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The Dawn of the Cheap Press in Victorian Britain - The End of the 'Taxes on Knowledge', 1849-1869 (Hardcover, New)
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The Dawn of the Cheap Press in Victorian Britain - The End of the 'Taxes on Knowledge', 1849-1869 (Hardcover, New)
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"The Dawn of the Cheap Press" provides the first detailed study of
the mid-Victorian campaign for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge
for over a hundred years. Using the recently discovered papers of
the Association for the Promotion of the Repeal of the Taxes on
Knowledge and taking advantage of new forms of research made
possible by the digitisation of nineteenth century newspapers, it
assesses the impact of the removal of the last surviving legal
disabilities on the newspaper industry, the nature of journalism,
and the cultures and practices of newspaper reading. The book
demonstrates that the campaign against the taxes on knowledge
retained broad popular appeal, and played an important role in the
politics of mid-Victorian budgets. It not only makes a seminal
contribution to the history of the nineteenth century press and
print culture, but also illuminates the culture and politics of
mid-Victorian Britain, offers an important re-reading of the
history of extra-parliamentary pressure group politics and provides
new insights into the origins of Gladstonian Liberalism.
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