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The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2: Expansion and Evolution, 1800-1900

David Finkelstein

Abstract

Winner of the 2021 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize, this is a thorough account of newspaper and periodical press history in Britain and Ireland from 1800 to 1900. It is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish journalism and communication history during a key period of change and development. It covers an important point of expansion in periodical and press history across the four nations of Great Britain (England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales), concentrating on cross-border and transnational comparisons and contrasts in nineteenth-century media ... More

Keywords: Newspapers, Periodical Press, Communication History, Journalism, Media History, Nineteenth Century, British journalism, Irish journalism

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2020 Print ISBN-13: 9781474424882
Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: January 2022 DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424882.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

David Finkelstein, editor
University of Plymouth

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Contributor Biographies

Introduction

David Finkelstein

I. Press and Periodical Economics

Chapter One The Economics of Press and Periodical Production

Howard Cox and Simon Mowatt

Case Study 1: Newspapers and Advertising

Peter Robinson

II. Production and Distribution

Chapter Two Production

Helen S. Williams

Case Study 2: John Cossar & Son and the Govan Press

Helen S. Williams

Chapter Three The Evolution of Image-Making Industries and the Mid- to Late Victorian Press

Rose Roberto

III. Readership and Distribution

Chapter Four Readership and Distribution

Paul Raphael Rooney

IV: Identities and Communities

Chapter Five Cultural Agents and Contexts: The Professionalisation of Journalism

Joanne Shattock

Case Study 3: New Journalism

Philip March

Case Study 4: Letters to the Editor

Allison Cavanagh

Case Study 5: The Reporter

Stephen Tate

Case Study 6: The Byline

Steve Harrison

V. Legal Frameworks

Chapter Six Newspapers and the Law in the Nineteenth Century1

Tom O’Malley

VI. Themed Chapters

Chapter Seven The English-Language press in Continental Europe

Diana Cooper-Richet

Chapter Eight Transnational Exchanges

M. H. Beals

Case Study 7: The Fight in Piccadilly: How False News Went Viral in 1895

Colette Colligan

Case Study 8: Transnational Exchange between British and Swedish Periodicals in the 1830s

Cecilia Wadsö Lecaros

Case Study 9: An Imperial Ideology of News: News Values and Reporting about Japan in Colonial India1

Amelia Bonea

Case Study 10: The Steamship Press: An International Conduit of Information and Imperial Masculinity

Paul Raphael Rooney

Case Study 11: The Russian Émigré Press

Helen S. Williams

Chapter Nine Literary and Review Journalism

Joanne Wilkes

Chapter Ten ‘One Language is Quite Sufficient for the Mass’: Metropolitan Journalism, the British State and the ‘Vernacular’ Periodical Press in Wales, 1840–1914

Aled Gruffydd Jones

Chapter Eleven The Scottish Gaelic Press

Sheila M. Kidd

Chapter Twelve The Irish-Language Press: ‘A Tender Plant at the Best of Times’?

Regina Uí Chollatáin

Chapter Thirteen The Nineteenth-Century Denominational Press

Joan Allen

Case Study 12: The Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette

Ian d’Alton

Chapter Fourteen Comics, Cartoons and the Illustrated Press

Elizabeth Tilley

Chapter Fifteen The Satirical Press

Michael de Nie

Chapter Sixteen The Medical Press and its Public

Sally Frampton

Chapter Seventeen Science and the Press

Alex Csiszar

Case Study 13: ‘Fellows that never knew each other’: Natural History Periodicals

Matthew Wale

Chapter Eighteen The Business Press

Melissa Score

Chapter Nineteen The Press and Radical Expression: Structure and Dissemination

Martin Conboy

Chapter Twenty The Political Press

James Thompson

Case Study 14: The Glasgow Herald

James Thompson

Case Study 15: Parnell, Edmund Dwyer Gray and the Press in Ireland

Felix M. Larkin

Case Study 16: The Nation

James Quinn

Chapter Twenty-One The Trade and Professional Press1

Andrew King

Case Study 17: The Book Trade Press

Rachel Calder

Case Study 18: The Armed Services Press

Margery Masterson

Chapter Twenty-Two The Leisure and Hobby Press

Christopher A. Kent

Case Study 19: Galleries without Walls: Art and the Mechanical Mass Culture of the Press

Michael Bromley and Karen Hasin-Bromley

Chapter Twenty-Three The Sporting Press

Joel H. Wiener

Case Study 20: Sport Reporting in the Times from 1800 to 1900

Jessie Wilkie

Chapter Twenty-Four The Children’s Press

Frederick S. Milton

Case Study 21: Children and the News

Siân Pooley

Chapter Twenty-Five The Women’s Press

Kathryn Ledbetter

Chapter Twenty-Six The Provincial, Local and Regional Press

Andrew J. H. Jackson

Case Study 22: The Provincial Nature of the London Letter

Andrew Hobbs

Case Study 23: William Saunders and the Industrial Supply of News in the Late Nineteenth Century

Andrew Hobbs

Case Study 24: The Irish Times: ‘The Protestant and Conservative daily newspaper’

Mark O’Brien

End Matter

Key Press and Periodical Events Timeline, 1800–1900

Bibliography

Index