Historical Research Using British Newspapers

Author : Denise Bates
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781473859029

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Historical Research Using British Newspapers by Denise Bates Pdf

Thanks to digitisation, newspapers from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century have become an indispensable and accessible source for researchers. Through their pages, historians with a passion for a person or a place or a time or a topic can rediscover forgotten details and gain new insights into the society and values of bygone ages.Historical Research Using British Newspapers provides plenty of practical advice for anyone intending to use old newspapers by: * outlining the strengths of newspapers as source material * revealing the drawbacks of newspapers as sources and giving ways to guard against them * tracing the development of the British newspaper industry * showing the type of information that can be found in newspapers and how it can be used * identifying the best newspapers to start with when researching a particular topic * suggesting methods to locate the most relevant articles available * demonstrating techniques for collating, analysing and interpreting information * showing how to place newspaper reports in their wider contextIn addition nine case studies are included, showing how researchers have already made productive use of newspapers to gain insights that were not available from elsewhere.

Author : Brian Lake
Publisher : London : Sheppard Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UCAL:B4032207

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British Newspapers by Brian Lake Pdf

Author : Kevin Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134280520

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Read All About It! by Kevin Williams Pdf

This Text-book traces the evolution of the newspaper, documenting its changing form, style and content as well as identifying the different roles ascribed to it by audiences, government and other social institutions. Starting with the early 17th century, when the first prototype newspapers emerged, through Dr Johnson, the growth of the radical press in the early 19th century, the Lord Northcliffe revolution in the early 20th century, the newspapers wars of the 1930s and the rise of the tabloid in the 1970s, right up to Rupert Murdoch and the online revolution, the book explores the impact of the newspapers on our lives and its role in British society. Using lively and entertaining examples, Kevin Williams illustrates the changing form of the newspaper in its social, political, economic and cultural context. As well as telling the story of the newspaper, he explores key topics in detail, making this an ideal text for students of journalism and the British newspaper. Issues include: newspapers and social change the changing face of regional newspapers the impact of new technology development of reporting techniques forms of press regulation

Author : Estelle Bunout,Maud Ehrmann,Frédéric Clavert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110729269

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Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians? by Estelle Bunout,Maud Ehrmann,Frédéric Clavert Pdf

The application of digital technologies to historical newspapers has changed the research landscape historians were used to. An Eldorado? Despite undeniable advantages, the new digital affordance of historical newspapers also transforms research practices and confronts historians with new challenges. Drawing on a growing community of practices, the impresso project invited scholars experienced with digitised newspaper collections with the aim of encouraging a discussion on heuristics, source criticism and interpretation of digitized newspapers. This volume provides a snapshot of current research on the subject and offers three perspectives: how digitisation is transforming access to and exploration of historical newspaper collections; how automatic content processing allows for the creation of new layers of information; and, finally, what analyses this enhanced material opens up. ‘impresso - Media Monitoring of the Past’ is an interdisciplinary research project that applies text mining tools to digitised historical newspapers and integrates the resulting data into historical research workflows by means of a newly developed user interface. The question of how best to adapt text mining tools and their use by humanities researchers is at the heart of the impresso enterprise.

Author : Denise Bates
Publisher : Wharncliffe
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781473831889

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Breach of Promise to Marry by Denise Bates Pdf

A look back through the history of women who were about to be married only to be left at the altar—and left with no choice but to take their revenge. A wedding day is supposed to be the happiest, most special and blessed event in a bride’s life. And most of the time, it is. But sometimes, it is not. In this fun, fascinating look at betrothals that went bust before anyone even said “I do,” the authors have collected the true stories of what happened when the groom suddenly decided “I don’t.” From the 1780s right up to the 1970s, jilted women (and the occasional crushed suitor) employed a range of tactics to bring false lovers to book. Here is a full wedding party of cases in which women found very different kinds of happy endings, such as Mary Elizabeth Smith who forged evidence of a courtship to entrap an Earl, Catherine Kempsall who shot the man who denied their engagement, Gladys Knowles who was awarded a record £10,000 in damages by a jury in 1890, and Daisy Mons who discreetly negotiated a £50,000 settlement from a nobleman. Based on original research, this social history of breach of promise shows that when men behaved badly, hell had no fury like a woman scorned.

Author : Denise Bates
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399078030

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Pit Lasses by Denise Bates Pdf

Women have long been recognized as the backbone of coalmining communities, supporting their men. Less well known is the role which they played as the industry developed, working underground alongside their husband or father, moving the coal which he had cut. The year 2012 is significant as it is the 170th anniversary of the publication of the Report of the Commission into the Employment of Children and Young People in Coal Mines (May 1842). The report findings included the revelation that in some mines half-dressed women worked alongside naked men. The resulting outrage led to the banning of females working underground three months later. The Report of the Commission has been neglected as a source for many decades with the same few quotations regularly being used to illustrate the same headline points. And yet about 500 women and girls gave statements about what mining was like in 1841 and in earlier years in different parts of the country. In conjunction with the 1841 census it paints a comprehensive, though previously unexplored picture of the work of a female miner, how she lived when not at work, how she was regarded by the wider community and what she could achieve. Although banned from working underground, women were still allowed to work above ground after 1842. In the second half of the nineteenth century around 3,000 women continued to be employed at the pit head though this was increasingly confined to the pit brow lasses of Lancashire. This book examines the life of the female miner in the nineteenth century through to the outbreak of the Great War, both at work and away from it, drawing out the largely untapped evidence within contemporary sources - and challenging received wisdoms.

Author : Alexander Andrews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : British newspapers
ISBN : OXFORD:300520049

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The History of British Journalism by Alexander Andrews Pdf

Author : Finkelstein David Finkelstein
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474424905

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Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2 by Finkelstein David Finkelstein Pdf

A thorough account of newspaper and periodical press history in Britain and Ireland from 1800-1900Provides a comprehensive history of the British and Irish Press from 1800-1900, reflected upon in 60 substantive chapters and focused case studiesSets out to capture the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in nineteenth-century Britain and IrelandOffers unique and important reassessments of nineteenth-century British and Irish press and periodical media within social, cultural, technological, economic and historical contextsThis is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history during a key period of change and development. It covers an important point of expansion in periodical and press history across the four nations of Great Britain (England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales), concentrating on cross-border and transnational comparisons and contrasts in nineteenth-century print communication. Designed to provide readers with a clear understanding of the current state of research in the field, in addition to an extensive introduction, it includes forty newly commissioned chapters and case studies exploring a full range of press activity and press genres during this intense period of change. Along with keystone chapters on the economics of the press and periodicals, production processes, readership and distribution networks, and legal frameworks under which the press operated, the book examines a wide range of areas from religious, literary, political and medical press genres to analyses of overseas and migr press and emerging developments in children's and women's press.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472524911

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The English Press by Jeremy Black Pdf

In this succinct one-volume account of the rise and fall of the English press, Jeremy Black traces the medium's history from the emergence of the country's newspaper industry to the Internet age. The English Press focuses on the major developments in the world of print journalism and sets the history of the press in wider currents of English history, political, social, economic and technological. Black takes the reader through a chronological sequence of chapters, with a final chapter exploring possible scenarios for the future of print media. He investigates whether we are witnessing the demise or simply a crisis of the press in the aftermath of the News of the World scandal and Levinson Inquiry. A new title by one of the most eminent historians of Britain and a leading expert on the history of the press, The English Press will appeal to undergraduate students of British and media history and journalism, as well as to the general reader with an interest in the history of England and the media.

Author : Katherine Kirtley Weed,Richmond Pugh Bond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258663252

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Studies of British Newspapers and Periodicals from Their Beginning To 1800 by Katherine Kirtley Weed,Richmond Pugh Bond Pdf

Studies In Philology, Extra Series, No. 2. Additional Editors Are Dougald MacMillan, And W. L. Wiley.

Author : Stuart A. Raymond
Publisher : Pen and Sword Family History
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781526779434

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Researching Local History by Stuart A. Raymond Pdf

How has the place we live in changed, developed, and grown over the centuries? That is the basic question local historians seek to answer. The answer is to be found in the sources of information that previous generations have left us. The records of parish, county, and diocesan administration, of the courts, of the national government, and of private estates, all have something to tell us about the history of the locality we are interested in. So do old newspapers and other publications. All of these sources are readily available, but many have been little used. Local historians come from a wide diversity of backgrounds. But whether you are a student researching a dissertation, a family historian interested in the wider background history of your family, a teacher, a librarian, an archivist, an academic, or are merely interested in the history of your own area, this book is for you. If you want to research local history, you need a detailed account of the myriad sources readily available. This book provides a comprehensive overview of those sources, and its guidance will enable you to explore and exploit their vast range. It poses the questions which local historians ask, and identifies the specific sources likely to answer those questions.

Author : Michael Joseph Murphy,British Association for Local History
Publisher : Chichester [England] : Published by Phillimore for British Association for Local History
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041345177

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Newspapers and Local History by Michael Joseph Murphy,British Association for Local History Pdf

Author : Alexander Andrews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10541140

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The History of British Journalism, from the Foundation of the Newspaper Press in England, to the Repeal of the Stamp Act in 1855, with Sketches of Press Celebrities by Alexander Andrews Pdf

Author : Suzie Grogan
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781592656

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Shell Shocked Britain by Suzie Grogan Pdf

We know that millions of soldiers were scarred by their experiences in the First World War trenches, but what happened after they returned home? ??Suzie Grogan reveals the First World War's disturbing legacy for soldiers and their families. How did a nation of broken men, and 'spare' women cope? ??In 1922 the British Parliament published a report into the situation of thousands of 'service patients', or mentally ill ex-soldiers still in hospital. What happened to these men? Were they cured? What treatments were on offer? And what was the reception from their families and society? ??Drawing on a huge mass of original sources, Suzie Grogan answers all those questions, combining individual case studies with a narrative on wider events. Unpublished material from the archives shows the true extent of the trauma experienced by the survivors. This is a fresh perspective on the history of the post-war period, and the plight of a traumatised nation.

Author : Penny Summerfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429945298

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Histories of the Self by Penny Summerfield Pdf

Histories of the Self interrogates historians’ work with personal narratives. It introduces students and researchers to scholarly approaches to diaries, letters, oral history and memoirs as sources that give access to intimate aspects of the past. Historians are interested as never before in how people thought and felt about their lives. This turn to the personal has focused attention on the capacity of subjective records to illuminate both individual experiences and the wider world within which narrators lived. However, sources such as letters, diaries, memoirs and oral history have been the subject of intense debate over the last forty years, concerning both their value and the uses to which they can be put. This book traces the engagement of historians of the personal with notions of historical reliability, and with the issue of representativeness, and it explores the ways in which they have overcome the scepticism of earlier practitioners. It celebrates their adventures with the meanings of the past buried in personal narratives and applauds their transformation of historical practice. Supported by case studies from across the globe and spanning the fifteenth to twenty-first centuries, Histories of the Self is essential reading for students and researchers interested in the ways personal testimony has been and can be used by historians.