Communities of Communication: Newspapers and
Periodicals in Britain and Ireland from 1900 to the Present
Thursday 11 September
Early lunch and welcome 12.00
1.00 - 3.00 Single session of 3 papers:
Representations of Politics in Time of War
Caroline Dale, Aberystwyth University
The Daily Express: Content, Readership and the Second World War
Kris Lovell, Aberystwyth University
Communicating with the Electorate: The 1945 General Election and the Popular Press in
Britain
Tim Luckhurst, University of Kent
“An Unworkable Policy Which Encourages the Enemy to Fight to the Last Gasp”: Depiction in
British and American Newspapers of the Allied Policy of Unconditional Surrender for Germany,
1943-1945.
Mark O’Brien, Dublin City University
“Behind the War-Fronts in Spain”: The Politics of Irish National Coverage of the Spanish Civil
War
3.00 tea – 3.30
3.30 – 5.30
2 parallel sessions 3/4 papers: periodicals and women
Session A
Writing For and From Women
Clare Jenkins, Sheffield Hallam University
Woman’s Weekly: The Magazine for the ‘Average’ Woman
Allison Cavanagh, University of Leeds
Ladies of the Times: Women’s Letters to the Editor at the Turn of the Century
Jane Chapman, Lincoln University
Work or Domesticity? Activist Women’s Reader Reactions to the ‘Marriage Bar’ as a Snapshot of
Twentieth Century Press Tensions between Class and gender
Session B
Periodicals as National and Transnational Constructs
Scott Eldridge II, Sheffield University
The Literary Turn: The American Influence on British Periodical Journalism
Thomas Sojka, University of St Andrews
Caught in the Vortex: Historicising Blast
Louise Kane, De Montford University
Communities of Connectivity in the Dublin Periodical Scene
Ian d’Alton, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
In a ‘Comity of Cultures’: The Irish Statesman Journal, 1919-1930
Friday 12 September
Keynote 9.30 – 10.30
Professor Tom O’Malley, Aberystwyth University
‘The Elusive Reader: UK Newspapers and their readers during World War II’
10.30 Coffee
11.00 – 1.00 2 parallel sessions of 4 papers
Session A
Fashioning a Market
Guy Hodgson, University of Chester
William Percival Crozier: Editor Manchester Guardian, 1932-1944
Herbert Pimlott, Wilfred Laurier University
From the Party Line to the Politics of Design: The Visual-Material Transformation of Marxism
Today
Ruth Stoker, University of Huddersfield
The History of Changing Format in British Newspapers during the ‘Compact Revolution’ 20032006 and the Use of Newspaper Design in Reframing the British Press
Felix Larkin, Director of the Parnell Summer School ‘Casting Pearls Before Paudeens’: The
Periodical Press in Twentieth Century Ireland
Session B
Commodification and Materialisation of Communities
Aaron Ackerley, University of Sheffield
Economic Discourse and the Quality Press: A case Study of the Times and the Manchester
Guardian in the Interwar Period
Rachel Matthews, Coventry University
When ‘Serving the Good of the Community’ Rings Hollow for Newspaper Workers
James O’Donnell, NUI Galway
“I Trust Therefore that You Will Turn Down the Proposal”: International News Agency
Attitudes to the Irish News Agency, 1950-1957.
Irina Spector-Marks, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
English Press Opinion” and the Policing of Britishness in Indian Opinion, 1903-1914
1.0 – 1.45 lunch
1.45 – 3.45 2 parallel sessions of 4
Session A
Print in Troubled Times
Christopher Doughan, Dublin City University
The Printed Word in Troubled Times: The Irish Provincial Press, 1916-1921
Ian Kenneally, NUI Galway
The Rise and fall of the Mosquito Press: Periodicals in Ireland, 1914-1923
Catherine O. Ahearn, Boston University
Cruiskeen Lawn and the Visual Communication of Meaning in the Irish Times
Simon Roberts, University of Chester
‘Fire in Llyn’: Welsh newspaper responses to the rise of political nationalism in the 1930s
Session B
Popular and Scandalous Discourses
William Ham Bevan, Cardiff University
Keith Waterhouse, Nostalgia and the Tabloid Column
Helena Mills, University College, Oxford
Are You With It? The Popular Press and the Construction of Youth in 1960’s Britain
Margery Mateson, University of Bristol
Bully’s Pulpit: Army Hazing Scandals and the British Press
Stephen Tate, University College of Football Business, Burnley
“My Football Days Are Over Owing to the Gunshot Wounds in My Leg”: James Catton, Letters
to the Editor and the Early Twentieth Century Sporting News
Coffee and editorial roundtable (all invited) 3.45 – 5.00