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Subtitle: a history of the British newspaper
By: Kevin Williams.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415346238; 9780415346245
Subjects: Press -- Great Britain -- History; English newspapers -- History
Table of contents: title: Introduction: news, newspapers and society. Spreading the word: the pre-history of newspapers, 1486-1660; title: Newspapers for the few: politics, the press and  partisanship, 1660-1789; title: Knowledge and power: the radical newspaper, 1789-1850; title: Transition to democracy: the press as 'the fourth estate', 1850-1890; title: The Northcliffe revolution: the rise of the commercial newspaper 1890-1922; title: Newspaper wars: the press in the inter war years, 1922-1939; title: War, social change and reconstruction: newspapers at war and peace, 1939-1967; title: The land of the rising sun: the emergence of the tabloid newspaper, 1967-1989; title: The long goodbye: the newspaper and technological change 1989-present.