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This three-volume history will offer a definitive account of newspaper and periodical press activity across Britain and Ireland from 1650 to the present day, with original, commissioned essays and case studies addressing questions related to general social and political history, newspaper and periodical history, cultural history, and technological history. It will offer insights into political, economic and social processes that have hindered or promoted the expansion and dissemination of media information across Britain and Ireland, and explore the roles that newspapers and periodicals have played in enabling national and regional identities to emerge, cohere and diversify over time.

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The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press
  • Volume 1, Beginnings and Consolidation, 1640-1800
  • Edited by Nicholas Brownlees
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    20 October 2023
    Print publication:
    28 February 2023
  • Consisting of twenty-eight chapters and numerous case studies the volume examines the history of the British and Irish press from its seventeenth-century beginnings up until the end of the eighteenth-century. Five core chapters regard the Business of the Press (including advertising), Production and Distribution, Legal Constraints and Opportunities, Readers and Readerships, and the Emerging Identities and Communities of news writers and journalists. Other contributions focus on particular national realities such as those in Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The contributions examine features relating to the production, transmission and reception of not just news publications but also the more specialised press such as periodical essays, women's periodicals, literary and review journalism, medical journals, and the criminal and religious press. As much early modern news was a transnational phenomenon the volume includes studies on European and trans-Atlantic networks as well as the role of translation in news transmission and output.