Fleet Street : five hundred years of the press
"This authoritative history of the newspaper press in London, from its earliest days through to the relaunch of The Guardian last year, tells a fascinating story. From the 'newsbooks' of the English Civil War period, and rigorously state-controlled newspapers (such as the London Gazette) launched afterwards, the newspaper industry has adapted and survived to 'give the readers what they want'." "Griffiths shows how political and commercial opportunism, technological advances, price wars, the race to be first with news, the influence of editors, great feature writers, gossip columnists, advertising campaigns, the invention of the cartoon strip and cross-words, the power of the Press Barons - and then the breaking of the power of the unions - have all contributed to the 500-year story."--Jacket
Exhibition catalogues
xvii, 458 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
9780712306973, 0712306978
64313348
1. Printing comes to Fleet Street
2. The first daily newspaper
3. Launching The Times
4. Plant here The Standard
5. 'Taxes on knowledge' repealed
6. The new journalism
7. The greatest hustler
8. Dalziel entrepreneur
9. Enter Max Aitken
10. Brothers from Wales
11. The general strike
12. Burnham sells the Telegraph
13. Prerogative of the harlot
14. Fleet Street at war
15. Shortage of newsprint
16. Press council proposed
17. The Mirror triumphant
18. Death of Beaverbrook
19. The road to Wapping
20. Towards the millennium
21. The electronic future
Published to accompany the exhibition 'The Front Page' held at the British Library in Spring 2006
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