Print, Politics and the Provincial Press in Modern Britain

Ian Cawood is Reader in Modern History at Newman University, Birmingham, UK. He is the author of The Liberal Unionist Party, 1886-1912: A History (2012) and the editor of Joseph Chamberlain: Imperial Statesman, National Leader and Local Icon (2016).Lisa Peters works in academic administration at the University of Chester, UK. She is the author of Politics, Publishing and Personalities: Wrexham Newspapers, 1848-1914 (2011).

• CONTENTS: Duncan Frankis: «That Nefarious Newspaper»: The Dublin Evening Post, 1789–1794 - Judith Davies: A «Paper War»: John Rann, George Walters and the Political Print Culture in Dudley, Worcestershire, c. 1814–1832 - Susan Thomas: «One of the Most Extraordinary Publications Which Has Ever Appeared …»: George Edmonds v the Monthly Argus - Helen Williams: «Mr O’Connor, Famous Chartist, Visits Town»: Reporting Chartism in South-west Scotland - Paul Wilson: Hopeful Words and the Neighbourly Order of the World: Revealing Radical Language Practice through Traces of Temporary Ownership - James Brennan/Ian Cawood: «We Must Get In Front of These Blighters»: Political Press Culture in the West Midlands, 1918–1925 - Lisa Peters: «We Defy Mr Watkin Williams to Point to a Single Instance … Where His Personal Character Has Been Assailed»: The Wrexham Guardian v Watkin Williams, MP - Victoria Clarke: Identifying the Readers and Correspondents of the Northern Star, 1837–1847 - Catherine Ferris: The Freeman’s Journal, Evening Packet and Saunders’s News-Letter: Musical Identities, Political Identities.

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