Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (GB) |
| ISBN-13 | 9781474424882 |
| Open Library | OL21655301W |
| Total publications | 2 |
| Coverage period | 2020 - 2020 |
| Language | EN |
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 history and communication. Designed to provide readers with a clear understanding of the current state of research in the field, in addition to an extensive introduction, it includes fifty newly commissioned chapters and case studies exploring a full range of press activity and press genres during this intense period of change. Along with keystone chapters on the economics of the press and periodicals, production processes, readership and distribution networks, and legal frameworks under which the press operated, the book examines a wide range of areas from religious, literary, political and medical press genres to analyses of overseas and émigré press and emerging developments in children’s and women’s press.
Newspapers and the Law in the Nineteenth Century
This chapter provides an account of the development of laws relating to the press, considers the ways in which the industry promoted and responded to these developments, and reflects on their significance for wider understandings of law in society and the cultural, social and political role of newspaper and periodical publishing.It outlines the traditional view that the press became free from state control and considers the paradox that, at the s…
William Saunders and the Industrial Supply of News in the Late Nineteenth Century
Quarry owner William Saunders (1823-95) applied industrial methods to the supply of news as a commodity, experimenting with centralised and networked solutions to the problem of news distribution. He entered the newspaper industry in Plymouth, launching the Western Morning News in 1860, and in 1863 he and his brother-in-law Edward Spender set up one of the first UK news agencies, the Central Press, in London, supplying news and other editorial ma…
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Newspapers and the Law in the Nineteenth Century
This chapter provides an account of the development of laws relating to the press, considers the ways in which the industry promoted and responded to these developments, and reflects on their significance for wider understandings of law in society and the cultural, social and political role of newspaper and periodical publishing.It outlines the traditional view that the press became free from state control and considers the paradox that, at the s…
William Saunders and the Industrial Supply of News in the Late Nineteenth Century
Quarry owner William Saunders (1823-95) applied industrial methods to the supply of news as a commodity, experimenting with centralised and networked solutions to the problem of news distribution. He entered the newspaper industry in Plymouth, launching the Western Morning News in 1860, and in 1863 he and his brother-in-law Edward Spender set up one of the first UK news agencies, the Central Press, in London, supplying news and other editorial ma…