Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press: 3: Competition and Disruption, 1900-2017

Product Description Offers a definitive history of the British and Irish Press from 1900-2017 Captures the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in twentieth-century and at the start of twenty first-century Britain and Ireland Offers unique and important reassessments of twentieth-century and contemporary British and Irish press and periodical media within social, cultural, technological, economic and historical contexts Provides a timeline of significant events for cross-reference as well as an extensive bibliography for further research At various points over the last 400 years, key political, economic and social processes, have worked to hinder or promote the expansion and dissemination of information across Britain and Ireland via newspapers and periodicals. In a contemporary era characterized by debate on the limits of devolution and the potential of independence we need to assess the roles played by newspapers and periodicals in enabling national and regional identities to emerge, cohere and diversify over time. How can we best identify the most significant of these processes? What were the critical flashpoints in their development? How have they marked the place of the press in civic society? What are the consequences in considering these within the general history of the British and Irish press? This proposed volume in a three volume series will address these matters, offering a definitive account of newspaper and periodical press activity across Britain and Ireland between 1900 and 2017, and addressing questions related to four key research interests: general social/political history; newspaper and periodical history; cultural history; technological history. A further aim is to situate such discussions within the larger framework of communication and media history. From the Inside Flap An authoritative survey of twentieth-century and contemporary British and Irish press and periodical media between 1900 and 2017This volume responds to the absence of wide-ranging, up-to-date analysis of newspapers and periodicals across Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century by providing an ambitious, interdisciplinary and research-led collection of essays that seeks to explore long-term continuities and changes. The Introduction provides an initial overview of the century by studying the evolution of the British and Irish press across five milestone years, and, in particular, examining how the leading titles in the market the popular daily newspapers sought to develop their appeal to a broad, mainstream audience. Five core chapters then analyse in more detail the central features of the environment in which the press operated: economic forces and patterns of ownership; the institutions and technologies of production and distribution; the reading audience; the legal and regulatory framework; and the identities and communities that structured the market. The main body of the volume comprises a series of thematic chapters attending to different aspects of the creation, content and impact of newspapers and periodicals in this period. A timeline of significant events for cross-reference and an extensive bibliography for further research are also included, making this a thorough resource for researchers and students alike.Martin Conboy is Professor of Journalism History at the University of Sheffield where he is also the co-director (with Adrian Bingham) of the Centre for the Study of Journalism and History. He is the author of seven single-authored books on the language and history of journalism as well as co-author and editor of nine more. Adrian Bingham is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Sheffield. He has written widely about the popular press, including Gender, Modernity, and the Popular Press in Inter-War Britain (2004), Family Newspapers? Sex, Private Life and the British Popular Press 191878 (2009) and, with Professor Martin Conboy, Tabloid Century: The Popular