercombining serious information with amusement. Its first part offered up-to-date business information, a diary and memoranda section, while the second part, devoted to light reading and entertainment, contained a selection of stories, songs, ballads, and cartoons similar to those found in the weekly magazine itself. Its main selling point was a fold-out hand-coloured frontispiece drawn by Punch’ s senior cartoonists, whose work it efficiently showcased. Punch’s Pocket Book Archive is an international digital project the primary objective of which is to create a fully searchable archive from a complete run of Punch’s Pocket Books. It is based on