Trude Dijkstra has published a report on her fantastic research project, which won one of SHARP’s 25th Anniversary Research Fellowships in 2019. You can read about the award here. Her report is attached below.
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‘War Girls: Youthful Soldiers and Writers in the Age of Modern War’ (provisional title) The explosive popularity of recent films…
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Howard Cox and Simon Mowatt, Revolutions from Grub Street: A History of Magazine Publishing in Britain
Covering magazine publishing from Grub Street until the recent past, Howard Cox and Simon Mowatt have produced a magisterial account of the industry. Throughout this study, the focus is on consumer magazines and the publishing companies that bring them to market. The result is a book that manages to weave together the various technical innovations, magazine launches, labour disputes, and corporate takeovers into an enthralling narrative that takes readers from the small print shops and jobbing journalists of the hand-press era right up to the emergence of the iPad.