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This event presents Print, Politics and the Provincial Press in modern Britain which looks at provincial newspapers read by peers, politicians and the proletariat.

The provincial newspaper was read by peers, politicians and the proletariat alike. It is striking, however, how limited a range of newspapers and journals are offered for analysis in most historical studies of the political media . This volume cover previously neglected aspects of print culture, political literacy and reading practices across the regions of Britain in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to offer an introduction to research in this burgeoning field of study.

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

Welcome: Lisa Peters and Ian Cawood, Series Editors

Ian Cawood, Introduction

Duncan Frankis, 'That Nefarious Newspaper’: the Dublin Evening Post, 1789–94

Sue Thomas, ‘One of the Most Extraordinary Publications Which Has Ever Appeared …’: George Edmonds v the Monthly Argus

Helen Williams, ‘Mr O’Connor, Famous Chartist, Visits Town’: Reporting Chartism in South-west Scotland

Q&A

James Brennan, ‘We Must Get In Front of these Blighters’: Political Press Culture in the West Midlands, 1918–1925

Lisa Peters, ‘We Defy Mr Watkin Williams to Point to a Single Instance - Where His Personal Character Has Been Assailed’: he Wrexham Guardian v Watkin Williams, MP

Victoria Clarke, Identifying the Readers and Correspondents of the Northern Star, 1837-47

Q&A

Conclusion: Caroline Archer-Parré, John Hinks, Malcolm Dick