Call for Articles: Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism online edition
The editors of the DNCJ are keen to expand its coverage of the local and regional press, for the online edition - http://c19index.chadwyck.com/marketing/aboutdncj.jsp - and any revised print edition.
I am looking for short entries (400-800 words, depending on entry) on
- Leader, Robert (editor and publisher of Sheffield Independent)
- Reid, Sir Thomas Wemyss (editor of Leeds Mercury; managing director of Cassell, biographer)
- Smiles, Samuel (editor of Leeds Times)
- Gedge, Johnson, proprietor of the Bury and Norwich Post
- Baxter, W.E, of Lewes, proprietor of Sussex Agricultural Express and 23 other titles
- Birmingham Weekly Post
- Bradford Daily Telegraph (successful paper rapidly established by non-local publisher and staff)
- Bradford Observer and its editor William Byles
- Bristol Mercury
- Carlisle Journal
- Catholic Fireside
- Catholic Magazine and Reflector (1801), a Liverpool monthly "probably the earliest Catholic periodical published in England"
- Daily Bristol Times and Mirror
- Eastern Morning News, Hull
- Ipswich Journal
- Lancashire Free Press/Northern Free Press/Catholic Times, published in Liverpool.
- Leicestershire Mercury
- Liverpool Weekly Post
- Manchester Weekly Times
- Midland Counties Express
- Oxford Times
- Reading Mercury (owned by Catholic family, featured much agricultural news)
- Sheffield Independent
- Western Daily Press, Bristol
- Western Morning News, Plymouth
- Westmorland Gazette (edited briefly by de Quincey; still very literary in 1870s)
- Whitehaven News
- Advertisers (free local newspapers, e.g. Penrhyn Advertiser, Cornwall, Preston Weekly Advertiser)
- Agricultural journalism (as element, and as separate titles, e.g. Preston Guardian; Leics Advertiser; Bedford Express; Sussex Agricultural Express; North of England Farmer (Newcastle); Mark Lane Express, Bell’s Weekly Messenger)
- Almanacs
- Dialect publications
- Evening newspapers
- Independent, neutral (what the terms meant as applied to newspapers; growth of these descriptions)
- Joint stock companies (influence on increasing capitalisation of newspapers, anonymity of owners, use by Conservative provincial papers)
- Lit. and the provincial press (book reviews, excerpts, etc. were significant features in most titles; taken together, an enormous body of writing, possibly outweighing reviews produced in London)
- Local government, reporting of
- News placard (important source of news for public, often attracting crowds)
- Newspaper chains
- Newspaper office architecture (description and meanings of – miniature town halls and libraries)
- Provincial Roman Catholic press
- Provincial magazines
- Provincial religious press
- Shipping news
- Weather reports
- Women’s columns (staple of provincial press, often syndicated)
I am also looking for 1000-word entries on the periodical and newspaper press of these cities and regions (similar to current entry on Manchester press):
- Sheffield
- Leeds
- Birmingham
- South-West England
- South-East England
If you would like to write an entry or entries, contact me at ahobbs2@uclan.ac.uk with a one-page sample of your writing (published or unpublished).
Andrew Hobbs
University of Central Lancashire
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