Bob Nicholson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4002180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bob Nicholson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bob |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicholson |
| SIGNATURE | NICHOLSON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0863-963X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Transatlantic Connections
This chapter reflects on the connections that existed between British and American periodicals during the nineteenth century and suggests future directions for research in this field.
The Old World and the New: Negotiating Past, Present, and Future in Anglo-American Humour, 1880-1900
The Digital Turn: Exploring the methodological possibilities of digital newspaper archives
Advances in digital technology have made the recent past seem like a foreign country. Media historians did things very differently in 2002. In the last decade, hundreds of historical newspapers and periodicals have been digitised and made available to researchers via online archives. Whilst the emergence of these resources has generated contrasting responses from historians, an increasing number of researchers are now embracing the new methodolog…
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
Leah Price, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2012, 350 pp, £19.95 (hardback), ISBN 9780691114170 The most useful book I own is a sociological study of race relations in 1970s Bristol. At leas
Counting Culture; or, How to Read Victorian Newspapers from a Distance
A brief discussion of the potential of newspaper 'culturomics' for nineteenth-century cultural historians
You Kick the Bucket; We Do the Rest!’: Jokes and the Culture of Reprinting in the Transatlantic Press1
In December 1893 the Conservative candidate for Flintshire addressed an audience at Mold Constitutional Club. After he had finished attacking Gladstone and the local Liberal incumbent, he ended his speech with a joke. He advised the Conservative party to adopt, with regard to the government, the sign of an American undertaker: ‘You kick the bucket; we do the rest’. How did a sign belonging to a Nevadan undertaker become the subject of a joke told…
Jonathan's Jokes: American humour in the late-Victorian press
During the final quarter of the nineteenth century, columns of American jokes became a regular feature of numerous British newspapers. The Newcastle Weekly Currant, for example, had a weekly column of ‘Yankee Snacks’; The North Wales Chronicle had ‘American Humour’; the Hampshire Telegraph its ‘Jonathan's Jokes’; and the Northern Weekly Gazette sported a ‘Stars and Stripes’ column. Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper introduced a regular column of ‘American…
VI Nineteenth‐Century British History
Making headlines: The American Revolution as seen through the British press
Troy Bickham, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press, 2009, xiii+303 pp., £35.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-87580-393-7 The recent digitisation of British newspapers and periodicals has catapulte
Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra B. Nicholson B. Nicholson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s3-VII, Issue 177, 20 May 1865, Page 395, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s3-VII.177.395a Published: 20 May 1965
The Digital Turn: Exploring the methodological possibilities of digital newspaper archives
Advances in digital technology have made the recent past seem like a foreign country. Media historians did things very differently in 2002. In the last decade, hundreds of historical newspapers and periodicals have been digitised and made available to researchers via online archives. Whilst the emergence of these resources has generated contrasting responses from historians, an increasing number of researchers are now embracing the new methodolog…
Counting Culture; or, How to Read Victorian Newspapers from a Distance
A brief discussion of the potential of newspaper 'culturomics' for nineteenth-century cultural historians
You Kick the Bucket; We Do the Rest!’: Jokes and the Culture of Reprinting in the Transatlantic Press1
In December 1893 the Conservative candidate for Flintshire addressed an audience at Mold Constitutional Club. After he had finished attacking Gladstone and the local Liberal incumbent, he ended his speech with a joke. He advised the Conservative party to adopt, with regard to the government, the sign of an American undertaker: ‘You kick the bucket; we do the rest’. How did a sign belonging to a Nevadan undertaker become the subject of a joke told…
Jonathan's Jokes: American humour in the late-Victorian press
During the final quarter of the nineteenth century, columns of American jokes became a regular feature of numerous British newspapers. The Newcastle Weekly Currant, for example, had a weekly column of ‘Yankee Snacks’; The North Wales Chronicle had ‘American Humour’; the Hampshire Telegraph its ‘Jonathan's Jokes’; and the Northern Weekly Gazette sported a ‘Stars and Stripes’ column. Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper introduced a regular column of ‘American…
Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra B. Nicholson B. Nicholson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s3-VII, Issue 177, 20 May 1865, Page 395, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s3-VII.177.395a Published: 20 May 1965
Making headlines: The American Revolution as seen through the British press
Troy Bickham, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press, 2009, xiii+303 pp., £35.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-87580-393-7 The recent digitisation of British newspapers and periodicals has catapulte
Jonathan's Jokes: American humour in the late-Victorian press
During the final quarter of the nineteenth century, columns of American jokes became a regular feature of numerous British newspapers. The Newcastle Weekly Currant, for example, had a weekly column of ‘Yankee Snacks’; The North Wales Chronicle had ‘American Humour’; the Hampshire Telegraph its ‘Jonathan's Jokes’; and the Northern Weekly Gazette sported a ‘Stars and Stripes’ column. Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper introduced a regular column of ‘American…
VI Nineteenth‐Century British History
Counting Culture; or, How to Read Victorian Newspapers from a Distance
A brief discussion of the potential of newspaper 'culturomics' for nineteenth-century cultural historians
You Kick the Bucket; We Do the Rest!’: Jokes and the Culture of Reprinting in the Transatlantic Press1
In December 1893 the Conservative candidate for Flintshire addressed an audience at Mold Constitutional Club. After he had finished attacking Gladstone and the local Liberal incumbent, he ended his speech with a joke. He advised the Conservative party to adopt, with regard to the government, the sign of an American undertaker: ‘You kick the bucket; we do the rest’. How did a sign belonging to a Nevadan undertaker become the subject of a joke told…
The Old World and the New: Negotiating Past, Present, and Future in Anglo-American Humour, 1880-1900
The Digital Turn: Exploring the methodological possibilities of digital newspaper archives
Advances in digital technology have made the recent past seem like a foreign country. Media historians did things very differently in 2002. In the last decade, hundreds of historical newspapers and periodicals have been digitised and made available to researchers via online archives. Whilst the emergence of these resources has generated contrasting responses from historians, an increasing number of researchers are now embracing the new methodolog…
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
Leah Price, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2012, 350 pp, £19.95 (hardback), ISBN 9780691114170 The most useful book I own is a sociological study of race relations in 1970s Bristol. At leas
Transatlantic Connections
This chapter reflects on the connections that existed between British and American periodicals during the nineteenth century and suggests future directions for research in this field.
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