List of Illustrations

List of Illustrations

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2025

Edited by

Adrian Bingham and

Martin Conboy: Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
Adrian Bingham: Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
Nicholas Brownlees: Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

Book contents

Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Contributor Biographies
Introduction
Chapter One Business of the Press
Chapter Two Production and Distribution
Chapter Three Legal Contexts: Licensing, Censorship and Censure
Chapter Four Readers and Readerships
Chapter Five From News Writers to Journalists: An Emerging Profession?
Chapter Six From Manuscript to Print: The Multimedia News System
Chapter Seven Newsbook to Newspaper: Changing Format, Layout and Illustration in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Periodical News
Chapter Eight The Evolving Language of the Press
Chapter Nine News, Debate and the Public Sphere
Chapter Ten Irish Periodical News
Chapter Eleven The Scottish Press
Chapter Twelve The Market for the News in Scotland
Chapter Thirteen Scottish Press: News Transmission and Networks between Scotland and America in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter Fourteen Wales and the News
Chapter Fifteen European Exchanges, Networks and Contexts
Chapter Sixteen Translation and the Press
Chapter Seventeen Women and the Eighteenth-century Print Trade
Chapter Eighteen The Medical Press
Chapter Nineteen Commenting and Reflecting on the News
Chapter Twenty Newspapers and War
Chapter Twenty-one Crime and Trial Reporting
Chapter Twenty-two Literary and Review Journalism
Chapter Twenty-three Press and Politics in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter Twenty-four Religion and the Seventeenth-century Press
Chapter Twenty-five Runaway Announcements and Narratives of the Enslaved
Chapter Twenty-six The Press in Literature and Drama
Chapter Twenty-seven Informational Abundance and Material Absence in the Digitised Early Modern Press: The Case for Contextual Digitisation
Concluding Comments
Key Press and Periodical Events Timeline, 1605–1800
Bibliography
Index
Plates
The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Contributor Biographies
Introduction
I Press and Periodical Economics
II Production and Distribution
III Readership and Distribution
IV Identities and Communities
V Legal Frameworks
VI Themed Chapters
Key Press and Periodical Events Timeline, 1800–1900
Bibliography
Index
The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 3
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Contributor Biographies
Preface
Plates
Introduction: Milestones in the History of the Twentieth-Century Press
Chapter One Economics: Ownership and Competition
Chapter Two News Production
Chapter Three Readership and Readers
Chapter Four Regulation
Chapter Five Identities and Communities: Negotiating Working-Class Identity in the Regional Press
Chapter Six Transatlantic Exchanges
Chapter Seven Literary and Review Journalism
Chapter Eight The Financial Press
Chapter Nine Digital News, Digitised News
Chapter Ten Professional Identity
Chapter Eleven News Agencies: From Telegrams to Tweets
Chapter Twelve Photography and Illustration
Chapter Thirteen The Sporting Press
Chapter Fourteen Women’s Magazines: The Pursuit of Pleasure and Politics
Chapter Fifteen The Welsh Press
Chapter Sixteen Shared Media Histories in the British Isles: Irish-Language Media, 1900–2018
Chapter Seventeen The Gaelic Press
Chapter Eighteen Continuity and Change in the Belfast Press, 1900–1994
Chapter Nineteen The Black British and Irish Press
Chapter Twenty Cartoons
Chapter Twenty-One Britain’s Imperial Press System
Chapter Twenty-Two The Entertainment Press
Chapter Twenty-Three Feminism and the Feminist Press
Chapter Twenty-Four The LGBTQ Press in Twentieth-Century Britain and Ireland
Chapter Twenty-Five The Press and the Labour Movement
Chapter Twenty-Six The Tabloid Press: Tales of Controversy, Community and Public Life
Chapter Twenty-Seven The Sunday Press
Chapter Twenty-Eight Satirical Journalism
Chapter Twenty-Nine Newspaper Reports of the Westminster Parliament
Chapter Thirty Extra-Parliamentary Reporting: The Under-Reported Life of the Working Class
Chapter Thirty-One Science and the Press
Chapter Thirty-Two The Metropolitan Press: Connections and Competition between Britain and Ireland
Chapter Thirty-Three The Provincial Press
Concluding Comments
Key Press and Periodical Events Timeline, 1900–2018
Bibliography
Index

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Information: The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press
Volumes 1-3
, pp. x - xvi

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Print publication year: 2023

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