[Commlist] New book: A Fleet Street in Every Town: The Provincial Press in England, 1855-1900

My book, A Fleet Street in Every Town: The Provincial Press in England, 
1855-1900, is now out, from Open Book Publishers. There are free 
open-access editions, plus hardback, paperback and e-book editions.

https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/835

About the book:

At the heart of Victorian culture was the local weekly newspaper. More 
popular than books, more widely read than the London papers, the local 
press was a national phenomenon. This book redraws the Victorian 
cultural map, shifting our focus away from one centre, London, and 
towards the many centres of the provinces. It offers a new paradigm in 
which place, and a sense of place, are vital to the histories of the 
newspaper, reading and publishing.

Hobbs offers new perspectives on the nineteenth century from an enormous 
yet neglected body of literature: the hundreds of local newspapers 
published and read across England. He reveals the people, processes and 
networks behind the publishing, maintaining a unique focus on readers 
and what they did with the local paper as individuals, families and 
communities. Case studies and an unusual mix of quantitative and 
qualitative evidence show that the vast majority of readers preferred 
the local paper, because it was about them and the places they loved.

A Fleet Street in Every Town positions the local paper at the centre of 
debates on Victorian newspapers, periodicals, reading and publishing. It 
reorientates our view of the Victorian press away from metropolitan high 
culture and parliamentary politics, and towards the places where most 
people lived, loved and read. This is an essential book for anybody 
interested in nineteenth-century print culture, journalism and reading.


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