Output details
30 - History
University of Huddersfield
Book title
The Dawn of the Cheap Press in Victorian Britain: The End of the 'Taxes on Knowledge', 1849-1869
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN of book
9781472511546
Year of publication
2013
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
Yes
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
This monograph-length study offers both the first detailed account of the campaign against the taxes on knowledge for over 100 years, but also of the impact of the repeal of these taxes on the history of the press in the later 1850s and 1860s. It exploits extensive archival research, drawing on material in British and overseas repositories, and the fruits of systematic work in the newly available digital collections of nineteenth-century newspapers. It offers a broad-ranging corrective to conventional accounts, addressing scholarship from media history, political history and the history of publishing.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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