The Ermine is a large housing estate in Lincoln built by the local authorities in the 1950s. This article reports on investigations of the history of the estate carried out since 2008. 1 The account draws upon a summary of progress that was presented to ‘Researching and Writing Local Histories of the Twentieth Century’, a combined conference of the British Association for Local History and the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology in 2010. The conference paper explored a relatively uncharted aspect of the history of Lincoln, the story of the Ermine, as well as made reference to a wider historiographical context concerning the development of local history and approaches to the local historical study of the twentieth century. This article, developing upon the conference paper, brings together a number of lines of enquiry opened up by the case-study explorations on the Ermine.
{"title":"Problematising and Practising ‘Community-Focused’ Local History: On the Ermine, A Council Estate in Lincoln in the 1950s and 1960s","authors":"A. Jackson","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2010.6.2.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2010.6.2.48","url":null,"abstract":"The Ermine is a large housing estate in Lincoln built by the local authorities in the 1950s. This article reports on investigations of the history of the estate carried out since 2008. 1 The account draws upon a summary of progress that was presented to ‘Researching and Writing Local Histories of the Twentieth Century’, a combined conference of the British Association for Local History and the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology in 2010. The conference paper explored a relatively uncharted aspect of the history of Lincoln, the story of the Ermine, as well as made reference to a wider historiographical context concerning the development of local history and approaches to the local historical study of the twentieth century. This article, developing upon the conference paper, brings together a number of lines of enquiry opened up by the case-study explorations on the Ermine.","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128325368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Provincial newspapers have been used for evidence to investigate the retailing of clothing and textiles in the late eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries, for respectable 'polite' society.2 The primary concern of newspaper advertising during this period has been seen as to influence the consumption of the middle classes. The lists of the newest fashionable goods were detailed at length in advertisements, not only promoting novelties, but also giving the consumer an idea about the status and layout of the shops, usually located in the main streets of a town.3 This article will offer a different perspective by investigating advertisements placed by ready-made clothing retailers, in two provincial newspapers. Ready-made clothing retailers, also known as clothes dealers and salesmen, were associated with low-status, cheap, functional clothing. Some also dealt in second-hand clothing and often took goods in exchange to facilitate transactions.4 By examining to whom ready-made clothing sellers directed their advertisements, insights into the readership of the newspapers can be gained. This article will suggest that such provincial county newspapers had an ordinary working-class readership during the first half of the nineteenth century, as they appear to have been the target of clothing advertisements by ready-made clothing retailers. In addition, the advertisements reveal hitherto unknown local businesses, particularly manufacturing concerns, which the newspaper helped to promote, and in doing so, fostered a local trade identity.
{"title":"Ready-Made Clothing Advertisements in Two Provincial Newspapers, 1800–1850","authors":"A. Toplis","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2009.5.1.85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2009.5.1.85","url":null,"abstract":"Provincial newspapers have been used for evidence to investigate the retailing of clothing and textiles in the late eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries, for respectable 'polite' society.2 The primary concern of newspaper advertising during this period has been seen as to influence the consumption of the middle classes. The lists of the newest fashionable goods were detailed at length in advertisements, not only promoting novelties, but also giving the consumer an idea about the status and layout of the shops, usually located in the main streets of a town.3 This article will offer a different perspective by investigating advertisements placed by ready-made clothing retailers, in two provincial newspapers. Ready-made clothing retailers, also known as clothes dealers and salesmen, were associated with low-status, cheap, functional clothing. Some also dealt in second-hand clothing and often took goods in exchange to facilitate transactions.4 By examining to whom ready-made clothing sellers directed their advertisements, insights into the readership of the newspapers can be gained. This article will suggest that such provincial county newspapers had an ordinary working-class readership during the first half of the nineteenth century, as they appear to have been the target of clothing advertisements by ready-made clothing retailers. In addition, the advertisements reveal hitherto unknown local businesses, particularly manufacturing concerns, which the newspaper helped to promote, and in doing so, fostered a local trade identity.","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128883664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2009-01-01DOI: 10.1179/jrl.2009.5.1.104
F. Milton
Hitherto Newspapers, while addressing themselves to the Family Circle, have contained little of real interest and pleasure for Girls and Boys, who, although called upon to read the paper for the benefit of others, seldom find anything in it to suit their own tastes and feelings. As regards the Aberdeen Weekly Journal, this will no longer be the case. Arrangements have been made for publishing every week a column or more ofparticular interest to young people, dealing with all kinds of subjects, which they are sure to think about, and like to read about. 1
{"title":"Uncle Toby's Legacy: Children's Columns in the Provincial Newspaper Press, 1873–1914","authors":"F. Milton","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2009.5.1.104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2009.5.1.104","url":null,"abstract":"Hitherto Newspapers, while addressing themselves to the Family Circle, have contained little of real interest and pleasure for Girls and Boys, who, although called upon to read the paper for the benefit of others, seldom find anything in it to suit their own tastes and feelings. As regards the Aberdeen Weekly Journal, this will no longer be the case. Arrangements have been made for publishing every week a column or more ofparticular interest to young people, dealing with all kinds of subjects, which they are sure to think about, and like to read about. 1","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130975138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2009.5.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2009.5.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115320251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In the 1990 edited volume Investigating Victorian Journalism Michael Harris argued that the absence of London local newspapers 'from most views of the Victorian press seriously distorts the general picture' .1 His essay went on to describe some of the problems facing historians of the London local press, including the difficult subdivisions of London's political and community landscape and the loss of many of the publication records due to complex merger patterns. His complaint stands largely unanswered almost twenty years on, and the problems he identifies remain largely untackled. London's local history in general is under-researched, and newspapers are just one aspect of this; although some individual local studies have emerged since 1990 London local newspaper research has not kept up with the advances in other areas of newspaper history. Brake, Bell and Finkelstein's NineteenthCentury Media and the Construction of Identities (2000) discusses a wide variety of issues of personal, group, national and political identity, and they argue strongly for the interesting and appealing idea of a periodical text as a 'site for competing voices'.2 However, the volume still gives very little space to the idea of place identity on a small scale. In fact, Harris's arguments for the London local press are merely an extreme case for regional, provincial and local newspapers in general. The huge number of different titles, the difficulty of tracing related sources and the physical and temporal drawbacks of studying long print-runs make local newspaper research a sometimes daunting proposition. Yet local newspapers are often not merely the best available source for local history and community identity, but the only available source.
{"title":"Local Newspapers and the Shaping of Local Identity in North-East London, c.1885–1925","authors":"M. Lester","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2009.5.1.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2009.5.1.44","url":null,"abstract":"In the 1990 edited volume Investigating Victorian Journalism Michael Harris argued that the absence of London local newspapers 'from most views of the Victorian press seriously distorts the general picture' .1 His essay went on to describe some of the problems facing historians of the London local press, including the difficult subdivisions of London's political and community landscape and the loss of many of the publication records due to complex merger patterns. His complaint stands largely unanswered almost twenty years on, and the problems he identifies remain largely untackled. London's local history in general is under-researched, and newspapers are just one aspect of this; although some individual local studies have emerged since 1990 London local newspaper research has not kept up with the advances in other areas of newspaper history. Brake, Bell and Finkelstein's NineteenthCentury Media and the Construction of Identities (2000) discusses a wide variety of issues of personal, group, national and political identity, and they argue strongly for the interesting and appealing idea of a periodical text as a 'site for competing voices'.2 However, the volume still gives very little space to the idea of place identity on a small scale. In fact, Harris's arguments for the London local press are merely an extreme case for regional, provincial and local newspapers in general. The huge number of different titles, the difficulty of tracing related sources and the physical and temporal drawbacks of studying long print-runs make local newspaper research a sometimes daunting proposition. Yet local newspapers are often not merely the best available source for local history and community identity, but the only available source.","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128713306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In specialist newspaper coverage of football between the 1880s and 1910s, two of provincial England's most vibrant cultural products were brought together. From 1870 onwards many provincial newspapers enjoyed enormous popularity.1 National daily papers from London were yet to dominate the market and the local press occupied an important role in provincial life. Association football (hereafter football) had become a major participant sport and England's most popular spectator sport. By 1915 few major urban centres were without their own professional football team and in 1913, 15 clubs attracted over 20,000 fans on average each Saturday.2
{"title":"Football Coverage in the Papers of the Sheffield Telegraph, c.1890–1915","authors":"A. Jackson","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2009.5.1.63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2009.5.1.63","url":null,"abstract":"In specialist newspaper coverage of football between the 1880s and 1910s, two of provincial England's most vibrant cultural products were brought together. From 1870 onwards many provincial newspapers enjoyed enormous popularity.1 National daily papers from London were yet to dominate the market and the local press occupied an important role in provincial life. Association football (hereafter football) had become a major participant sport and England's most popular spectator sport. By 1915 few major urban centres were without their own professional football team and in 1913, 15 clubs attracted over 20,000 fans on average each Saturday.2","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131405397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Introduction This article suggests that using twenty -first-century ideas about the provincial and the national press are not appropriate when looking at its nineteenthcentury counterpart. 'National' newspapers were less national than has generally been assumed, while provincial papers were less provincial, and more national, than assumed. This has been acknowledged in some recent scholarship, but not analysed in detail, and the implications have not been drawn out: if we treat the nineteenth-century provincial press as a national network and a national system, it becomes much more significant, and more deserving of further study, with many implications for the history of nineteenth-century print culture in particular, and social and cultural history in general.
{"title":"When the Provincial Press was the National Press (c.1836-c.1900)","authors":"Andrew Hobbs","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2009.5.1.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2009.5.1.16","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction This article suggests that using twenty -first-century ideas about the provincial and the national press are not appropriate when looking at its nineteenthcentury counterpart. 'National' newspapers were less national than has generally been assumed, while provincial papers were less provincial, and more national, than assumed. This has been acknowledged in some recent scholarship, but not analysed in detail, and the implications have not been drawn out: if we treat the nineteenth-century provincial press as a national network and a national system, it becomes much more significant, and more deserving of further study, with many implications for the history of nineteenth-century print culture in particular, and social and cultural history in general.","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"367 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121408476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crawfish, Better Bigots and Hooch Handlers: Mississippi through the Eyes of P.D. East","authors":"E. Christian","doi":"10.1179/JRL.2008.4.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/JRL.2008.4.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115170984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
What is it about? In the early 1800s, Scottish ship owners began to aggressively advertise to emigrants going to North America and Australia. This article explores how the number and style of these passage advertisements changed from an occasional, passive mention to a cluttered front-page of sophisticated marketing ploys. Why is this important? By examining, and counting, passage advertisements in rural Scotland, this article helps us understand the demand for emigration at the start of the 19th century. Instead of major ports, with established passage routes, it focuses on the smaller ports of Eyemouth, Dumfries and Kirkcudbright -- all of which made hasty modifications to transform their timber-carrying holds into passage accommodation. Their efforts to capitalise on an emerge market help us understand how that market evolved.
{"title":"‘Passengers Wishing to Embrace this Commodious Conveyance, Will Apply Immediately’: The Rise in Emigrant Passage Advertising in the Scottish Borders, 1800–1830","authors":"M. Beals","doi":"10.1179/JRL.2008.4.1.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/JRL.2008.4.1.21","url":null,"abstract":"What is it about?\u0000\u0000In the early 1800s, Scottish ship owners began to aggressively advertise to emigrants going to North America and Australia. This article explores how the number and style of these passage advertisements changed from an occasional, passive mention to a cluttered front-page of sophisticated marketing ploys.\u0000Why is this important?\u0000\u0000By examining, and counting, passage advertisements in rural Scotland, this article helps us understand the demand for emigration at the start of the 19th century. Instead of major ports, with established passage routes, it focuses on the smaller ports of Eyemouth, Dumfries and Kirkcudbright -- all of which made hasty modifications to transform their timber-carrying holds into passage accommodation. Their efforts to capitalise on an emerge market help us understand how that market evolved.","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126828999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contributors","authors":"Willie Morris, Hideaki Inui, C. Silva","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2008.4.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2008.4.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127962135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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