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The Business of News in England, 1760–1820

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137336392

ISBN: 978-1-349-57447-6

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Dec 23, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Gardner, Victoria E. M.

Pages: 1 –14

[Edward Villiers Rippingille’s The Post Office (1819) depicts the busy heart of an English country town.1 The post has arrived, letters, parcels and newspapers have been delivered, customers dropped off and others collected. In the distance there is a commotion as the post coach with travellers...
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Chapter 2The English Press

Gardner, Victoria E. M.

Pages: 15 –46

[Eighteenth-century newspapers, comprising single sheets of paper folded once and printed with time-sensitive information (‘news’) and advertising on both sides, contributed to a new understanding of their readers’ worlds. Published with metronomic regularity, carried by wagon, by post and on...
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Chapter 3Advertisements, Agents and Exchange

Gardner, Victoria E. M.

Pages: 47 –67

[In 1797 the provincial press was in high foment. As the French Revolutionary wars continued, greater taxation was required to support the war effort. Along with a raft of other taxes newspaper stamp and advertisement duties were set to rise. Yet as the provincial press saw it, raising...
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Chapter 4Provincial Newspaper Proprietors

Gardner, Victoria E. M.

Pages: 68 –92

[Surveying his life, Charles Knight recalled the anxiety of his seventeen-year-old self over his future career. The traditional professions—law, church, army and medicine—were closed to him because his father was unwilling to let him leave Windsor. Literature proved unappealing. Instead, Knight...
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Chapter 5Securing the Family, Embedding the Trade

Gardner, Victoria E. M.

Pages: 93 –116

[It is a truism that eighteenth-century tradesmen and women worked in and for the family unit. The newspaper trade was no different. Celebrated entrepreneurs, often presented as successful individuals, worked as part of a family unit. John Newbery of the Reading Mercury, children’s book publisher...
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Chapter 6Communities and Communications Brokers

Gardner, Victoria E. M.

Pages: 117 –137

[Provincial newspapers were part of an emerging environment of communications in late-eighteenth-century England in which printers brought news from across the globe into the lives of provincial inhabitants. Yet the way in which that news was formed—with national and global worldviews...
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Chapter 7News Networks

Gardner, Victoria E. M.

Pages: 138 –161

[The greatest power of the communications broker was in his or her connections with other communications brokers, both in the development of the trade itself and in the movement of information across it.1 Information and opinion did not simply pulse unaided across region, nation and globe,...
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Chapter 8Conclusion

Gardner, Victoria E. M.

Pages: 162 –165

[As Joseph Gales described in the first edition of his Sheffield Register, producing a successful newspaper required a fine balance of careful composition that was sensitive to readers’ tastes and ready to combat rival opinions, as well as hard work and financial investment. For this, he or she...

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