Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2

David Finkelstein is a cultural historian who has published in areas related to print, labour and press history. Recent publications include Movable Types: Roving Creative Printers of the Victorian World (2018), and the edited Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, volume 2: Expansion and Evolution, 1800–1900 (2020), winner of the 2021 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize for its contribution to the promotion of Victorian press studies.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsContributor BiographiesIntroduction, David FinkelsteinPART I: Press and Periodical Economics1. The Economics of Press and Periodical Production, Howard Cox and Simon MowattCase Study 1: Newspapers and Advertising, Peter RobinsonPART II: Production and Distribution2. Production, Helen S. WilliamsCase Study 2: John Cossar & Son and the Govan Press, Helen S. Williams3. The Evolution of Image-Making Industries and the Mid- to Late Victorian Press, Rose RobertoPART III: Readership and Distribution4. Readership and Distribution, Paul Raphael RooneyPART IV: Identities and Communities5. Cultural Agents and Contexts: The Professionalisation of Journalism, Joanne ShattockCase Study 3: New Journalism, Philip MarchCase Study 4: Letters to the Editor, Allison CavanaghCase Study 5: The Reporter, Stephen TateCase Study 6: The Byline, Steve HarrisonPART V: Legal Frameworks6. Newspapers and the Law in the Nineteenth Century, Tom O’MalleyPART VI: Themed Chapters7. The English-Language Press in Continental Europe, Diana Cooper-Richet8. Transnational Exchanges, M. H. BealsCase Study 7: The Fight in Piccadilly: How False News Went Viral in 1895, Colette ColliganCase Study 8: Transnational Exchange between British and Swedish Periodicals in the 1830s, Cecilia Wadsö LecarosCase Study 9: An Imperial Ideology of News: News Values and Reporting about Japan in Colonial India, Amelia BoneaCase Study 10: The Steamship Press: An International Conduit of Information and Imperial Masculinity, Paul Raphael RooneyCase Study 11: The Russian Emigre Press, Helen S. Williams9. Literary and Review Journalism, Joanne Wilkes10. ‘One language is quite sufficient for the mass’: Metropolitan Journalism, the British State and the ‘Vernacular’ Periodical Press in Wales, 1840–914, Aled Gruffydd Jones11. The Scottish Gaelic Press, Sheila M. Kidd12. The Irish-Language Press: ‘A tender plant at the best of times’?, Regina Uí Chollatáin13. The Nineteenth-Century Denominational Press, Joan AllenCase Study 12: The Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette, Ian d’Alton14. Comics, Cartoons and the Illustrated Press, Elizabeth Tilley15. The Satirical Press, Michael de Nie16. The Medical Press and Its Public, Sally Frampton17. Science and the Press, Alex CsiszarCase Study 13: ‘Fellows that never knew each other’: Natural History Periodicals, Matthew Wale18. The Business Press, Melissa Score19. The Press and Radical Expression: Structure and Dissemination, Martin Conboy20. The Political Press, James ThompsonCase Study 14: The Glasgow Herald, James ThompsonCase Study 15: Parnell, Edmund Dwyer Gray and the Press in Ireland, Felix M. LarkinCase Study 16: The Nation, James Quinn21. The Trade and Professional Press, Andrew KingCase Study 17: The Book Trade Press, Rachel CalderCase Study 18: The Armed Services Press, Margery Masterson22. The Leisure and Hobby Press, Christopher A. KentCase Study 19: Galleries without Walls: Art and the Mechanical Mass Culture of the Press, Michael Bromley and Karen Hasin-Bromley23. The Sporting Press, Joel H. WienerCase Study 20: Sport Reporting in the Times from 1800 to 1900, Jessie Wilkie24. The Children’s Press, Frederick S. MiltonCase Study 21: Children and the News, Siân Pooley25. The Women’s Press, Kathryn Ledbetter26. The Provincial, Local and Regional Press, Andrew J. H. JacksonCase Study 22: The Provincial Nature of the London Letter, Andrew HobbsCase Study 23: William Saunders and the Industrial Supply of News in the Late Nineteenth Century, Andrew HobbsCase Study 24: The Irish Times: ‘The Protestant and Conservative daily newspaper’, Mark O’BrienKey Press and Periodical Events Timeline, 1800–1900BibliographyIndex

This hefty volume should be present in each university library, as a precious, and indispensable tool for students and scholars who investigate not only the British and Irish nineteenth-century press, but Victorian culture and technology, visual studies, advertisement and, generally, the complex and evolving relationship between Victorian readers and printed information.