CFP: Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism online edition

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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