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100 1 _aHobbs, Andrew,
_eauthor.
245 1 2 _aA Fleet Street in every town
_h[electronic resource] :
_bthe provincial press in England, 1855-1900 /
_cAndrew Hobbs.
264 1 _bOpen Book Publishers,
300 _a1 online resource (478 pages) :
_b64 colour illustrations.
500 _aAvailable through Open Book Publishers.
504 _aIncludes bibliography (pages 393-429) and index.
505 0 _aAcknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Readers of the Local Press -- 2. Reading Places -- 3. Reading Times -- 4. What They Read: The Production of the Local Press in the 1860s -- 5. What They Read: The Production of the Local Press in the 1880s -- 6. Who Read What -- 7. Exploiting a Sense of Place -- 8. Class, Dialect and the Local Press: How 'They' Joined 'Us' -- 9. Win-win: The Local Press and Association Football -- 10. How Readers Used the Local Paper -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index.
506 _aOpen access resource providing free access.
520 _a"At the heart of Victorian culture was the local weekly newspaper. More popular than books, more widely read than the London papers, the local press was a national phenomenon. This book redraws the Victorian cultural map, shifting our focus away from one centre, London, and towards the many centres of the provinces. It offers a new paradigm in which place, and a sense of place, are vital to the histories of the newspaper, reading and publishing. Hobbs offers new perspectives on the nineteenth century from an enormous yet neglected body of literature: the hundreds of local newspapers published and read across England. He reveals the people, processes and networks behind the publishing, maintaining a unique focus on readers and what they did with the local paper as individuals, families and communities. Case studies and an unusual mix of quantitative and qualitative evidence show that the vast majority of readers preferred the local paper, because it was about them and the places they loved. A Fleet Street in Every Town positions the local paper at the centre of debates on Victorian newspapers, periodicals, reading and publishing. It reorientates our view of the Victorian press away from metropolitan high culture and parliamentary politics, and towards the places where most people lived, loved and read. This is an essential book for anybody interested in nineteenth-century print culture, journalism and reading."--Publisher's website.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
540 _aThe text of this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.
650 0 _aBritish newspapers
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aJournailsm, Regional
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aNewspaper publishing
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory.
710 2 _aOpen Book Publishers,
_epublisher.
856 4 0 _uhttp://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0152
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