Andrew Hobbs
@drewhobbs
Historian of the provincial press,looking at how 19C local papers and 20C county magazines express our sense of place. Despairing socialist.
Checking final proofs of vol 2 (1891-1912) of The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, provincial journalist They'll be published open-access with @openbookpublish.bsky.social next month (August) www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
Example of her analysis of concept of "wildness", subcategory of feelings and [?] #RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion
Has moved on from seeing books as fixed objects, more as processes, now she is thinking about entanglement of objects and infrastructures #RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion
#RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion Cites Michael Wolf, foundational periodicals scholar, for her point: wants to look at our scholarly infrastructure as an object of study, as well as using it for her research
#RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion Wolff Lecture 2026, Katherine Bode: Moving types: Irishness, migration, and machine learning in digital periodical studies Great intro from Alison Chamberlain, who says Katherine's books have rocked her world.
#RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion Periodicals also took part in the exoticisation and diminuition of non-English languages. Case study: annual volume of the Graphic, revealing many languages, although dominated by English
#RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion This incident revealed different views of who should be included in the colonial public sphere (according to racial difference), including the idea that British ideas of press liberty needed to be modified to maintain colonial rule
#RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion Woman Worker (1916-21) was more concerned with international matters than the other 2 mags, stressed that women were part of an international community with similar aims
#RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion Looking at 3 women's trade union journals, how they represented international events Women's Union Journal, 1876-1890, penny monthly, included poetry, biography, reviews as well as union news -- and international news, e.g. working conditions, suffrage, in Germany, US
#RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion She takes as case study a Felicity Hemans poem, 'Song of Emigration', published in Blackwood's mag, 1827, ambiguous poem, mixing husband's optimism and wife's sorrow (pic of Hemans memorial, St Ann's church, Dublin)
For foreign correspondents, she looked at Harriet Ward (South Africa) and Harriet Martineau (Ireland, anti-slavery). She also looked at fictional representations of female journalists (see pic). She found the idea of these women as role-models useful. #RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion
#RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion For mainstream journalism, she looked at Eliza Meteyard and Frances Power Cobbe
Anne-Marie counted translated excerpts in book reviews in Athenaeum, and analysed them. Differing views of how to translate. #RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion
She had already run a 'School of Fiction' in Atalanta magazine, from 1892, with monthly instructional essays, prizes, etc. Later collected into a book. #RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion
e.g. Arabella Goddard article, "How to play the piano", Lady Benedict, "How to improve your piano playing" -- such articles urged moral and intellectual development, as well as musical skill #RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion
Trinity College Dublin, hosting this year's Research Society for Victorian Periodicals conference, the world's premier gathering of 19th-century magazine and newspaper geeks -- proud to be part of it #RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion
Today I'll be talking about the silences and distortions of 19C Liverpool newspapers re the city's history of slave trading, as a case study of historical writing in the local press. And generally, more history was published in local papers than in books. Fight me. zoom.us/meeting/regi...
I have 2 of these Preston bus station butter dishes for sale, handmade by a professional potter (not me). Choice of 2 colours. £130 each. Admire the Brutalist masterpiece whilst buttering your toast. DM me for orders.
Watching an interesting talk by folklore historian Simon Young about Rochdale's 18C/19C supernatural creature, the Baum Rabbit
Can anyone decipher the signature, top right of this image of Starbotton, Wharfedale, from Yorkshire Illustrated magazine Dec 1948? @kristinbluemel.bsky.social ?
Starting work on vol.2 of the Hewitson diaries (thanks to David Shrigley)
Management studies has recently invented the discipline of history. Hurrah. doi.org/10.1177/0149...
Advertising art selling petrol to antiquaries, 1934 (Clifford & Rosemary Ellis)