TONI WELLER is Senior Lecturer in History at De Montfort University, UK, and Editor of the international journal Library and Information History. She is one of the leading scholars in the burgeoning field of information history and her previous publications include Information History - An Introduction: Exploring an Emergent Field (2008).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction; T.WellerPersonal Identification as Information Flows in England, 1500-2000; E.HiggsInformation for the Public: Information Infrastructure in the Republic of Letters; B.RaywardDesigning and Gathering Information: Perspectives on Nineteenth Century Forms; P.Stiff, P.Dobraszczyk &M.EsbesterBroadside Ballads, Almanacs and The Illustrated News:Genres and Rhetoric in the Communication of Information in Denmark, 1800-1925; L.SkouvigInformation and Empire: The Information and IntelligenceBureaux of the Imperial Institute, London 1887-1949; D.Muddiman'A Valuable Handbook of Information': TheStaff Magazine in the First Half of the Twentieth Century as a Means of Information Management; A.BlackModelling Recent Information History: The 'Banditry' of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda; P.SturgesRewriting History: The Information Age and the Knowable Past; L.TredinnickConclusion: Information History in the Modern World; T.WellerSelected BibliographyIndex.

'One of the best texts I have read for a long time. The collection has an exciting objective and it forms a coherent whole; students of History and of Library and Information Science will return repeatedly to this book.' - Professor Trine Schreiber, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark 'Information History in the Modern World is a high quality work providing a useful companion to the teaching of this subject at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and a good resource for students and researchers.' - Dr Gayner Eyre, Aberystwyth University, UK