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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778470003321

Autore

Williams Kevin

Titolo

Read all about it! [[electronic resource] ] : a history of the British newspaper / / Kevin Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-134-28053-X

1-282-31540-4

9786612315404

0-203-59689-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Disciplina

072/.09

Soggetti

Press - Great Britain - History

English newspapers - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-288) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Figures --  Preface --  History of the newspaper in Britain: Key moments --  Introduction: News, newspapers and society --  1. Spreading the word: The pre-history of the British newspaper, 1486-1660 --  2. Newspapers for the few: Politics, the press and partisanship, 1660-1789 --  3. Knowledge and power: The Radical press, 1789-1850 --  4. Transition to democracy: The press as 'the fourth estate', 1850-90 --  5. The northcliffe revolution: The rise of the commercial newspaper, 1890-1922 --  6. Newspaper wars: The press in the inter-war years, 1922-39  --  7. War, social change and reconstruction: Newspapers at war and peace, 1939-678 --  8. The land of the rising sun: The emergence of the tabloid newspaper, 1967-89 --  9. The long goodbye: The newspaper and technological change, 1989 to the present --  Further reading --  Notes --  Bibliography --  Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This Text-book traces the evolution of the newspaper, documenting its changing form, style and content as well as identifying the different roles ascribed to it by audiences, government and other social institutions. Starting with the early 17th century, when the first prototype newspapers emerged, through Dr Johnson, the growth of the



radical press in the early 19th century, the Lord Northcliffe revolution in the early 20th century, the newspapers wars of the 1930s and the rise of the tabloid in the 1970s, right up to Rupert Murdoch and the on