List of Illustrations;
Acknowledgements;
Contributor Biographies;
Introduction, David Finkelstein;
PART I: Press and Periodical Economics;
1. The Economics of Press and Periodical Production, Howard Cox and Simon Mowatt;
Case Study 1: Newspapers and Advertising, Peter Robinson;
PART II: Production and Distribution;
2. Production, Helen S. Williams;
Case Study 2: John Cossar & Son and the Govan Press, Helen S. Williams;
3. The Evolution of Image-Making Industries and the Mid- to Late Victorian Press, Rose Roberto;
PART III: Readership and Distribution;
4. Readership and Distribution, Paul Raphael Rooney;
PART IV: Identities and Communities;
5. Cultural Agents and Contexts: The Professionalisation of Journalism, Joanne Shattock;
Case Study 3: New Journalism, Philip March;
Case Study 4: Letters to the Editor, Allison Cavanagh;
Case Study 5: The Reporter, Stephen Tate;
Case Study 6: The Byline, Steve Harrison;
PART V: Legal Frameworks;
6. Newspapers and the Law in the Nineteenth Century, Tom O’Malley;
PART VI: Themed Chapters;
7. The English-Language Press in Continental Europe, Diana Cooper-Richet;
8. Transnational Exchanges, M. H. Beals;
Case Study 7: The Fight in Piccadilly: How False News Went Viral in 1895, Colette Colligan;
Case Study 8: Transnational Exchange between British and Swedish Periodicals in the 1830s, Cecilia Wadsö Lecaros;
Case Study 9: An Imperial Ideology of News: News Values and Reporting about Japan in Colonial India, Amelia Bonea;
Case Study 10: The Steamship Press: An International Conduit of Information and Imperial Masculinity, Paul Raphael Rooney;
Case Study 11: The Russian Emigre Press, Helen S. Williams;
9. Literary and Review Journalism, Joanne Wilkes;
10. ‘One language is quite sufficient for the mass’: Metropolitan Journalism, the British State and the ‘Vernacular’ Periodical Press in Wales, 1840–914, Aled Gruffydd Jones;
11. The Scottish Gaelic Press, Sheila M. Kidd;
12. The Irish-Language Press: ‘A tender plant at the best of times’?, Regina Uí Chollatáin;
13. The Nineteenth-Century Denominational Press, Joan Allen;
Case Study 12: The Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette, Ian d’Alton;
14. Comics, Cartoons and the Illustrated Press, Elizabeth Tilley;
15. The Satirical Press, Michael de Nie;
16. The Medical Press and Its Public, Sally Frampton;
17. Science and the Press, Alex Csiszar;
Case Study 13: ‘Fellows that never knew each other’: Natural History Periodicals, Matthew Wale;
18. The Business Press, Melissa Score;
19. The Press and Radical Expression: Structure and Dissemination, Martin Conboy;
20. The Political Press, James Thompson;
Case Study 14: The Glasgow Herald, James Thompson;
Case Study 15: Parnell, Edmund Dwyer Gray and the Press in Ireland, Felix M. Larkin;
Case Study 16: The Nation, James Quinn;
21. The Trade and Professional Press, Andrew King;
Case Study 17: The Book Trade Press, Rachel Calder;
Case Study 18: The Armed Services Press, Margery Masterson;
22. The Leisure and Hobby Press, Christopher A. Kent;
Case Study 19: Galleries without Walls: Art and the Mechanical Mass Culture of the Press, Michael Bromley and Karen Hasin-Bromley;
23. The Sporting Press, Joel H. Wiener;
Case Study 20: Sport Reporting in the Times from 1800 to 1900, Jessie Wilkie;
24. The Children’s Press, Frederick S. Milton;
Case Study 21: Children and the News, Siân Pooley;
25. The Women’s Press, Kathryn Ledbetter;
26. The Provincial, Local and Regional Press, Andrew J. H. Jackson;
Case Study 22: The Provincial Nature of the London Letter, Andrew Hobbs;
Case Study 23: William Saunders and the Industrial Supply of News in the Late Nineteenth Century, Andrew Hobbs;
Case Study 24: The Irish Times: ‘The Protestant and Conservative daily newspaper’, Mark O’Brien;
Key Press and Periodical Events Timeline, 1800–1900;
Bibliography;
Index.