Studies in Newspaper and Periodical History, 1994 Annual

MICHAEL HARRIS, Senior Lecturer in History, Centre for Extra-Mural Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, founded the Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History in 1984 and acted as executive editor of this publication until 1993 when he organized the change to the Annual Studies volume. He has written extensively about the history of the newspaper press in particular and the development of the print culture in England generally. Among his many published works are London Newspapers in the Age of Walpole (1987), The Press in English Society from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century (1987), Serials and Their Readers from 1620 (1993), and A History of the English Newspaper Press, 1620-1990 (forthcoming).TOM O'MALLEY is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Glamorgan, Wales. He has published on the seventeenth-century press and on United Kingdom broadcasting policy and history. He is the author of Closedown? The BBC and Government Broadcasting Policy: 1979-1992 (1994).

• Preface The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries The Great Assises Holden in Parnassus: The Reputation and Reality of Seventeenth-Century Newsbooks by Joad Raymond "The Premier Scribbler Himself": Sir Robert Walpole and the Management of Political Opinion by Simon Targett Arthur Young and "Ten or a Dozen Bestsellers": The Publication of the Universal Museum in 1762 by Barbara Laning Fitzpatrick Reporting a Treason Trial in 1798 by C. C. Barfoot Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries The Americanization of the British Press, 1830-1914 by Joel H. Wiener Bunanu-Varilla and the Dreyfus Case: Le Matin's Publication of the Bordereau by Robert L. Spellman "You Can't Believe a Word You Read": Newspaper-reading in the British Expeditionary Forces, 1914-1918 by Nicholas Hiley "Selling the Pass": The Daily Herald and the 1923 Dock Strike by Huw Richards Sources for Newspaper and Periodical History Records of the Establishment of The London Daily Advertiser in 1751 by Barbara Laning Fitzpatrick Sources for Newspaper History in the National Register of Archives by Louise Craven Newspaper Archives: A Legacy of Indifference by Eamon Dyas Music Journalism and the Public Sphere in Stockholm, 1780 by Kristina Widestedt Annual Review of Work in Newspaper History by Diana Dixon Reviews Index