This online history of newspapers was started in the spring of 2009 and the first major updates will take place through the academic session of 2009/10. If you are interested in contributing an article to this project or becoming an editor please contact us using the contact and 'apply online; pages of this website.

SECTIONS WILL INCLUDE:

Guttenburg, Caxton and the origins of printing

The Courants: War Stories, Trade and Exploration

The Spectator - The birth of the periodical press

The Press and the French and American Revolution: John Wilkes

Cobbett, Rural Rides, Reportage and Poverty

Political agitation and the Political Press

The steam driven rotary press : The Times and The Empire

The News of the World and Popular Journalism

Crimea and The Telegraph

The High Victorian Press and the Dickensian Reading Public

New York 1900: Pultizer and Hearst - The Birth of the Tabloid

The Daily Mail

Northcliffe, Rothermere and the 30s circulation war

Beaverbrook, Churchill and the Second World War

The Rise of the Daily Mirror : Social Democracy and Post War Britain

Rupert Murdoch and the Sun

Broadsheets and educated readers - the case of The Guardian.

Trends in UK national newspapers now

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