Read All About It!

Name: Read All About It!
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Read All About It!A History of the British Newspaper\nAuthor(s): Kevin Williams\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415346238, 978-0415346238\nSynopsis\nThis Text-book traces the evolution of the newspaper, documenting its changing form, style and content as well as identifying the different roles ascribed to it by audiences, government and other social institutions. \n\nStarting with the early 17th century, when the first prototype newspapers emerged, through Dr Johnson, the growth of the radical press in the early 19th century, the Lord Northcliffe revolution in the early 20th century, the newspapers wars of the 1930s and the rise of the tabloid in the 1970s, right up to Rupert Murdoch and the online revolution, the book explores the impact of the newspapers on our lives and its role in British society.\n\nUsing lively and entertaining examples, Kevin Williams illustrates the changing form of the newspaper in its n