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Edwardian Postcard Project

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Description

The early British postcard is a fascinating multimodal communications technology. In the heyday of the postcard during the Edwardian age, (1901-1910) it offered an opportunity for rapid vernacular writing at very low cost that was not to be available again until the contemporary digital revolution. Up to six deliveries a day were being made in major cities and 6 billion cards were sent in the period. We have collected over 1,200 cards from the period to examine the creative responses of the population to this new technology. Apart from the light shed on writing practices of the Edwardians, our studies are revealing much about the travel patterns, social networks and concerns of the age. We are also investigating the mobilities of the postcard today, through collecting cards ourselves, interviewing and photographing at postcard fairs, and reviews of secondary sources. We are using Twitter to resend some of the Edwardian messages - follow eVIIpc.

This project received £2808.75 from the Friends' Programme, Lancaster University in 2010.

For more information, visit the project website.

Acronym	EVIIpc
Status	Active
Effective start/end date	1/09/09 → …
Links	http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/EVIIpc/

Gillen, Julia (Principal Investigator)

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The Edwardian Postcard
Project: Research

Activities

Digital Humanities Research Forum
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Edwardian Postcards to and from Lancaster - a communications revolution
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
The Edwardian Postcard Project
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
The Edwardian Postcard Project
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Postcards to and from Lancashire - a presentation by Julia Gillen and Cael Rooney.
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
The Edwardian Postcard Project: An illustrated talk about the people who wrote postcards during the Edwardian era, especially in Lancashire.
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
The Edwardian Postcard Project
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Edwardian Postcards to and from Lancashire
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
A revolutionary multimodal communications technology: The Edwardian Picture Postcard
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Overcoming obstacles of space and time in Literacy Studies: from writing on early twentieth century postcards to the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Invited plenary talk for the Graduate School of Education Annual Research Conference: The Edwardian Postcard: how studying a revolutionary social networking literacy practice of the early twentieth century can illuminate contemporary research
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Bridging space and time through words and pictures: revealing the extraordinary trajectories of early twentieth century postcards.
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Writing postcards in early twentieth century Britain: a revolutionary social networking phenomenon.
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Writing the picture postcard at the beginning of the twentieth century: Instagram, Snapchat or Tweets of an earlier age?
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Overcoming obstacles of space and time in Literacy Studies: from writing on early twentieth century postcards to the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement.
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
University of Stavanger
Activity: Business or School/HEI Engagement › Visiting an external academic institution
The Edwardian Postcard: breathing new life into early twentieth century social media
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Research outputs

Any mermaids? Tracing early postcard mobilities.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter
Purchasing pre-packed words: complaint and reproach in early British postcards
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter
Writing Edwardian postcards
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Literacy history: crossing the disciplinary boundaries - a conference report
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article
The Edwardian postcard revolution - a literacy studies perspective
Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review
Writing Edwardian postcards: a revolutionary social networking phenomenon
Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review
Taking a historical perspective on social networking: the Edwardian postcard
Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review
Writing Edwardian postcards – a multimodal communications revolution
Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review
Three diverse projects on multimodality – is it possible to bring CHAT together with the social semiotic approach?
Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review
The picture postcard at the beginning of the twentieth century: Instagram, Snapchat or selfies of an earlier age?
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter
“I should have wrote a letter tonight”: a literacy studies perspective on the Edwardian postcard
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Taking a literacy studies approach to the multimodality of Edwardian postcards
Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper
Antique Instagrams or Snapchats? Multimodal Composition of Early Twentieth Century British Postcards: Paper presented at “Aesthetes then and now: a bricolage of historical, artistic, and material-discursive meanings” Writing and Literacies Special Interest Group Roundtable at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting 8-12 April 2016, Washington DC.
Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review
With regards to Homing, from the Edwardian Postcard Project
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter
Literacy Practices and Skills in Early Twentieth Century UK: The Picture Postcard as Social Media: Paper presented in session “Documenting History of Education: Methods, Narratives, and Stories” Division F - History and Historiography, American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, April 11-14, 2024.
Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review
Tracing lives of three young Edwardian women through picture postcards
Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review