Benjamin Collins and the Provincial Newspaper Trade in the Eighteenth Century

Benjamin Collins and the Provincial Newspaper Trade in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Christine Y. Ferdinand

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780198206521

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Behind these news networks was the entrepreneurial spirit of Benjamin Collins, a figure of national importance, who set up Salisbury's first bank, established newspapers in London and the provinces, wrote children's books with John Newbery, and whose publishing interests brought him into contact with the literary and commercial life of London. This fascinating study of the information networks of eighteenth-century provincial life will be interest to literary students and biographers as well as historians.


Newspapers and English Society 1695-1855

Newspapers and English Society 1695-1855

Author: Hannah Barker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-17

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1317883454

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This lively new study covers the dramatic expansion of the press from the seventeenth century to the mid nineteenth century. Hannah Barker explores the factors behind the rise of newspapers to a major force helping to reflect and shape public opinion and altering the way in which politics operated at every level of English life. Newspapers, Politics and English Society 1695-1855 provides a unique insight into the political and social history of eighteenth and nineteenth century England as well as an important study of the history of the media.


The Business of News in England, 1760–1820

The Business of News in England, 1760–1820

Author: Victoria E. M. Gardner

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-26

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1137336390

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The Business of News in England, 1760-1820 explores the commerce of the English press during a critical period of press politicization, as the nation confronted foreign wars and revolutions that disrupted domestic governance.


The Invention of the Newspaper

The Invention of the Newspaper

Author: Joad Raymond

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780199282340

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First published in 1996, and here issued with a new preface, this work describes the emergence of the first weekly news publications, the immediate precursors of the modern newspaper. Previous ed.: Oxford: Clarendon, 1996.


The Creation of the Modern World

The Creation of the Modern World

Author: Roy Porter

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 776

ISBN-13: 9780393048728

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From a critically acclaimed author comes an engagingly written and groundbreaking new work that highlights the long-underestimated British role in delivering the Enlightenment to the modern world. Porter reveals how the monumental transformation of thinking in Great Britain influenced wider developments elsewhere. of color illustrations.


Little Goody Two-Shoes and Other Stories

Little Goody Two-Shoes and Other Stories

Author: Matthew O. Grenby

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-07-07

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1137274298

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John Newbery is celebrated as the first successful publisher of children's books, and the founder of modern children's literature. Three classic works published by Newbery (the authors unknown) are now available for a new generation of readers. Edited by M. O. Grenby, with an introduction, explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading.


Re-examining the UK Newspaper Industry

Re-examining the UK Newspaper Industry

Author: Marc Edge

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-10-31

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 0429890060

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This book dispels myths surrounding the newspaper industry’s financial viability in an online world, arguing that widespread predictions of pending newspaper extinction are based mostly on misunderstandings of the industry’s operations. Drawing from his training as a business journalist, Marc Edge undertakes a thorough analysis of annual financial statements provided by newspaper companies themselves to explain the industry’s arcane economics. This book contextualizes available data within the historical context in which various news publishers operate and outlines the economic history of UK newspapers. It also investigates how UK newspapers survived the 2008–09 recession, considering both national and provincial markets separately. A rigorous look at an often-neglected aspect of the newspaper industry, this volume will be an essential read for scholars of media studies, journalism studies, and communication studies, especially those interested in studying journalism and news production as occupational identities.


Exit Capitalism

Exit Capitalism

Author: Simon During

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-10

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1135278687

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Exit Capitalism explores a new path for cultural studies and re-examines key moments of British cultural and literary history. Simon During argues that the long and liberating journey towards democratic state capitalism has led to an unhappy dead-end from which there is no imaginable exit.


The Siblys of London

The Siblys of London

Author: Susan Sommers

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-04-25

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0190687347

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Ebenezer Sibly was a quack doctor, plagiarist, and masonic ritualist in late eighteenth-century London; his brother Manoah was a respectable accountant and a pastor who ministered to his congregation without pay for fifty years. The inventor of Dr. Sibly's Reanimating Solar Tincture, which claimed to restore the newly dead to life, Ebenezer himself died before he turned fifty and stayed that way despite being surrounded by bottles of the stuff. Asked to execute his will, which urged the continued manufacture of Solar Tincture, and left legacies for multiple and concurrent wives as well as an illegitimate son whose name the deceased could not recall, Manoah found his brother's record of financial and moral indiscretions so upsetting that he immediately resigned his executorship. Ebenezer's death brought a premature conclusion to a colorfully chaotic life, lived on the fringes of various interwoven esoteric subcultures. Drawing on such sources as ratebooks and pollbooks, personal letters and published sermons, burial registers and horoscopes, Susan Mitchell Sommers has woven together an engaging microhistory that offers useful revisions to scholarly accounts of Ebenezer and Manoah, while placing the entire Sibly family firmly in the esoteric byways of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Siblys of London provides fascinating insight into the lives of a family who lived just outside our usual historical range of vision.