1st Edition

The Press and Society From Caxton to Northcliffe

By Geoffrey Alan Cranfield Copyright 1978
    250 Pages
    by Routledge

    250 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1978.This book surveys the history of the Press as a whole in relation to the development of society - beginning with the introduction of the art of printing into England in 1476.

    Chapter 1 From the beginnings to 1695; Chapter 2 Intelligence, instruction and entertainment 1695–1760; Chapter 3 Liberty, licentiousness and venality; Chapter 4 The early Radical Press and the Sunday newspaper; Chapter 5 The growth of a new reading public and the struggle to control it; Chapter 6 The age of The Times; Chapter 7 The provincial Press, 1701–1854; Chapter 8 The explosion: from 1855 to the advent of Northcliffe; conclusion Conclusion;

    Biography

    G. A. Cranfield