ESPRit, the European Society for Periodical Research, is pleased to announce the shortlist and winners for this new prize for digital projects and/or print research on periodicals in Europe published 2020/2021. Congratulations to all concerned.

The prize will be awarded at the ESPRit conference in Budapest, 7-9 Sept. 2022 (www.espr-it.eu/news/events/152-esprit-conference-2022).


There were 14 applications for the prize from across Europe, in various languages and formats: print, digital, and hybrid.

The Shortlist (in alphabetical order):

> ‘Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920’ / WeChangEd  (www.wechanged.ugent.be) created by Marianne Van Remoortel and team, Gent University. Digital, print, oral

> The European Illustrated Press and the Emergence of a Transnational Visual Culture of the News 1842-1870, by Thomas Smits, University of Antwerp. Routledge. Print monograph

> Serial Forms. The Unfinished Project of Modernity 1815-1848 by Clare Pettitt, King’s College London. Oxford University Press. Print monograph

> The Women’s Movement 2020 Project, created by Jelena Milinkovic and Zarka Svircev, Institute for Literature and Art, Belgrade, Serbia (https://www.zenskipokret.org).  Digital, Print, oral. The website element of this project is accessible in English as well as Serbian.

The joint winners:

Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920’ / WeChangEd  (www.wechanged.ugent.be) created by Marianne Van Remoortel and team, University of Gent.

Serial Forms. The Unfinished Project of Modernity 1815-1848 by Clare Pettitt, King’s College London. Oxford University Press.