My PhD focuses on short-lived nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals, aiming to reassess conventional ideas of success and failure in the nineteenth-century press. Working with the British Library\u2019s newspaper collections and combining data analysis approaches with detailed case studies, I have sought to challenge orthodox views of \u2018success\u2019 that have been associated primarily with long-running, London-centred newspapers. I argue that, collectively, short-lived newspapers represent a substantial proportion of the papers in print throughout the century and are therefore a critically-overlooked segment of the press as experienced by contemporary readers. I explore how the nineteenth century\u2019s fundamental instability was reflected in its newspapers, which appeared, adapted, merged and disappeared in bewildering numbers. Dismissing substantial numbers of shorter-lived papers as de facto<\/em> failures places historical scholarship in danger of misrepresenting the complexity of the press experienced by nineteenth-century readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have presented at…<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2025 Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Conference, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, USA. Title of paper: ‘A Brief Spell of Enthusiasm: The Fonetic Nuz <\/em>and the Vision of English Spelling Reform’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2024 Research Society for Victorian Periodicals conference, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK. Title of paper: ‘An ill wind from the west: The role of America in the fate of the Illustrated news of the world, <\/em>1858-1863′.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 2023 ESPRit (European Society for Periodicals Research) conference, Leeds, UK. Title of Paper: ‘Scanning the horizon: What can a distance-reading methodology reveal about the motivations for founding newspapers in the nineteenth century?’<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2022 Research Society for Victorian Periodicals conference (virtual). Title of Paper: ‘Only the ephemeral is of lasting value: How short-lived newspapers offer new perspectives on the history of the nineteenth-century press’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1) \u2018The Long and Short of it: rethinking the longevity of nineteenth-century periodicals\u2019 \u2013 winner of the 2023 Rosemary VanArdsel Prize awarded Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. PhD Project: Short lived newspapers My PhD focuses on short-lived nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals, aiming to reassess conventional ideas of success and failure in the nineteenth-century press. Working with the British Library\u2019s newspaper collections and combining data analysis approaches with detailed case studies, I have sought to challenge orthodox views of \u2018success\u2019 that have been … <\/p>\nConference Papers <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Published in Victorian Periodicals Review<\/em>, 57:1&2, Spring\/Summer 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"