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19/20C provincial print cultures @UCLan New open-access book Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist 1865-87 https://t.co/mMSleLDx7I Also https://t.co/DdNkBeiDla
Sep 24, 2020 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
NAM Rodger says in @LRB that there are “scarcely more than a score” of memoirs by ordinary sailors, in a review of Stephen Taylor’s “Sons of the Waves”, covering 1740-1840. Hmm, I thought. Book cover of Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the He He’s talking about autobiography published in book form ... but in 19C most historical writing, inc memoir, was not to be found in books, but in magazines and newspapers, as @lesliehowsam has established.
Sep 14, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
@HerHandsMyHands Same thread, now with alt text, which I should have added originally. I bought this scrapbook on eBay because I'm interested in the history of newspaper cuttings agencies (you pay them to gather cuttings on particular topics, people, organisations). 1/6 Front cover of old scrapboo...Inside page of scrapbook, s... But really it's of interest to #middlebrow scholars, as it seems to have been the property of early Mills & Boon novelist Louise Gerard (1878-1970) , and has cuttings from her first success in 1910 to the 1920s. 2/6
Sep 13, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
More eBay treasure ... I bought this scrapbook because its newspaper cuttings were provided by an agency (you pay them to gather cuttings on particular topics, people, organisations) and I'm interested in the history of newspaper cuttings agencies. 1/6 ImageImage But really it's of interest to #middlebrow scholars, as it seems to have been the property of early Mills & Boon novelist Louise Gerard (1878-1970) , and has cuttings from her first success in 1910 to the 1920s. 2/6
Sep 10, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
45 minutes before the first event of the @RS4VP digital salon, a conversation between Prof Brian Maidment and @thomassmits, winner of this year's Colby Prize for best book on Victorian newspapers and periodicals. Get the Zoom link by registering here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-soc… Thomas's book is <The European Illustrated Press and the Emergence of a Transnational Visual Culture of the News, 1842-1870> is routledge.com/The-European-I…
Jun 19, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Another new book repeats the nonsense that the Daily Telegraph was the first penny daily in the UK, and that the Press Association was launched in 1868.

Even the @galecengage @Telegraph Historical Archive repeats this false claim. Image The Telegraph was launched in June 1855, but only halved its price to a penny on 17 Sept 1855. Here’s the last issue at 2d. Image
Feb 4, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"Politics and the Press in Inter-war Britain", seminar led by James Brennan of @NewmanHistory at
University of Central Lancashire (Preston), Livesey House LH326, tomorrow (Wed 5 Feb), 4.30-5.30pm, all welcome @NewmanHistory Details:
In this period of mass democracy political appeals needed to include millions of newly enfranchised voters, both male and female. It is usually believed that these years witnessed the rising influence of the press barons and national papers while the provincial declined
Jan 13, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The Western Morning News @WMNNews was co-founded by quarry owner William Saunders, an under-rated influence on the shape of British journalism ... 2 years after the @WMNNews launch, in 1862, Saunders and co-owner Edward Spender opened a London office, to process non-local news and features faster. A year later, they offered the service to other provincial morning papers, via their Central Press news agency ...
Nov 18, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Articles in established journals with "cutesy-cue" titles get fewer citations than those spelling out the topic and conclusions of the research doi.org/10.1177/009365… You know the sort:

["Obscure but whimsical quote that means nothing until you read the whole article"]: [Now we get to the title]

Confession: I did it for one article myself.
Nov 4, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Launch of Margaret Beetham's new memoir, Home Is Where at Manchester cathedral dltbooks.com/titles/2254-97… Image How memory links our disparate earlier selves.
Margaret's parents were missionaries in colonial India (father: Leslie Newbiggin), which meant boarding schools, many different homes ...
Oct 3, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
There are 2 excellent articles (one, by chance, my own) on 19C periodicals, newspapers and broader print culture in this year's volume of the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire Nick Foggo's "In Search of Thomas Green and the Authors of Liverpool’s Caxton Press", a study of one of the UK's largest publishing empires that you've never heard of online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.382… Image
Sep 29, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Some of my favourite Cheshire local paper headlines from 2005-06 Image Image
Jul 5, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
#FlashHistories19 @DigiVictorian on his @VictorianHumour account - leading to a book and joke search engine Image An enjoyable experience, a way of sharing research.
Jul 5, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Sara Spike of @smallhistory on sharing snippets of everyday life in Nova Scotia late19C early 20C
#FlashHistories19 Rationale: celebrating details of ordinary life, which can be entry points into bigger themes - taken from newspapers
Jul 5, 2019 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Kate Newnham: timelines can say a lot in little space
#FlashHistories19 Boiling down research into an 80-word label. Or can "thread" labels if a no. of objects tell the same story
Jul 5, 2019 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Kate Newnham of Bristol Museums on writing interpretations for museum displays
#FlashHistories19 When planning an exhibition, always start with the audience
Jul 5, 2019 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
#FlashHistories19 @NTPamelaSmith on how to tell the stories of the plants in National Trust gardens? Photos of plants at one season make them unrecognizable at other seasons
Jul 5, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
#FlashHistories19 Rachel Piercey on witing/editing The Head That Wears A Crown, poems for children about kings and queens No set format for poems, gives variety, can acknowledge different interpretations of history, serves as models for children's own poetry
Jul 5, 2019 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
#FlashHistories Philip Carter of @ihr_history on brevity in historical writing Aubrey's Brief Lives (still v readable and funny) good, but not the first
Jul 5, 2019 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
#FlashHistories Camille Ralphs, poet: we're proud of English language, but its colonising history is horrific, when we look at etymologies And male domination encoded into it
Jul 5, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
#FlashHistories @WritingByZoe creative writing inspired by histories of witches Most of the source material is very grim, but ... belief that witches could steal men's penises and keep them as pets
Jul 5, 2019 • 16 tweets • 2 min read
#FlashHistories @PaulMMCooper, Fall of Civilization podcast Idea of "flash histories" can mean historians writing less and leaving creative space for the reader's imagination.