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THE EVOLUTION OF BRITISH NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS IN THE 18th CENTURY

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Blue:1713Purple:1750Yellow:1801

Newspaper circulation

Donut graph of newspaper

Topics in newspapers

-social news-political news-essays-articles-book and theatre reviews-letters-variety of advertisments

-Daily Courant, 11th March 1702-evening paper: Evening Post(1709-1732), Whitewall Evening Post(1718-1801)-Periodicals: the Tatler(1709-1711) and the Spectator(1711-1712)-Nathaniel Mist's Saturday's Post(1716-1725)+the Craftsman(1727-1750) not free from government control:Stamp Acts(1712 and 1725) and Walpole-Daily Gazetteer(1735-1746)-Universal Spectator(1728-1746)+the acerbic Grub Street Journal(1730-1737)

INNOVATION AND EVOLUTION OF NEWSPAPER

-smaller format of newspaper :London Chronicle(1757-1765)-Daily newspaper:Daily Post(1719-1746), The Gazzetteer and London Daily Advertiser(1753-1769),The Public Advertiser(1752-1794)-Morning papers: The Morning Chronicle(1769-1862), The Morning Post(1772-1937) and the Morning Herald(1780-1869) -Evening Daily: the Star(1788-1831)

MID 18th CENTURY

END OF 18th CENURY: competition increased, self-consciousness of the appeareance. John Bell: The World(1787-1794)

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