Contents
Introduction
vii
Contributors
ix
IAIN BEAVAN
Forever Provincial?: A North British Lament
1
STEPHEN BROWN
The Market for Murder and Edinburgh’s EighteenthCentury Book Trade
21
JENNIFER MOORE
John Ferrar 1742–1804: Printer, Author and Public Man
45
MÁIRE KENNEDY
William Flyn (1740–1811) and the Readers of Munster in
the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
75
VICTORIA GARDNER
Humble Pie: John Fletcher, Business, Politics and the
Chester Chronicle
97
RIA SNOWDON
Sarah Hodgson and the Business of Print, 1800–1822
121
GRAHAM HOGG
Latter Struggles in the Life of a Provincial Bookseller and
Printer: George Miller of Dunbar, Scotland
141
MICHAEL POWELL & TERRY WYKE
Manchester Men and Manchester Magazines: Publishing
Periodicals in the Provinces in the Nineteenth Century
163
ELIZABETH TILLEY
National Enterprise and Domestic Periodicals in
Nineteenth-Century Ireland
187
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PERIODICALS AND PUBLISHERS
LISA PETERS & KATH SKINNER
Selling the News: Distributing Wrexham’s Newspapers,
1850–1900
205
STEPHEN COLCLOUGH
‘The Retail Newsagents of Lancashire ARE ON STRIKE’:
The Dispute between the Lancashire Retail Newsagents
and the ‘Northern Wholesalers’, February–September
1914
225