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This article presents information about the "Morning Herald" newspaper in London and the story of its editors Reverend Henry Bate, Alexander Chalmers and Charles Newby. As a West End paper providing coverage of domestic and foreign news, theatre news, parliamentary debates, and a healthy dose of gossip and scandal, the "Morning Herald" was a successful paper that remained in circulation until 1869. The coverage of the Parliamentary proceedings distinguished the "Morning Herald" as one of the first newspapers to give liberal space for the reporting of Parliament. The letter in the newspaper was written by Bate that leads to his imprisonment at the King's Bench Prison and his editorial responsibilities was turned over to Alexander Chalmers. Bate's retirement as an editor made lots of controversy over the rival newspaper at the time.

A satirical weekly paper called theGrub-Street Journal(GSJ1730–1737)offered an innovative approach to managing the flow of unverified and contradictory reports that accompanied the growth of newspapers in eighteenth-century London. Using the fictional persona of ‘Quidnunc’ (a contemporary term for news addicts), the editor Richard Russel compiled accounts of the same event from several newspapers and juxtaposed them on the page, thereby revealing their similarities and differences. Russel’s manual version of news ‘aggregation’ exposed errors and contradictions, but it also provided readers with details that would have otherwise required consulting several sources. Meanwhile, Quidnunc interjected ironic remarks, poking fun at the pretensions of news writers, politicians, and others. Anchored in the literary culture of its time, and drawing on learned traditions of textual editing, theGSJoffered readers an eighteenth-century version of media criticism through satire. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Michael Harris, a historian and founding editor of Media History, passed away in December 2022. He was known for his research on the eighteenth-century newspaper press and the book trade. Harris played a significant role in establishing newspaper and periodical history as a mainstream area of study. He authored several important articles and a monograph on London newspapers in the 1720s and 30s. Additionally, Harris co-founded the Annual Conferences on Book Trade History and was instrumental in the creation and development of the Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History, Studies in Newspaper and Periodical History, and Media History. He was highly regarded as a scholar, teacher, and supportive colleague. [Extracted from the article]

The title of this paper refers to both the personality and work of the Spaniards who, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, had to abandon their homeland fleeing from the absolutism of King Ferdinand VII (1784–1833), and the inhabitants of the Spanish colonies in the New World, the forerunners of the struggles for independence in their respective countries. Both ended up settling in London, a city that served not only as a refuge but also as a place from which to disseminate their slogans in favour of freedom. Three areas are discussed: the publications of liberal Spanish exiles in London in the early nineteenth century, the interaction between Spanish and (Latin) American exiles and the role of women in this endeavour and in the cause of liberalism in general. The London press shaped this exile journalism and the subsequent liberal journalism in Spain when the extreme censorship from which these exiled journalists had fled was finally lifted. We believe that this global approach offers an original perspective from which to highlight the role of women, with a view to filling the traditional historiographical lacuna in this regard. To this end, we have employed recent relevant literature and primary sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses highlights of an international conference on media history held at the University of Westminster in London, England. Relation between politics and the mass media; Definition of media history; Session imperialism and the media.

The history of newspapers is traditionally written from a national perspective. Paradoxically, however, the gathering and distribution of news undertaken by seventeenth century newspapers was transnational. This article shows some of the methodological problems this paradox raises. Through a case study of the weekly London newsbook Mercurius Politicus, it demonstrates the nature and significance of international news in seventeenth century Britain. The history of the early newspaper needs to be rewritten from the perspective of pan-European communication networks. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Long before they were analyzed by demographers, the London bills of mortality circulated among the public, shaping the way people in the seventeenth century understood the geography of the city, the spread of disease, and the passage of time. Focusing on their role during the London plague of 1665, this article examines how the bills of mortality were produced, distributed, and interpreted. Reconstructing this process reveals how the reporting of the epidemic depended upon the collective efforts of hundreds of individuals acting at the local parish level. For better and for worse, the bills of mortality were collaborative texts that fed back into the collective behavior of the community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Uneven access to television archives across Europe has posed a number of problems for transnational and historical comparison. Developments in online technologies have promised new opportunities for creating access to television content at national and international levels, yet the potential for transnational comparison remains problematic. This report focuses on Video Active, a major European collaboration between broadcasters, archives, technologists and television scholars to create online access to television programming and to promote comparative approaches to television history. The report will illustrate, however, a number of factors that continue to inhibit online access to television content, and it will show how classificatory schemes and metadata can influence the pre-selection, interpretation and comparison of accessible programming. The report will go on to explore how the project has developed practical solutions to some of these issues and will suggest that continued collaboration on a larger scale may yet hold the long-term answers to problems of access and interpretation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Announces the conference on the de-accessioning of newspaper from research libraries in London, England. Sponsors of the event; Agenda of the conference; Organizers of the meeting.

This article focuses on English newsbooks and the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641. The newsbook Heads of Severall Proceedings in the Parliament of November, 1641, was published in London. Printed in small quarto, it consisted of a title page, a blank verso and six pages of text, which conveyed a scant chronicle of what had transpired in Parliament. A second issue of Heads of Severall Proceedings appeared on December 6, and with this, the first periodical to communicate domestic news in England had been born. Sixteen separate serials were in operation by January 1642, and the introduction that month of issue numeration and consecutive pagination from one week to the next, helped consolidate the concept of periodical news.