An Inky Business by Matthew J Shaw Librarian
A history of the making and printing of news.
'Matt Shaw's An Inky Business is a vivid and incisive account of the origins of newspapers and their extraordinary role in the transformation of society over 200 yearsWith the very concept of news under threat, this book could not be more timely.'-Paul Lay, editor of History Today and author of Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate (2020)
Matthew J. Shaw is Librarian at The Queen’s College, Oxford, and formerly the lead curator of the Americas Collections at the British Library. He is the author of Time and the French Revolution: The Republican Calendar, 1789-Year XIV (2012).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781789143867 |
| ISBN 10 | 1789143861 |
| Title | An Inky Business |
| Author | Matthew J Shaw Librarian |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Reaktion Books |
| Year published | 2021-05-17 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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